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Cat lovers

Would the domain be available for anglophone cat lovers? 85.226.122.237 20:19, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That's specifically forbidden. --217.76.158.230 21:59, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, interesting to know... 85.226.122.205 21:04, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well that sucks. Go to hell, Catalan. 153.42.170.64 (talk) 20:41, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is forbidden by the ICANN, not by us --83.57.42.227 (talk) 16:50, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

damn. when I found out about this TLD, my first thought was that if I ever get a cat I'll register a .cat domain name for him. and this would make such a cool TLD for several domains (e.g. www.schrodingers.cat). they should make it available for cat lovers and finance Catalan cultural institutions from the money they get from the registrations, then everyone would be happy :) – Alensha ^talk 01:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There's this, though: http://nyan.cat/, and I have no idea how did they get the domain name. --HTMLCODER.exe (talk) 14:50, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is an option for Catalan languages, as well as a link to http://www.catalanculture.com/. --92.242.174.195 (talk) 00:34, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, but the rules seem very restrictive according to the article, so I wonder what kind of institution will approve nyan.cat... --Jertonit (talk) 14:16, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Monstercat uses monster.cat to redirect hashed links to external content. I'm sure other sites use it for vaguely cat related content as well. --184.167.52.7 (talk) 13:49, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

When not used as a redirect, the monster.cat website puts a token message of "Monstercat <3 Català" to attempt to comply with the rules. They aren't the only site that does this stunt.

Gibraltar

"Spain claims sovereignty over the Gibraltar, and is not enthusiatic about this, since it might be seen as a sort of endorsement to legitimacy of Gibraltar to exist the way it is."

Doesn't GB claim sovereignty over Gibraltar? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Filthy swine (talk • contribs) 05:34, 3 May 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Yes, or so says Wikipaedia. Possibly they meant Great Britain rather than Spain? I'm not sure of the current state of affairs concerning that, so I wouldn't really know... I'll change it, revert if necessary/incorrect... --Laogeodritt 15:13, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, you've got it wrong. Gibraltar is currently an overseas territory of the UK, and Spain would like it to belong to Spain's territory, yet it doesn't. —Nightstallion (?) 22:14, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. I'm the guy who originally wrote the stuff about Girona's website. I meant that Spain asks for/demands/begs/however-you-name-it (depending on your ideological point of view) the sovereignty over Gibraltar. Sure, "claim" wasn't the appropiate verb to use, since it can be understood as "it has legal ownernishp over Gibraltar", which is of course untrue. Maybe I should have written "The Spanish State, which unsuccessfully claims the sovereignty over the Rock (...)". I thought that was implicit, but it obviously wasn't. I beg you'll all pardon me for the confusion I might have created. --80.32.95.147 18:43, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS: Wow, this went all the way to the Nederlandse versie and the Polish one of the article! Sorry I can't speak Polish. At least I'll warn the nl: one...

Precedent

This domain sets a precedent which could lead to a flood of claims for domain names for all manner of proposed states, secessionist regions, micronations, autonomous zones and disputed territories. If Catalonia gets its own domain then why not Kurdistan, Transnistria, Chechnya, Euskadi (Basque), Puerto Rico or Sealand —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.113.64.28 (talk • contribs) 21:27, 7 May 2006 (UTC).[reply]

So, it is wrong to have domain names such as .gi or .hk then? .cat is a cultural, not geographical domain. What would be controvesial is the propossed bid for a .ct domain (which the spanish goverment explicity opposes).Thewikipedian 09:57, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, why not? Is there any problem with that? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.2.198.89 (talk • contribs) 17:57, 9 June 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Puerto Rico already has a ccTLD, .pr. *Dan T.* 23:12, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And Scotland won't need the proposed .sco domain, as it'll be independent before the request goes through. ;) —Nightstallion (?) 18:10, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So what? Wikipedia is not a forum (WP:NOT#FORUM).--Galifardeu 13:01, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

first?

From the Catalan article: "In September 2005, the .cat TLD, the first Internet language-based top-level domain, was approved... " So this means, that this was the first tld that is assigned to a language but not a country? I didn't find the sources of the statement in my short search, but if true, would be nice to include here. Anyone knows? Hoemaco (talk) 07:08, 28 March 2011 (UTC) update: I've found the [List_of_Internet_top-level_domains] article and the official list it links. It seems that .cat is actually the only language-based generic TLD - so it could be mentioned as such maybe. Hoemaco (talk) 07:19, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nyan.cat

Perhaps there should be a small section on Nyan.cat? It uses the .cat domain and is available in Catalan, which means it complies with the restrictions set out. The content on the webpage is a 8-bit GIF of the "pop-tart cat" meme, which is quite popular on the internet. Lobsterfinger (talk) 12:31, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I second that motion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.175.80.194 (talk) 21:20, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ccTLD .ad

I think the phrase

Before .cat was available, and given the reluctance of certain Catalan institutions, companies and people to use .es, .ad, .fr, .it domains (depending on the state respectively) for their domains, alternatives emerged.

should not include .ad. I never thought of Andorra as a sort of oppressing state or so for we Catalans. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.50.221.168 (talk) 10:01, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to take a look at the article for Andorra :-) Especially note how it mentions Catalan/Catalonia about forty times... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.105.72.217 (talk) 18:26, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]