It's a big World Wide Web out there, so let's support dotscot on St Andrew's Day

Dot Scot is the campaign to get Scotland its own domain name on the internet.  It shouldn't really be too difficult, with the proliferation of .nets and .orgs.

Catalonia already has its own, which is great for business, culture and tourism. It's a big world wide web out there and the more distinctive you are the better. It's also a great way of uniting the Scottish diaspora, linking a world wide family with affinity to the country.

If the campaign is successful then this site's url could be www.golassiego.scot

That would be a particular boon to me as the .com version of golassiego has been snapped up by an Irish tourism initiative. (the site's current url is www.joanmcalpine.com) 

To celebrate St Andrew's Day the campaign Dot Scot Registry has launched a new website to track support. The site also answers the most frequently asked questions about '.scot'. 

The site can be found at http://www.dotscot.net/ .

The more supporters they can sign up the better so please do register...and send the link on to your friends and encourage them to support '.scot'.

Comments

[Kwitie]

Country codes are assigned on two letter domain.
au - Australia
nz - New Zealand.
dd - East Germany (never used)

and so on.

So Scotland should push for a tld rather than a .sco/.scot
Given that sc,st,so etc are taken perhaps we should use .ab for Alba?
The only other competitor might be Alberta in Canada?

[Suq]

I like .scot after thinking about it.

Few places can have their designation spelt out in a short domain name into the bargain.

I definitely would get a few.

[cynicalHighlander]

This is also worth passing on.

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2010/11/30/important-announcement-an-independence-referendum-will-take-place-on-5th-may-2011/

[Hamish Scott]

I'd have preferred it if they kept to sco rather than scot but the important thing is to get a top level domain. Of course the Labour/LibDem coalition government at Holyrood pre-2007 wouldn't back it, a nother good example of their role in suppressing our nationhood to at least manageable levels.