I'm glad someone else is worried about this. For some reason Catalans are very special and love tlds. For example in BCN one is within the geometric catchment for:
- .barcelona
- .cat
- .es
- .eu
I don't think any other settlement on earth is so blessed.
For what it's worth, the registrar for .cat (Nominalia) isn't very strict
The status of Catalonia is an enormously controversial issue. In 2017 the government of Catalonia declared independence from Spain, resulting in the Catalonian government being forcibly deposed by the Spanish government, which is opposed to Catalonian independence regardless of the wishes of the Catalonians.
So it's not that surprising they would want their own, .scot is a similar situation.
Scotland is only a "country" by the UK's totally weird definition of the word. It's not that different from Niedersachsen or Alabama or, indeed, Catalonia in that it has its own parliament etc but it's not independent.
In the UK (and in pro football, somehow), "country" appears to mean "either a member of the UN or a federal state of the UK"
If it is a weird definition, it's a well-recognised one. Take the second sentence of the relevant Wikipedia page:
"A country may be an independent sovereign state or part of a larger state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country
Absolutely. The Soviet Union may be dormant, but they'll happily give you a domain, presumably it's possible to have a website that's relevant to it after its supposed demise.
It's also in "de facto" use by the CIS[0] successor organisation.
> .bcn domain is intended to maintain a relationship of "cooperation and sum of efforts" with the .cat domain
I wanted to learn why this TLD exists but I didn't understand the explanation. What does cooperating with another TLD mean and can I use it for bacon stuff?
Even more, I suspect the reading as “nyan” was actually accidental, the onomatopoeia is usually just “nya” if I recall correctly.
Which is easy to understand. The music in the background of the “Nyancat” video is actually produced with UTAU, a sort of offshoot of Vocaloid, the voice synthesis software, using an “UTAUloid” called Momo, with the song being entitled “Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!”. It seems that “Nyan” resulted from parsing it out of the sequential “nya”s.
It’s kind of fascinating how the “poptart cat” gif and the UTAU song somehow ended up merged into this bizarre internet phenomena.
I also wonder if its at least partly (presumably, subconsciously) the adoption of the -an suffix (as adjective marker) from English: note the noun in use is almost always nyan cat / nyancat, so nyan is serving something of an adjectival role.
It's fascinating the wash back and forth across morphologically unrelated languages.
In that sense, is it actually being used as an adjective proper? This is amusing. I would’ve assumed it was just an accident, but it would be more amusing if it was both accidental and “sort of” grammatically correct.
Sorry, I meant the “nyan” in “nyanko”, being an adjective. But thinking about it more, the added “n” syllable probably has more to do with phonetics than language semantics. I studied only basic Japanese and now am pretty rusty.
The situation is much worse for the dogs in Ukraine as after passing of the new language law they can't bark "ghav-ghav" in Russian anymore and must instead bark "dzyav-dzyav" in Ukrainian.
So, a website has to have Catalan content in order to be eligible to use .cat? Couldn't someone just hire translators and/or make friends with Catalan-speaking people to translate some English content to Catalan.
I think they want the person who owns the domain to be Catalan, and since the Spanish government doesn't want Catalonia to be recognized as an independent place, the language used is a proxy for being from there. I think they might try and limit it to people who speak Catalan.
I feel this is an appropriate place for a shameless plug about my website, http://ipkitten.com. It offers valuable IPv4 information while also offering a kitten GIF. No ads, no tracking; just cats and IP addresses. Zero lines of Javascript.
I wouldn't say there is no tracking at all. There might be no tracking by you and there certainly is no Javascript tracking applied, both of which is better than >90% websites out there, but you use two external resources, first bootstrapcdn for css and second giphy for the kitten gif. Those web sites get data for each request, including ip address, user agent and (possibly / if the browser supports it) cookie information.
giphy is a startup that is monetized via ads while bootstrapcdn's privacy policy explicitly states that it uses the ip address and user agent information for targeted advertisement [1]. As you are using a deeplink, you might avoid giphy's tracking which might only be js based, but one can never know. bootstrapcdn was built to be used as a CDN so they will definitely use the data that servers get for tracking.
So don't visit this website too often unless you want to see cat food ads :). Or IDK.
I don't think there is a big benefit from using a CDN for the CSS file, but self hosting the kitten picture means of course a big increase of traffic and idk how it looks like from a license point of view. I have no idea what a privacy friendly kitten picture hosting service would be.
It doesn't handle non-US countries particularly well. It found my city, and the post code is close by (2000), but then the query in the Google Maps URL is just "2000". How will that get me here? Maybe add the country code to the Google Maps URL, e.g. "<country code> <post code>"?
Otherwise, appropriate shameless plug. I only mention the above, because I could see myself making use of it.
Thanks for the quick change. That's definitely better.
Unfortunately, most European countries aren't federal states, and so dividing them by "state" (more like region, county, department or province) makes little sense. Although, that being said, I am confident that Google would find "2000 Capital Region" correctly, no matter where I search from. (Can't really test it, since Google is clever enough to base the post code on where I'm searching from.)
I am able to be neither a beggar nor a chooser with the API that I am leveraging to geo-code the IP addresses, because I am not paying for it! Either way, thank you for letting me know about non-US use-cases.
That's good. I've been using jsonip but I think I'll switch to yours, because it's still nice and minimal! It's good to have the geoip even though it's inaccurate. Right now geoip thinks I'm in Ft Lauderdale when I'm actually in Miami.
This server could not prove that it is ipkitten.com;
its security certificate is from
cambridgecamps.paytrax.com.
This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an
attacker intercepting your connection.
Unofficial Codes....420 Enhance Your Calm (Twitter)Returned by version 1 of the Twitter Search and TrendsAPI when the client is being rate limited;versions 1.1 and later use the 429 Too Many Requestsresponse code instead.[74]
I use it regularly as a quick way to look up status codes. If some log just shows http 418, typing http.cat/418 is the fastest way I've found to get the corresponding message.
> Resta prohibit explícitament per la ICANN la utilització del domini .cat per a pàgines de gats (cat en anglès), llevat que siguin en català o tinguin a veure amb la cultura catalana.
It's explicitly forbbiden by ICANN the use of .cat domain for pages about cats, unless are in catalan [language] or it has to do with catalan culture.
I've found that one to have a useful purpose in a very specific situation, ie. an endpoint merged with another one and the behavior is sufficiently different that the service replying to the request is not what the requester had in mind. Yes versioning would have prevented that but in our setup, it was not possible.
Poking around, it has a catalan translation, but not a spanish or french translation. https://http.cat/?lang=cat https://http.cat/?lang=es https://http.cat/?lang=fr
Edit: http://nyan.cat/ has a catalan version too (català). Apparently you've been nyaning is has nyanyejat in catalan:
"HAS NYANYEJAT DURANT 117.6 SEGONS Tweet Your Score"