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what about .me ?

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Are you a citizen of Montenegro? If you are, feel free to use it! Otherwise, I suggest that you use something else.

Hello,

I am an official representarive of the Balkan countries. A non-negligable chunk of our GDP is based on random Rust projects using Serbia's .rs and of course .me. If you stop using our TLDs our ecobomies will collapse.

Kind regards,

The Balkans

Serbians should really let go of the idea they can speak for all Balkan nations.

-- Sincerely, Everyone Else

Suddenly Bismark's remark about bad things coming "[...] out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans" is echoing in my head.

Fine by me.

Old article about how big of an export it is: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/10/me-10-years-and-two-percen...

"feel free to use it"

I feel free with my .co domain and I'm not a citizen of Colombia TYVM.

Good luck with that. What happens when there’s a dispute with a Colombian entity who wants your domain? Who do you think will have the advantage? Would you trust the Colombian registry and courts to favor you?

They could take the dispute to the UN internet court for domain names, whatever it's called. I can't see why that would apply only to the TLDs that existed 20 years ago.

You’re thinking of WIPO, perhaps? IIUC, they can’t interfere in the affairs of a ccTLD registry unless invited to do so. So if the Colombian authorities says you lose your domain to some local Colombian outfit, then you lose.

I was thinking of WIPO, and that's interesting that they have to be invited. I guess someone could always establish a cheap LLC there if they really wanted protection.

> .me is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Montenegro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.me

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