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Comment by potatosalad99 | Hacker News Reader

I love how there is a Catalan version too! I guess it’s probably a requirement for getting the .cat domain.

> Administered by the non-profit Fundació puntCAT under the oversight of ICANN, registrations are available only to individuals and organizations demonstrating use or promotion of the Catalan language and culture.

Is that available for every country root server?

As far as I can tell, there is no rule requiring this wiki to be kept up to date (it's not run by ICANN, though they sponsor it), but I've had good luck with it. The wiki is updated fairly frequently: https://icannwiki.org/Special:RecentChanges . I wasn't able to find a list that proves it covers every TLD but there are about 9x as many articles as TLDs, so I think it's likely. Someone with better MediaWiki chops could probably figure it out. I think that information is there I just don't know how to access it.

ETA: This category lists 314 ccTLDs.

https://icannwiki.org/Category:CcTLD

There are 316 ccTLDs. So; it's either missing 2, or they are documented but not in the right category.

If you're looking for an authoritative source I think you should check out the PSL, but it doesn't have the right metadata to answer your question. You'd need to supplement it somehow.

https://publicsuffix.org/

Does look to be the case.

nyan.cat has a language picker that includes Catalan, even though it just changes the page title.

Imho it's pretty messed up that their translation tool doesn't actually translate the page and only translates one element. For the most part the site is a lark and the text unimportant. But the banner disclaiming any affiliation with any meme coin really ought to be translated.

The funny thing is that upon registration of a .cat domain you are required to acknowledge that your website is not related to cats at all. So those domains are, in theory, not in compliance.

But what if it's a Catalan cat charity?

They don't ask you to "acknowledge that your website is not related to cats at all", they're asking you to confirm that the website "serve(s) the needs of the Catalan Linguistic and Cultural Community on the Internet" by entering what the intended use is. Signed, owner of emsh.cat.

One could say by having the websites become popular and viral, and offering versions of the their websites in Catalan, they are spreading Catalan culture to more parts of the internet. We're having a discussiong about it right now, others are reading, pretty big impact from just the TLD choice :)

https://http.cat/ca

I used to own long.cat and I never bothered

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