Talk:Country code second-level domain

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I suspect this term is a WP manufacture, as most people on the web seem to copy the definition from here as well.

Consider for example: A ccTLD is:

US

i.e. a country code in the highest level. Logically, a country code second-level domain would be a country code at the second level:

US.COM

but not

COM.US

which is simply a second-level US domain. Indeed there are sites that exactly display a table of country codes underneath another toplevel domain, but copy the WP definition as the heading. See: http://www.hitsol.net/domains/country-code-second-level-domain-ccsld, where the definitions of table header and table entries conflict.

This article needs reliable references that are older than this article itself. It may be observed that WP editors do manufacture terms that get a life on their own because of WP's draw of popular attention. Kbrose (talk) 17:29, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]