El Reg protests North Korean internet domain The Register isn't too happy about last week's news that North Korea is poised to register its own Internet domain. No, we don't have a problem with the communist stronghold joining our nothing-less-than-capitalistic worldwide party, first reported by The Associated Press. But we do take issue with its choice of domain name. …
Kinda reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Homer is pondering all the potholes involved in giving his newborn son a name which could be made to rhyme with unfortunate things by his future schoolmates. Then he goes: 'Bart? Hmmm... Cart, Dart... ...Eee-art... Nope - can't see anything wrong with that!'
And in other news: how about a "PO-FACED WANNABE CURTAIN-TWITCHING PRIGS WHO CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING BETTER TO DO THAN TO GO ONLINE AND ADVERTISE HIS INABILITY TO GET THIS THING YOU HUMANS CALL H-U-M-O-U-R ALERT". Trips off the tongue and would avoid this frightful sort misunderestanding happening in the first place, don't you know.
Get a life, dude, sheesh.
KP presumably is some mutant version of "Korean People's Republic" given than country codes are usually two letters, (have they registered "kpr" too - so we can get www.yahoo.kpr ?). Downside is that "kpr" sounds awful like "crapper". ;)
On a less serious note, was ".kp" chosen because:
(a) it's one character ahead of their capitalist brothers in the south, who have ".kr"; or
(b) it's a tribute to the "Great Leader" (or whatever his title this month), with ".kp" standing for "Kim's Place".
Just a thought....
North Korea could never accept .nk, just as south Korea couldnt accept .sk
Both do not recognise the right of the other to exist. They both claim themselves to be the only legitamate authority of the entirity of korea.
By accepting a n or s in their names, they accept that the other exists. Which they do not.
Plus neither N or S korea call themselves that. Neither North or South appears in their names
"I think the point is that those who can't spot a joke are more likely to be American, not that all Americans can't spot jokes."
As a former professional entertainer*, I have to tell you that the British are the best people in the world to have in the audience during a comic's act; they laugh at every joke three times. You see, the British culture (at least of those sufficiently well-off to purchase an admission ticket) has taught then to be unfailingly polite. Thus, whenever a comic tells a joke, the Brits laugh, because they are so polite. Then when the comic explains the joke, the Brits laugh, because they are so polite. And an hour later, the Brits laugh, when they "get it."
* - Stnad-up comic, children's clown, US Army Mech Infantry Bradley commander, IT tech, Web hosting company CEO... I'm a man for all sorts of comedy.
I was thinking that South Korea (.kr) grabbed the English shorthand for the whole of "Korea", thereby pissing off North Korea (.kp) who elected to make a go for the English shorthand for the whole "Korean Peninsula".
But then I followed Simon's lead and noticed that "kr" is South Korea's ISO country code and "kp" is North Korea's ISO country code. Both codes are based on English, of course. So it's kind of a non-issue ... except for the humor.
KP actually stands for "Korean Prison" which is how that country treats it people. As usual, I can only hope that the "accident" will obliterate the leaders and let those in the south take over. Il (or whatever you say it) eventually will be "taken out" probably by his own people.
I seriously doubt that anyone will do anything with the domain name anyway. On the other hand, we should start a country with the initials NK just to have silly domain names. It is a growth industry.
were meant to be funny sorry this story
isn't funny so the humor is not a factor either
right up there with all those jokes about ICANN
I just can't laugh at tld's they aren't humor material
the jokes just stillborn a dead field of non-humor aside
from the snorting buck toothed brits laughing at this
inane crap which is more funny unsetteling than funny
haha. What next risable content about EMT storage or
possibly some laughs about DBM's. Somebody needs to
wipe the drool off and go back to crawl space where he
lives and think about what he's done. Inbred cretins.
Of course the article was just a brilliant piece, to prove that The Register sometimes can also be ridiculous intentionally. However, as some hinted, it's the case to remind that ICANN does not pick the 2-letter code, nor does the country itself (at least during the domain name delegation procedure). ISO does. Codes usually follow official country names as far as possible, hence the K for Korea and the P for Popular.
It's called humour, guys. OK, so it may not be funny to some people, fair enough. Now move along. Nothing more to see heer.
Oh and whoever
is writing like
this without using any grammar in his struct
ure, please, for the love of god, stop it! Learn how
to punctuate, and how to structure sentences correctly. (And
possibly, the correct use of the return key as well)
;)
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