Spain's politicians have shelved plans for a .CT country code domain for the Catalan region, which already has a .CAT generic domain.
Barcelona, Catalonia's capital city
The Catalan community must be one of the most active on the web. Having successfully campaigned for the creation of a "generic Top Level Domain" (gTLD) dedicated to their language and their culture: .CAT, they are the first "local" community to have been awarded a specific Internet suffix.
But this, it seems, was not enough. A Catalan parliamentary group recently championed the creation of a "CT" in ISO's list of country codes . Their proposed law would have also requested the creation of a .CT "country code TLD" (ccTLD). Spain's parliament voted against the proposal.
.CT is not .CAT
We asked Amadeu Abril I Abril, former manager of .CAT registry Fundacio PuntCat, about the .CT initiative and the possible confusion it risks causing with the existing .CAT domain. "The aim of .CT was to become Catalonia's ccTLD," Abril I Abril explained. "This is very different from .CAT which from day one has always been a gTLD dedicated to the Catalan community around the world. There's Catalonia itself of course, but also Valencia, Aragon, a town in Sardinia, part of the Pyrenean region… So .CAT's cultural focus is very different from what would have been a more territorial .CT, even if the two domains could have existed side by side."
Opened in 2008, .CAT has now been active for going on two years. Some 28,000 .CAT domains have been registered.
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