Serbia still without internet code

Serbia’s internet community believes the code “SP” in no way relates to the country.

Izvor: B92

Thursday, 07.09.2006.

11:07

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Serbia still without internet code

“When someone decides to search for an item from Serbia, or Croatia or the UK for that matter, it is advisable for the domain to logically represent the country. Now, who will ever think of Serbia when they read “SP”? Hardly anyone will”, B92’s IT expert Vladimir Ječmenić explains.

Earlier, Serbian government submitted a request to ISO to be allocated the “RS” internet domain, signifying the country’s official name, the Republic of Serbia, but the request was denied, on grounds that a country’s form of government cannot feature in its internet code.

However, some other countries were not subject to the same rules, which resulted in Great Britain using “UK” and Switzerland “CH” as their domain codes. ISO still insists that Serbia must use the “S” as the first letter in any case, while one of the available codes is “SS”. The Foreign Ministry believes this solution should be suitable as it would mean, “Serbs, Serbia”.  “We joined the queue late and we must accept what is available. There are a couple of domains that in a way relate to Serbia. “SS” is the most interesting, but it would produce negative reactions in Serbia, reminding citizens of the WW2”, BBC journalist Zoran Stanojević told B92.

While the government still awaits official information from Geneva on what other options, besides “SS” and “SP”, are available, some internet experts have suggested that Serbia should buy off Suriname’s domain, “SR”, or attempt the same transaction with the Solomon Islands, who own the “SB” code. However, it turns out international rules do not allow for trade in internet domain names.

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