Catalan on the Internet and the .ct and .cat campaigns

Bibliographic Data

ID7446948
AuthorsDavid Atkinson (0000-0003-2082-0236, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume5
Issue2
Pages239-249
Publication date2006-09-15
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.5.2.06atk
OpenAlexW1965849518
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited8

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, divides the World Wide Web geographically, assigning country suffixes to states to be used in web addresses for sites on their territory. This paper reports on the campaign in Catalonia to have the right to use .ct as the territorial domain name for sites in Catalonia. The bid has been countered by the central government in Madrid and the argument is ongoing. In the interim, ICANN have assigned the .cat suffix. This recognises the linguistic, cultural and ethnic group as a web entity without going as far as to give them the same web standing as a sovereign state

Argument (complex analysis · Catalan · Corporation · Domain name · Ethnic group · Geography · Government (linguistics · Interim · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sovereignty · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Medicine · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Media and Politics · Law

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