Eugine_Nier comments on Open thread, 9-15 June 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: asr 30 June 2014 02:12:35AM 1 point [-]

Having a top-level domain doesn't make an entity a country. Lots of indisputably non-countries have top-level domains. Nobody thinks the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a country, and yet .gg exists.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 30 June 2014 03:18:35AM 4 points [-]

Nobody thinks the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a country, and yet .gg exists.

Well, it's sufficiently independent of the UK to function as a tax haven. It's definitely one of those entities that's on the fuzzy boundary between country and non-country, along with Hong Kong and (in a slightly different way) Dubai.