I have always thought that we have been too causal about who can register for a .uk or .co.uk domain name. Many believe that they are dealing with a company geographically placed in the UK with such a web extension.

The same sort of applies to phone numbers when a uk area code can be routed to a phone anywhere in the world. Generally OK and useful but morally right?

IMHO if the YES vote swings that way then any Scottish company using .uk or .co.uk should be banned from doing so and that calls to and from Scotland should be classed as international. And get away from the country code being 44; I think there was a proposal on the table that the Scotland country code would become 442. I guess that was for technical reasons, but I don't like it. Get their own I would say!

In reply to a post by billford:

.nb could be attractive� as in nota bene

Not really, more likely to be .us

Just think how much money could be made by teh UK in charging International Transits for data and voice! As far as I know there are no major international links from Scotland and traffic is routed though England

If Scotland vote yes and the ban the use of .co.uk then surely that will filter to England too if the other 2 nations decide for independence too us there will be no "United Kingdom"

Complete anal retention imho though.

Some people will vote for independance solely to be rid of the royal family (aka waste of tax patyers money)

The Northern Irish have no desire to become independent - they were partitioned of from the southern terrorists because they wanted to stay British and that opinion still prevails.

The Welsh did at one time want some form, but they saw the light and realised how much is "subsidised" by England.

As for the Royal Family - they will remain as the Scottish Royal Family.

In reply to a post by MHC:

The Northern Irish have no desire to become independent - they were partitioned of from the southern terrorists because they wanted to stay British and that opinion still prevails.

Note that it was primarily the Protestant descendants of Scots living in NI that wished to remain British, not the indigenous Irish.

Quote :The Northern Irish have no desire to become independent - they were partitioned of from the southern terrorists because they wanted to stay British and that opinion still prevails.##

That must be why Sinn Fein does so badly in Northern Ireland , and the English Daily Mail makes such an efficient lining for pet-poop trays !

Not sure if this would make any difference

The exchange called IXScotland will be LINX's first dedicated Internet Exchange (IXP) for the region

https://www.linx.net/publicity/2013releases/pr2013-0...

still has to go through england i think.

Thare does look to be fibre links into scotland from ireland.

In reply to a post by MHC:

Just think how much money could be made by teh UK in charging International Transits for data and voice! As far as I know there are no major international links from Scotland and traffic is routed though England

Those links belong to private companies, surely?