{"id":506,"date":"2006-07-30T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T12:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/the-cock-islands\/"},"modified":"2006-07-30T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T12:23:13","slug":"the-cock-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/the-cock-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cock Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cook Islands have their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oyster.net.ck\/about\/index.php?about=domain\" target=\"_new\">own top level domain<\/a> and the authorities there wisely decided to follow the example of the UK and have logical sub-domains for different types of organisation. So, if you&#8217;re a non-profit group you&#8217;d get an &#8220;.org.ck&#8221;, if you&#8217;re an academic body you&#8217;d get an &#8220;.edu.ck&#8221;, ISPs would get a &#8220;.net.ck&#8221; and so forth. Obviously a lot of thought went into this so surely they wouldn&#8217;t be so stupid as to lumber commercial organisations with &#8220;co&#8221; would they ? Because that would mean you&#8217;d end up with ludicrous domains like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfumes.co.ck\/\" target=\"_new\">perfumes.co.ck<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gifts.co.ck\/\" target=\"_new\">gifts.co.ck<\/a>&#8230;.oh FFS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cook Islands have their own top level domain and the authorities there wisely decided to follow the example of the UK and have logical sub-domains for different types of organisation. So, if you&#8217;re a non-profit group you&#8217;d get an &#8220;.org.ck&#8221;, if you&#8217;re an academic body you&#8217;d get an &#8220;.edu.ck&#8221;, ISPs would get a &#8220;.net.ck&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}