Domainnamewire News: The apparent connection likely stems from the basis of these domains rather than the list of domains itself.
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As investors grapple with losses from the latest round of Trump’s tariffs, many are struggling to understand the Trump administration’s seemingly inconsistent reasoning for targeting specific countries.
A theory circulating in articles and on social media suggests that the tariffs are linked to country code domain names. This idea raises questions: how else could one explain the imposition of tariffs on uninhabited islands that use the .hm country code?
While it is tempting to search for patterns amid the confusion, and no one can definitively claim to understand the Trump administration’s thought process, a simpler and more logical explanation likely exists beyond domain names.
Country code domains (ccTLDs) are assigned according to the ISO 3166-1 standard. If a territory or entity appears on this list, it becomes eligible to receive a ccTLD corresponding to the two-letter code assigned to it.
Thus, rather than the administration selecting countries based on their domain names, it seems more reasonable that the list of tariff targets was derived from the ISO 3166-1 standard. The overlap with domain names arises simply because the domain system relies on the same ISO list.
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