Proud to announce that #dotScotRegistry is now a member of Scots of Canada joining 120+ existing members. Remarkable how many #Scottish organisations there are across #Canada & Scots of Canada does wonderful job of housing them under one roof #dotScot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦🌎🌏🌍

https://www.scotsofcanada.scot

Exactly 14 years ago yesterday we formed the small, not-for-profit company #DotScotRegistry that would eventually apply @ICANN & acquire the .scot domain enabling #Scotland to finally take its place on #internet Wee reminder of how it all worked #birth #heritage #affinity #business #charity #culture https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scot-worldwide-family-scots-harry-mcgrath?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via
.scot and the worldwide family of Scots

Scotland acquired its own internet identity seven years ago after a group of motivated Scots formed a not-for-profit company and applied to the the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the .scot (#dotscot) domain.

"My immediate thought was that there should be a place on the #Fediverse that’s Scottish, and that’s why I started mastodon.scot."

Another punt for our profile of #Mastodon #Scot and the remarkable Rodti MacLeary who started & runs it. Chuffed that #DotScotRegistry is now a listed supporter

https://dot.scot/stories/12268/

Mastodon.scot • dotScot Registry

Please tell us about the background to Mastodon/mastodon.scot Mastodon is an open-source and decentralised social networking platform. What this means is that instead of joining a single huge social media network run by a giant corporation, you can join a…Continue reading →

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