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Anyone know where the j comes from? I don't even see it in the Benin ancestral names. I find the origin of tld's interesting, esp when they don't match the English names. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.166.94.1 (talk) 15:09, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All that fuss about South Sudan getting .ss (in case people thought of Nazis) yet they dump this one, which has sexual connotations in English, on a country that doesn't even have a J in its name. I would hate to be someone in Benin trying to do business in England or America, giving my email address and listening to the giggles....2.31.249.160 (talk) 17:14, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think Benin uses the country code "BJ" because there is no more matching ISO code to use. All codes with the letters that match the name Benin are already in use, such as "BE" which has been used by Belgium, "BN" which has been used by Brunei Darussalam, and "BI" which has been used by Burundi Corypight (talk) 16:11, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Restrictions are confusing/unclear

The way some of the restrictions in the list are written is very confusing. I cleaned up the list a bit, but I don't know enough about the restrictions on .bj registrations to actually fix all of them. What does it mean for a domain name to be "composed of a single nature", anyway? Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 08:28, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Based on some quick research, it seems "single nature" refers to the name of a God, incarnation/embodiment of a God, or a prophet. So you couldn't register god.bj, jesus.bj, muhammed.bj, etc. 82.23.20.185 (talk) 21:16, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]