It is understandable why the government of East Timor – now officially known as Timor-Leste – wanted to rescind the ‚tp‘ that formally denoted their country – it stood for „Timor Português“ meaning „Portuguese Timor“, reflecting its time as a colony of Portugal.

The ‚.tp‘ registry was even run by an Irish company when it appeared online in 1997 because the East Timorese authorities were in exile following a takeover of their country by the Indonesian military.