It’s 2016 and a country in good old central Europe is about to change its official name.
The Czech Republic, one part of the former Czechoslovakia that split in 1993, is renaming – yet again.
The new name, Czechia, is actually centuries old.
The country will retain its full name but Czechia will become the official short geographic name, thus making the owners of Czechia.com very happy.
Czechia.com is a web hosting services provider.
For now, Czechia.com is a web hosting services company, headquartered in the Czech Republic.
Czechia.com was registered in 1996, according to DomainTools, and its owners also own the matching .CZ domain, Czechia.cz.
This is a major lucky strike for a great geodomain and its owners.
Whether it’s the Czech Republic, or Czechia, girls there are very pretty. 😀
IMHO it’s an unnecessary change, new name sounds ugly, and, even worse, the all thing has been done without a public citizen consultation. It’s just a mess: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/18/czechia-name-change-czech-republic-problems-people-government
I agree with the regional development minister, Karla Slechtova, who thinks it is too close to “Chechnya“, making it prone to confusion. Furthermore, as she has recently mentioned, Czech Republic had invested more than $40m in a tourism promotion campaign using its full name, and should stick to it.
This is even funnier 😀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue-Bd7b8hxo
Andrea, there is not change. Just a shorter form to the name Czech Republic. The French Republic also uses a shorter form, France (in Spanish or Italian “Francia”).
If Czechia is ugly (your words), then Czech Republic (same sound plus -ia like Australia or California) is also ugly and CZECHoslovakIA would be super ugly (it was CZECHIA with inserted “o-slovak”).