Here in Scotland there has been a fair amount of interest in creating a scottish domain name, as this story from a couple of years ago demonstrates. So much so that Nominet have had to issue a domain statement Scottish businesses currently being attracted by the offer of a "Scottish" domain name, .sc, should be aware that they may not be getting what they think. Apparently .sc is the domain for the Seychelles, but is being offered to Scottish businesses as a Scottish alternative to co.uk etc.

It could be useful to have a Scottish domain for search purposes. I think there is a probably a market for a Scottish version of the SOSIG subject gateway (you could call it HAGIS).