Domain names .CO
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My isp's domain is aa.nu and that's a domain for the island state of Niue yet they don't seem to have had any probs and have no links with the island.
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.co = .COmpany without a country moniker. In the same way that .tv = TeleVision... or someone from Tuvalu 
Always wondered why the domain name for South Africa was .za. Always makes me think of Zambia until I was there once and asked and it's for Zud Afrika
Always wondered why the domain name for South Africa was .za. Always makes me think of Zambia until I was there once and asked and it's for Zud Afrika
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.co = .COmpany without a country moniker. In the same way that .tv = TeleVision... or someone from Tuvalu
Always wondered why the domain name for South Africa was .za. Always makes me think of Zambia until I was there once and asked and it's for Zud Afrika
.co is the country domain level for columbia
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Basically, they're running out of domain names so their revenue stream is drying up, so they've re-purposed the .co domain to use it in addition to .com as an international company domain. This is both short sighted and a little bit stupid as every conversation you have about your web address will go something like this:
"what's your website address"
"www.hoorayforkittens.co"
"dot co what?"
"just dot co"
"ok, got it, hoorayforkittens.com"
"not dot com, dot co"
"dot co dot uk?"
"..."
If you have a business and already have the .com and .co.uk versions then it might be worth getting before somebody else does, but I'd be loathe to because it's such an obvious attempt at getting more money out of people.
"what's your website address"
"www.hoorayforkittens.co"
"dot co what?"
"just dot co"
"ok, got it, hoorayforkittens.com"
"not dot com, dot co"
"dot co dot uk?"
"..."
If you have a business and already have the .com and .co.uk versions then it might be worth getting before somebody else does, but I'd be loathe to because it's such an obvious attempt at getting more money out of people.
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first of all people keep thinking i had forgot to put .UK at the end and then i was getting queries regarding Columbian type things... ranging from do you sell fruit to can you sell me a property type advertising emails...just not worth the ****in hasssle
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Not true. Colombia decided to free up and sell their TLD on the open market in exactly the same way that Tuvalu did with .tv .
It's nothing to do with 'they' or running short of domain names. Each country has the rights to its own TLD and can do whatever they like with it.
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All you ahve to do in order to free up millions of domain names is add another character. there are a lot you can't use in a domain name registration.. Its simple enough for nominet to add one and litrally millions of co.uk etc domains become available wiht the new character..
Nominet are non profit making and have more money than they know what to do wiht.. so millions of new domains would cause them more problems as they find it hard to keep up wiht what they have to do
Nominet are non profit making and have more money than they know what to do wiht.. so millions of new domains would cause them more problems as they find it hard to keep up wiht what they have to do
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All you ahve to do in order to free up millions of domain names is add another character. there are a lot you can't use in a domain name registration.. Its simple enough for nominet to add one and litrally millions of co.uk etc domains become available wiht the new character..
Nominet are non profit making and have more money than they know what to do wiht.. so millions of new domains would cause them more problems as they find it hard to keep up wiht what they have to do
Unfortunately it's not Tony. The way the system works means that there is only a defined character set that can be used for domain names, which is a very limited ASCII subset. It might change in the future, but at the moment there are no plans to do so even with HTML5.
Tim Berners-Lee outlined it back in 1994:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
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You can use an = or + sign or others in an url.. you cant in a domain registration... Thus you can add some charactors to a domain name...yes?
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Yup, I take your point (although you can't really use '=') and different registration companies handle it in different ways.
You should be able to use the '-' and '_' freely, but not everyone will allow you to register that. '+' presents problems as it's used in php.
You should be able to use the '-' and '_' freely, but not everyone will allow you to register that. '+' presents problems as it's used in php.
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Well to be fair so are a lot of other odd charactors.. But theres nothing AUTO about php so it only does what the programmer tells it to.. if + became a part of the url then the programer would work around that.
Cant see anything like that happening for many yrs though
if at all.