The Dot Net & Dot Com Meaning

superscaper

As for .tv, the country is Tuvalu.

chunter

Little_John wrote: »

I always recomend to customers to never buy anything other than .com or .co.uk people usually asume your address will be one of those 2 and only remember the bit before. If you search with google for mse or moneysavingexpert it will come up with this site as number 1. try the same for a site with one of the others it will come up with the .com or .co.uk variant first. if the company is in the same line of work then the user may order from them.

Always have a unique domain that .com and .co.uk are available to ensure they find you.

You're talking business websites. I use .org and .org.uk for non-business sites and they feature ok in Yahoo and Google.

But you're right in general about business websites. Using .org and .net just confuse people. I edit a website where someone else bought the domain name and I can never remember which of the above it is.

superscaper

chunter wrote: »

You're talking business websites. I use .org and .org.uk for non-business sites and they feature ok in Yahoo and Google.

But you're right in general about business websites. Using .org and .net just confuse people. I edit a website where someone else bought the domain name and I can never remember which of the above it is.

Never mind the .net .org, there's a business that keeps using my .co.uk and .com email addresses because they get confused on which ones they own. Bit of a shock when you suddenly get a genuine invoice emailed to you for a shipping container of goods!

Mr_Vincent

malamute wrote: »

Every thing you could possibly want to know plus links to all sub domains etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk

This was most useful.
I'd love to place all those dot country codes into a list starting with .com (I know, I know) and I have been given it here
http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/text/web_country_codes.html#START

I think I am confused about what I want but wikipedia appears to say it best.
.cu = Cuba
.om = Oman.

We shall see.

Mr_Vincent

ckerrd wrote: »

dont assume that a .com is american.

Anyone can register a .com name - if it is available

ckerrd wrote: »

dont assume that a .com is american.

Anyone can register a .com name - if it is available

I always assume a .com name is international unless the site owners say so otherwise and that a .co.uk site is intended to state that the owners are British based.

Always useful to know what other country codes are though, then again they will be up against the might of .com, so why not tag along.

Cheers
(Here's to using that ctrl & F5 buttons again, it is starting to irritate me using it all the time to get my formatting right :mad: )