- Domain name registration
- Posted by NotMe on March 6th, 2006
"Richard Rundle"
| > Take care if you register a *.ws domain as once registered you can't
| > transfer the registration.
| >
|
| But if you're not in Samoa, it shouldn't really be a problem, should it ?
Not many of the *.ws domains have anything to do with W Samoa. The company
that administers the domain is located in the USA.
Most think *.ws = *.WebSite ... I doubt if the holders can even find it on
a map.
- Posted by William Tasso on March 6th, 2006
Fleeing from the madness of the jungle
NotMe <me@privacy.net> stumbled into
news:alt.http://www.webmaster,alt.html,comp.p...tcp-ip.domains
and said:
which makes it more or less superfluous don't you think?[1] - but then I
think the whole idea of TLDs wasn't properly thought out [2] - we are all
familiar with the potential for confusion viz. http://whitehouse..... &c.
I suspect the inhabitants are grateful for that.
FWIW I've yet to field one single enquiry for a .ws domain - the same is
also true for .info - I have one .biz on the books.
[1] yes, I know - but this is a webmaster group so live with it.
[2] hindsight is blessed with 20/20 vision
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- Posted by robert blake on March 6th, 2006
"William Tasso" <SpamBlocked@tbdata.com> wrote in news
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wnt@tbdata.com:
definitely maybe
- Posted by Kim André Akerĝ on March 6th, 2006
William Tasso wrote:
Sounds about right. I currently hold several .info and a couple of .biz
names, but mainly because I have most of them in the .com and/or .net
version as well. And I registered them just to avoid someone with cruel
intentions doing it first. I've yet to see someone actually using any
of them to reach any websites linked to them (if any). With the
exception of a .info domain I registered to use with a Norwegian IRC
help channel for PHP programmers (which generally just contains the
channel rules, starter links and a self-made pastebin).
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- Posted by Mark Goodge on March 6th, 2006
On 6 Mar 2006 16:31:24 GMT, Kim André Akerĝ put finger to keyboard and
typed:
Just as a contra-indication, my experience is that .info is becoming
increasingly more popular and I've got several that I deal with - both
my own and those of other people (my second most popular website is on
a .info domain). The big advantage of .info, at least for English
speakers, is that it's a real word (or, at least, a common abbreviated
word) which can make the entire domain make sense as a phrase. From
here in the UK, it's often also a better choice for non-profit sites
than either .org or .org.uk, as it's easy for people to get confused
between the gTLD and ccTLD forms and end up at the wrong place. And,
according to published stats, registrations in .info are growing
faster than any other gTLD, even though it's still running in fourth
place overall behind .com, .net and .org.
I'd agree, though, that no-one seems to want .biz. I don't know anyone
who uses it for a primary domain, and only a handful of owners who've
registered it defensively and pointed it to an existing domain. Part
of the problem is reputaion - all that seems to be on .biz are
spammers and scammers.
Mark
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- Posted by MGW on March 6th, 2006
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:45:30 +0000, Mark Goodge
<usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> scrawled:
OK, time to confess my ignorance - what are gTLD and ccTLD?
TIA
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- Posted by John Bokma on March 6th, 2006
MGW <mgw1979@hotmail.com> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTLD com and friends
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CcTLD country code (nl, uk, be, etc)
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- Posted by Blinky the Shark on March 6th, 2006
MGW wrote:
I'd never seen those terms either. In context, I'm guessing
geographicalTLD and countrycodeTLD.
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- Posted by Blinky the Shark on March 6th, 2006
Blinky the Shark wrote:
Ah! Generic, not geographical. I thought gTLD and ccTLD were being
*equated*, and I did get countrycodeTLD right.
Do I get the booby prize?
There's always room for booby.
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- Posted by MGW on March 6th, 2006
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:50:19 -0800, Blinky the Shark
<no.spam@box.invalid> scrawled:
Don't count your boobies until they are hatched. (James Thurber, "The
Unicorn in the Garden")
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when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. - Douglas Hofstadter
