Question about domain names.
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Why do some countries have to have a special ending on domain names? For instance, www.website.co.uk I don't understand why a website such as tomshardware.com has to have several domain names, one ending with .uk
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Why do some countries have to have a special ending on domain names? For instance, www.website.co.uk I don't understand why a website such as tomshardware.com has to have several domain names, one ending with .uk
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Ummm.. you know, there's many languages in this world.:omg: :rolleyes: Would you really want to have 2,000,000,000 Chinese all converge on the .com spectrum and buy up all of it? But anyway, some hardware vendors take advantage of the split domain system, offering drivers and documantation in the proper language to each of their markets. Makes sense? But there are actually domain prefixes issued for uninhabited islands as well, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the US, UK, Aus., S. A. and Ca., while sharing the same language, each have their own country specific prefix. The thing is, the US just got on the web before others and consequently sees the .com prefix as its own, although it's actually international. Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA -
Ummm.. you know, there's many languages in this world.:omg: :rolleyes: Would you really want to have 2,000,000,000 Chinese all converge on the .com spectrum and buy up all of it? But anyway, some hardware vendors take advantage of the split domain system, offering drivers and documantation in the proper language to each of their markets. Makes sense? But there are actually domain prefixes issued for uninhabited islands as well, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the US, UK, Aus., S. A. and Ca., while sharing the same language, each have their own country specific prefix. The thing is, the US just got on the web before others and consequently sees the .com prefix as its own, although it's actually international. Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CARoswellNX wrote:
Would you really want to have 2,000,000,000 Chinese all converge on the .com spectrum and buy up all of it? But anyway, some hardware vendors take advantage of the split domain system, offering drivers and documantation in the proper language to each of their markets. Makes sense?
It makes sense, but... http://www.codeproject.co.uk/ That certainly isn't a European version of codeproject.
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Ummm.. you know, there's many languages in this world.:omg: :rolleyes: Would you really want to have 2,000,000,000 Chinese all converge on the .com spectrum and buy up all of it? But anyway, some hardware vendors take advantage of the split domain system, offering drivers and documantation in the proper language to each of their markets. Makes sense? But there are actually domain prefixes issued for uninhabited islands as well, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the US, UK, Aus., S. A. and Ca., while sharing the same language, each have their own country specific prefix. The thing is, the US just got on the web before others and consequently sees the .com prefix as its own, although it's actually international. Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAIt also helps where different concerns benefit from the same base domain name, but in different countries, without requiring an umbrella body to maintain a central web site to manage regionlal content.
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RoswellNX wrote:
Would you really want to have 2,000,000,000 Chinese all converge on the .com spectrum and buy up all of it? But anyway, some hardware vendors take advantage of the split domain system, offering drivers and documantation in the proper language to each of their markets. Makes sense?
It makes sense, but... http://www.codeproject.co.uk/ That certainly isn't a European version of codeproject.
46 75 63 6B 20 79 6F 75 20 4B 79 6C 65 20 45 64 77 61 72 64 73 20 66 72 6F 6D 20 41 72 6B 61 6E 73 61 73 21 20 46 75 63 6B 20 79 6F 75 20 74 6F 20 68 65 6C 6C This is not a secret message, if it actually says anything when manipulated, it is not my fault and I am not responsible for what it may say.
The other thing that happens is that come companies just buy the domains in countries where they are very active. I mean, imagine if someone registered www.mcdonalds.com.au and filled it with stories about how McDonalds burgers have no meat in them or something ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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Why do some countries have to have a special ending on domain names? For instance, www.website.co.uk I don't understand why a website such as tomshardware.com has to have several domain names, one ending with .uk
46 75 63 6B 20 79 6F 75 20 4B 79 6C 65 20 45 64 77 61 72 64 73 20 66 72 6F 6D 20 41 72 6B 61 6E 73 61 73 21 20 46 75 63 6B 20 79 6F 75 20 74 6F 20 68 65 6C 6C This is not a secret message, if it actually says anything when manipulated, it is not my fault and I am not responsible for what it may say.
Do you mean "why is it blah.co.uk rather than just blah.uk?" It's mainly to separate out the different types of website: .co.uk = British equivalent of .com .org.uk = British equivalent of .org .ac.uk = British equivalent of .edu .gov.uk = British equivalent off .gov ... and so on
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RoswellNX wrote:
Would you really want to have 2,000,000,000 Chinese all converge on the .com spectrum and buy up all of it? But anyway, some hardware vendors take advantage of the split domain system, offering drivers and documantation in the proper language to each of their markets. Makes sense?
It makes sense, but... http://www.codeproject.co.uk/ That certainly isn't a European version of codeproject.
46 75 63 6B 20 79 6F 75 20 4B 79 6C 65 20 45 64 77 61 72 64 73 20 66 72 6F 6D 20 41 72 6B 61 6E 73 61 73 21 20 46 75 63 6B 20 79 6F 75 20 74 6F 20 68 65 6C 6C This is not a secret message, if it actually says anything when manipulated, it is not my fault and I am not responsible for what it may say.
CataclysmicQuantums wrote:
http://www.codeproject.co.uk/ That certainly isn't a European version of codeproject.
It's a squatter, looking to make some money off the ads (via mis-directed users) that's all... He's probably looking to sell it as well, but i doubt anyone will buy it..although it's decent for typosquatting. Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA -
The other thing that happens is that come companies just buy the domains in countries where they are very active. I mean, imagine if someone registered www.mcdonalds.com.au and filled it with stories about how McDonalds burgers have no meat in them or something ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
McDonalds burgers have no meat in them or something ?
You mean, they really do?
Software Zen:
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CataclysmicQuantums wrote:
http://www.codeproject.co.uk/ That certainly isn't a European version of codeproject.
It's a squatter, looking to make some money off the ads (via mis-directed users) that's all... He's probably looking to sell it as well, but i doubt anyone will buy it..although it's decent for typosquatting. Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAI think somebody registered http://www.codeporject.com too, for those unfortunate enough to mispell the address.
My current favourite word is: Waffle Cheese is still good though.
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Why do some countries have to have a special ending on domain names? For instance, www.website.co.uk I don't understand why a website such as tomshardware.com has to have several domain names, one ending with .uk
46 75 63 6B 20 79 6F 75 20 4B 79 6C 65 20 45 64 77 61 72 64 73 20 66 72 6F 6D 20 41 72 6B 61 6E 73 61 73 21 20 46 75 63 6B 20 79 6F 75 20 74 6F 20 68 65 6C 6C This is not a secret message, if it actually says anything when manipulated, it is not my fault and I am not responsible for what it may say.
Domain names aren't just fancy names either. Basically, there are big fat routers around. If someone in america want to view a .gov.uk webiste, then the request would be sent to a .gov.uk router, where it would then be forwarded to the correct website. At least, im pretty sure thats what goes on, i was tired that day. ;P
My current favourite word is: Waffle Cheese is still good though.
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RoswellNX wrote:
Would you really want to have 2,000,000,000 Chinese all converge on the .com spectrum and buy up all of it? But anyway, some hardware vendors take advantage of the split domain system, offering drivers and documantation in the proper language to each of their markets. Makes sense?
It makes sense, but... http://www.codeproject.co.uk/ That certainly isn't a European version of codeproject.
46 75 63 6B 20 79 6F 75 20 4B 79 6C 65 20 45 64 77 61 72 64 73 20 66 72 6F 6D 20 41 72 6B 61 6E 73 61 73 21 20 46 75 63 6B 20 79 6F 75 20 74 6F 20 68 65 6C 6C This is not a secret message, if it actually says anything when manipulated, it is not my fault and I am not responsible for what it may say.
CataclysmicQuantums wrote:
t makes sense, but... http://www.codeproject.co.uk/ That certainly isn't a European version of codeproject.
Some people exploit those possible variants and esp. typos in domain names to make money. Compare e.g. http://www.php.net/[^] http://www.php.org/[^] or http://www.cafeaulait.org[^]/ http://www.cafeaulait.com/[^]