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Lost User

This was prompted by an ad shown on the uk soccer game I am watching. The ad was for GoCompare.com , which seems to be a UK SITE GIVING COMPARISONS ON PRICES OF VARIOUS INSURANCES, (scuse caps, in iPad and can't be bothered to fix) Anyhow, I was initially confused, as I would expect an english company to have a .co.uk address. GoCompare.co.uk does redirect to GoCompare.com, but I wondered why use .com instead of .co.uk for a consumer site ?

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Dalek Dave

Anyone can buy a .com account. The .uk is useful for consumer in the UK for they know it will be specifically aimed at them and use a proper currency (£). But .com is also acceptable and most organisations like to have all the bases covered.

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Lost User

Because when the internet was starting up it was largely populated and managed by US companies who never envisaged anyone outside the US ever needing it. Otherwise we would have a .co.us domain.

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Nagy Vilmos

But there is a .us top level domain[^]

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Lost User

All thisi is true, but I was more wondering WHY a uk company targeting solely UK consumers, would use a .com domain as their domain of choice? Sure, register the .com too, but wy not use .co.uk as the one to which e .com redirects.

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Dalek Dave

.com has more kudos, gives the impression of being more important that a mere ".(insert country of choice here)" and therefore more professional.

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Henry Minute

Ah, but not a .co.us, just .us. The arrogance of some people!

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Lost User

Yeah, why isn't it called .them?

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m1thr4nd1r

Henry Minute wrote: Ah, but not a .co.us, just .us. The arrogance of some people! Using standard US state codes .co.us would be for Colorado. Only .uk and .nz seem to use .co. Everyone else uses .com.countrycode. Andrew We are stuck with Microsoft^Wtechnology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Henry Minute

m1thr4nd1r wrote:

Using standard US state codes .co.us would be for Colorado.

Not so. The registered TLD for .co.us is in fact the good old USA. (see below).

m1thr4nd1r wrote:

Only .uk and .nz seem to use .co. Everyone else uses .com.countrycode.

Errrrm, definitely not so. A List[^].

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