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Finally...a use for .UK

Discussion in 'General Board' started by archibel, Jun 26, 2015.

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  1. archibel Spain

    archibel Active Member

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    I've just accidently typed in dailymailco.uk and got a third-party website with affiliate links.

    I see amazonco.uk, tescoco.uk and ebayco.uk are similarly set up and I expect they all get a decent quantity of mistyped traffic.

    Whilst I don't condone passing-off, it's nice to see that someone other than Nominet is making money out of .UK
     
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    IWA Meetup
     
  3. Scottie United Kingdom

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    I stumbled across threeco.uk parked at sedo.
     
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    this is apprentice talk!
     
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    Perhaps the plan for .uk all along was to fleece domainers and make a killing on future DRS fees :D
     
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    During the consultation, didn't nominet specifically mention this problem ? I know I brought it up a few times.
     
  7. scooter United Kingdom

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    Even some small "registrars" getting in on the act :rolleyes:

    Domain name: carphonewarehouseco.uk
    Registrant: Stefan Hansmann


    Registrar: Nanjing Imperiosus Technology Co. Ltd [Tag = NANJING-CN]
    URL: http://www.domainerschoice.com


    Domainerschoice CEO
    Stefan Hansmann



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  8. Retired_Member42

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    Does anyone here own something similar? I'd be interested to see how much traffic one of these generated and what you could actually do with it without getting sued.
     
  9. diablo

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    Still, as long as the address details validate, the public is safe.
     
  10. The Ferryman United Kingdom

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    :)
     
  11. sdsinc Iceland

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    Nice find. That was to be expected though, and if somebody ran a survey it would certainly show a few surprises.
     
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