Conflicting URLs

[doodlebug]

Read this carefully :!:

Take 2 domains on different extensions .com and .uk.com

What would happen in this situation ?

You take the word table on extension .uk.com and the word uk on extension .com and on uk.com you change the prefix www. for table. then both domains table.uk.com and table.uk.com could both be entered into the browser exactly the same so which one would you land on ?

The .uk.com would be table.uk.com and the .com would be table.uk.com

Maybe the answer is that uk.com is reserved for that reason ?

Thanks 8)

 

[rob]

*.uk.com is not a proper extension but is a subdomain.

I am happy to rent you table.rob.co.uk for £50pa ?

 

[doodlebug]

*.uk.com is not a proper extension but is a subdomain.

But you can still reg table.uk.com and use it sub or not.

 

[rob]

.uk.com .eu.com etc is Centralnic - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentralNic

Private co that sells off subdomains, the wikipedia page says its Steve Dyer who runs it.

Incidently - Does anyone know if thats the same Dyer who has had Fototopic problems of late? http://www.amateurphotographer.co.u...oing_into_liquidation_update_news_306622.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotopic.net etc etc

 

[Edwin]

But you can still reg table.uk.com and use it sub or not.

There's (almost) no limit to the number of levels of subdomains you can stick on a domain. So all of the following would be valid for the domain name "example.com"*:-
www.example.com
www.www.example.com
www.www.www.example.com
www.www.www.www.example.com
anything.anyotherthing.somethingelse.whatever.example.com
*if the DNS settings were set up accordingly

In the case of the .uk.com fake-o-domains, what Centralnic is doing (although they're careful to explain it in a very very vague, wishy-washy way) is selling people a something.uk.com SUBDOMAIN. They own the DOMAIN uk.com and ALL they are selling is a SUBDOMAIN.

What that means is any time they get fed up with offering their subdomaining service (or if something happened to their registration of "uk.com") all the subdomains they'd sold to gullible punters would instantly evaporate.

(BTW, try finding the explanation above on Centralnic's site. Good luck with that!)

 

[doodlebug]

They have always baffled me a bit as in I was thinking they were like SLDs but now I get it, I haven't bothered with them over the years.

So basically this guy bought uk.com and us.com many years ago.

OK well thanks Rob and Edwin.