Google - Are They Preparing For .uk?

[splashweb]

I was setting up a new Google Analytics account this morning and on the page where you copy the tracking code I noticed the following paragraph (interesting part in bold):

"This tracking code can be used on mydomain.co.uk or any mydomain.co.uk sub-domain (www. mydomain.co.uk, blog.mydomain.co.uk, etc.).
To track visitors across other domains you own (mydomain.uk and mydomain.cn, etc.), please refer to the cross-domain tracking guide."

Hopefully this is just the clumsy, or over creative, doings of a content writer, but it certainly raised my eybrows when I spotted it, especially since this interface has been recently updated.

Paranoia on my part??

 

[donton]

Funny you mention this.

Around 6 months ago I noticed that on my eBay fee invoices from PayPal the customer support email address was changed to "[email protected]".

I've attached a screen cap.

Probably just me being paranoid though!

 

[max_rk]

mistake probably ebay.

 

[Stephen]

.uk confusion

I'm sure it was a mistake in each case, but it shows if 2 of the largest online corporations in the world, namely eBay and Google can get confused between .uk and .co.uk what is going to happen if Nominet get their way and introduce .uk in its proposed format in 2014?

For the latest on the debate I would refer you to the latest DRAFT feedback from Edwin on the .uk consultation on another Acorn thread.

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/uk-domain-name-consultations/119058-v2-response-draft-work-progress.html

 

[Nigel]

I'm sure it was a mistake in each case, but it shows if 2 of the largest online corporations in the world, namely eBay and Google can get confused between .uk and .co.uk what is going to happen if Nominet get their way and introduce .uk in its proposed format in 2014?

For the latest on the debate I would refer you to the latest DRAFT feedback from Edwin on the .uk consultation on another Acorn thread.

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/uk-domain-name-consultations/119058-v2-response-draft-work-progress.html

very good point - so we've now got two good examples of confusion between .co.uk and .uk that we can provide in our v2 consultation response.

 

[anthony]

I'm sure it was a mistake in each case, but it shows if 2 of the largest online corporations in the world, namely eBay and Google can get confused between .uk and .co.uk ...

How can that possibly be construed as confusion between the two, .uk doesn't even exist?

They're clearly typos by internal staff, nothing more than that! In fact, given they are both US Corps, it actually underlines the most common format of cctld's outside of the United Kingdom.

 

[sdsinc]

They're clearly typos by internal staff, nothing more than that! In fact, given they are both US Corps, it actually underlines the most common format of cctld's outside of the United Kingdom.

This is what I think as well.
Even though there are plenty of .co.tld or .com.tld besides .co.uk (ie .co.nz .com.au .com.mx etc).

But in the US .com is the norm and they shun their own .us TLD