uk.co Domains Knocked Offline By Registrar Dispute

An anonymous reader writes "The .uk.co domain was wiped off the face of the Internet this morning with no notice, leaving more than 8,000 livid individuals and businesses - including Amazon and Priceline - with no Web presence or email. I saw this on nvnews.net, which originally came from the register, but since the domain is wiped out, you can no longer reach the article." Actually, you can read the story fine on theregister.co.uk. ;)

Comments

Re:What country is .co?

[DrLudicrous]

How could this be modded to informative? What a bunch of useless tripe. First of all, it's not Columbia, it's ColOmbia, there is no u. Colombia is the country in South America that controls the .co domain, and I don't believe the National University of Colombia owns it- almost all Colombian newspapers and media are using the .co domain. Columbia is the name of various cities, counties, rivers, etc. in the United States- notice the 'u', and is not to be confused with Colombia the country.

Re:Not true - or an exaggeration anyway

[jericho4.0]

If you havn't noticed, UK domain names are all screwed up compared to the rest of the world. Well, the US, at least, but that's most of the rest of the internet world.

What's the reasoning behind .co.uk anyway? Did the british government decide 'uk' was only for them, or what?