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. ;)

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Not true - or an exaggeration anyway

[KNicolson]

leaving more than 8,000 livid individuals and businesses - including Amazon and Priceline - with no Web presence or email.

As The Reg article says, it was used by these two companies, for example, to catch people who typed http://www.amazon.uk.co by accident. Both these two still have their co.uk versions working successfully.

Sub Judice...

[$$$$$exyGal]

What went wrong we may find out tomorrow as a Colombian judge decides whether Net Registrar has the continued right to the domain. Until then, Robert Fox tells us, he considers the matter sub judice and so does not want to comment further.

For those that don't know, "sub judice" means that Mr. Fox doesn't want the media to do something that would influence the judge.

--sex

Re:What country is .co?

[YOU LIKEWISE FAIL IT]

Yup, it's Columbia. The domain in question is owned by the Univ. of Columbia, and they want to sell it off, like Tuvalu did. The government is not too happy, and this has sparked something of a pissing match.

Read the article on el Reg, it's got the goods.

Personally, I believe people that do this ( like the .au.com people ) deserve what they get.

Re:this isn't true at all

[damiam]

31 December 2003 ... while they were supposed to have done it on the 31st of December

Check your year.