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uk.co Domains Knocked Offline By Registrar Dispute

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the transpose-transpose dept.

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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  1. Who gives a f.uk.co by bstadil · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These domains are just a revisit of deceptive sites that uses common misspellings. Like amason.com

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  2. Re:Why doesn't everyone just get a .com? by Repton · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Err, because if every domain was a .com, we may as well drop the .com suffix and go to arbitrary names. Which would defeat the purpose of the domain name system altogether --- we would lose easy distribution of the workload, and just put more pressure on a few servers.

    Heirarchies are a Good Thing, as any geek should know.

    [and, besides, often you want to distinguish yourself as belonging to a specific region...]

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  3. No big deal by Animats · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There were only 8,000 domains in "uk.co", and they were mostly slimeballs anyway, trolling for people who don't know they should be typing "co.uk". No big loss.

  4. (Idiot)UK == Colombia by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Cast a .co.uk domain to an idiot, and you get Colombia... It's not that big of a deal.

  5. Re:Why doesn't everyone just get a .com? by vadim_t · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe because there are so many .com's that it's hard to come up with anything meaningful because pretty much everything obvious has been registered already?

  6. I doubt it by carpe_noctem · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

    Somehow I doubt that amazon's web and email presence was severely limited by the lack of an amazon.uk.co domain.

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  7. Yeah, really by Cyno · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why doesn't everyone just get an IP address? This system only works if everyone gets equal share and plays fairly. But we're all a bunch of liers, cheaters and theives.