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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. ;)
There's a uk.co domain? Stupid... isn't .co like columbia or something?
Registars knock you off YOU
Why bother.
I mean, it's shorter, often cheaper and has more of a presence. Not only that, but it's STANDARD. Anyone, anywhere, who has used a computer knows .com. How many know .uk.co? It just doesn't look right. Why pay more for a more complex address?
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.
These domains are just a revisit of deceptive sites that uses common misspellings. Like amason.com
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What's with all these top-level domains disappearing? First .name, now .uk.co...
I'm just glad I still have my trusty old .cx domain name.
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Anyone using a .uk.co domain deserves to be knocked off line. They were 99.99999% chance a complete scam anyway. Geez. Are we crying for the internet crooks now?
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
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.
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Cast a .co.uk domain to an idiot, and you get Colombia...
It's not that big of a deal.
So, by wiping out this domain we avoid the typical web user playing through the following scenario:
1) Web user thinks: "I need to order a book, let's go to Amazon"
2) Web user types: "amazon.uk.co"
3) Web user sees 15,000 porn sites pop up
4) Web user starts to sweat, looks around office, hopes no one walks by
5) Web user clicks furiously, but fails to keep up with the rush of pop-ups, pop-unders, and installation prompts
6) Web user co-worker walks by, see's web user sweating, moaning softly and clicking so fast his/her hand is a blur
7) Web user hits reset button on PC, loses all work, but manages to stem the tide of porn
8) Web user sees co-worker next in cafeteria next day sitting with several other people, all are looking at web user and snickering...
It's happened to all of us, admit it! Getting rid of "spam" domains is a good thing!
Now, if they could could just get rid of whitehouse.com, I'd have a lot more respect for the American government!
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Just like it would be good riddance if the .au.com domains dropped off the internet. These scammers register a single .com domain for $15/year or whatever and then try so sell as many ".au.com" domains as they can, all pure profit, to suckers who couldn't get the .com.au domain they wanted.
Did you know that ICANN requires you to have a physical address in your registrar record? Someone tried take one of my ".net" domains on a technicality because I had a P.O. Box listed. More info here.
...why the FUCK are UK companies registering COLUMBIAN domains? I have absolutely no fucking sympathy for them over this. They have reaped what they have sowed.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, .co.uk is knocked off!
SO maybe Amazon thought of this one already...
When did Columbia change from a (banana?) Republic to a Dominion? I must have missed that!
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
...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.
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
Bye bye to Castle Technologies, Linux kernel pirates*. Why you couldn't just use castle.co.uk in the first place, we may never know.
*: ALLEGEDLY
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From www.uk.co:
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.co top level domain names by no later than 31 December 2003.
.uk.co people nearly two months to find new domains. It's not like they just swept the rug out from underneath their feet as the reg's article seems to imply (though the article does mention that this was mandated last July).
Since December 2002, we had offered to enter into a new arrangement with Net Registrar in order to safeguard your uk.co registrations with them for a short period of time to allow you sufficient time to transition to alternative domain names.
A Council of State decision in Colombia dated 12 July 2002 ordered the Minister of Communications in Colombia to take over the administration of
They had been planning this since July, and while they were supposed to have done it on the 31st of December, they actually seem to have given all the
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
First posts stop YOU!
Remember Castle Software from the GPL violation articles on /.? You know, the guys who (supposedly) ripped off GPLed kernel code for RISC OS. Yup, they were www.castle.uk.co. Not anymore. The vengeful spirit of RMS is seeking revenge on these bastards by knocking out the whole uk.co faux-domain.
It turns out that mail.com had sold engineer.com to somebody, and that was that. I don't know how many freemailer's lost their email address because of that, but it must have been more than a few. Heck, engineer.com is still probably getting spam from all those online sweepstakes sites that I signed up with way back then, hehehe...
What was annoying was the absolute lack of warning. Yes, the mail.com agreement stated subject to termination without advance warning but I honestly didn't expect them to actually play that trump card. Well, live and learn.
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I think I'll stick to replying to FP's. ;-)
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You are supposed to get a nice colorized version of this:
The slashdot sig processor munges the line, but by ecode'ing it it, here it is: (should be 2 lines)
Of course you need a real ESC character or you can stick in the octal code \033 also. You can generate an ESC in vim by pressing [CTRL]-v and then [ESC] (hereafer referred to [CTRL]-v [ESC]). If you open your$ source
and you should get the expected results.
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I thought whitehouse.com was for renting out the Lincoln Bedroom, and for other PAC commercial activities? :)
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.
Every sale counts? Every dollar matters. Ok, lets explain the multimillion dolllar executive salaries. Every dollar is critical!
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D00d! You need to come over right now so I can suxor your coxor! Fuckin LEET, man, using Lunux and shit!
Parent is off-topic. Please mod down.
As I've got no way to fix this in the above post, it would be better if we just buried it somewhere, like -1.
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One god, one market, one truth, one consumer.
I officially dub that the nicest flamewar ever.
What the...
I'M the first fucking post AND I ASKED A LEGITIMATE QUESTION!!! HOW CAN I BE REDUNDANT!?!
Everyone else is redundant, not this post.
STupid moderators
You might want to check my journal... Just FYI. I was wondering exactly who that it was that the stalking was actually meant for. I guess he took my link to your site in my user info page to mean it was my site. Ho hum.
:-) It's my only real claim to fame.
BTW: Handy webpage.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
That would be quite ironic that a god would choose an atheist as his representative...
(Yes, I realize you are joking)
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And the previous post isn't redundant, it's OFFTOPIC stupid fucks.
I was quite proud of my "permanent" iname.com address several years ago... till mail started to jam or be delayed for days. Then they were bought by mail.com, and it got even worse. The conditions kept deteriorating slow, bounces, no POP mail, and one day ALL my mail folders disappeared during an outage when no mail was delivered fpr several days. They apologised, but it was gone. By then of course I'd gotten a (slightly) more reliable primary address, but it was still galling. At least it still worked well enough for me to set up an auto responder to tell people to telephone me instead (I wasn't going to give my new address to spammers). So I use Yahoo, and then they upped the charge (for POP) to $20/year....
I'd like to introduce you to this wonderfull little thing called punctuation, here's something to get you started: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-10 -11&res=l.
I suggest you also investigate the "comma", see, the English language isn't so hard when you try.
Off the top of my head... I would imagine that the difference between philosophy and religion is that religion dictates specific guidelines for social interaction.
Also, religions have a tendency to be (on a individual scale) mutually exclusive. ie: someone cannot be both Jewish and a Muslim -- a person claiming to be both would be neither.
Philosophies do not seem to be mutually exclusive.
I generally consider Buddhism to be a religion, but Taoism to be more of a philosophy. (If someone has a different opinion about Taoism, I'd be welcome to hear it)
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Heh. You've obviously never done tech support. Or, for that matter, dealt with the general public as part of your job.
We've managed to prove that human stupidity isn't infinite by the sheer fact that we haven't yet left the planet for the cockroaches, but I assure you that value is very, very large indeed.
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Another reason why people might get mixed up and use .uk.co domains is due to the JANET addressing scheme.
JANET (Joint Academic Network) is a UK network, and it used (uses??) a reverse domain names, i.e. you would mail someone@uk.ac.* (Well the Brits always does things backwards...)
Just google for JANET and co.uk or co.ac and you will see enough references for that.
Heh, you think a simple uk.co backwardnocity is bad, at I'll explain very slowly and clearly that "It is very important to make sure the long end of your gun is pointed toward you at all times. If you have the short end, the only one with the hole in it pointed toward you you will be shooting yourself and i will point and laugh." Then I get to watch as the people don't notice that they are shooting themself in the face with their laser the entire 7 minutes of the game.
Some times I wish we had paintball instead of laser tag.
Off-topic?!? ummm what was the topic again?
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It's called logical hierarchy. Rather than lump everything together in one monolithic mass it's broken down into logically related topics. In much the same way as the top-level has com, org and net the UK cc domain has:
- co, ltd, plc for companies
- org for non-profit and other roganisations
- mod for the military
- police for the police
- gov for the government
- me for people
and probably some others.(\/)atthew
And at the very end of the film there was a text screen saying "oh, and after this he converted to buddhism and became a nice guy." Argh!
Sure they can, they are quite similar religions.
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It's amazing how an ignorant writer can fail to inform
.uk.co was wiped, which in turn has 8000+ holders of *.uk.co 3rd LEVEL SUBDOMAINS hanging dry. How can the registrar be held responsible for a domain registrant's sale of such 8000 subdomains ? More importantly, why did they care in the first place ?
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He need to know the difference between a DOMAIN (.co) and a SUBDOMAIN (.uk.co).
The SUBDOMAIN
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I thought the whole idea of the domain name system was that it was supposed to be simple. If you need to register extra addresses to catch typo's or use weird combinations of other country's tld's then the system doesnt work. Also the fact is people like the ".com" tld, its become a fashon label, this also goes against the system. Maybe we need a new way of naming - (obviously one thats open and free)
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Heh. You've obviously never done tech support. Or, for that matter, dealt with the general public as part of your job.
Well, actually, I have... I spent at least three years doing tech support in New Zealand, and not once did I encounter someone doing something that stupid.
However, since you obviously have, you must tell me what country you work in, so I can avoid taking support jobs in that country. I thought the people I had to deal with were fuck-knuckles, but they were geniuses compared with whoever you have to deal with.
You have my deepest condolences!
The Internet started out in the US, so when the TLDs were made up, all the Internet hosts were mostly in the US, so they saw no need to give their domains a CC. They gave other countries CCs so as not to confuse them with their own systems. As the US invented the Internet, they got to make this up. It's a bit like with England inventing postage-stamps. English stamps are the only country's stamps that do not say which country they're from. All other country's postage-stamps print the country's name on them, so if there's no country's name on a stamp, it's English.