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.

Re:Not true - or an exaggeration anyway

[cyb97]

Id guess that f.uk.co can gross some money ;-)

Re:Not true - or an exaggeration anyway

[squiggleslash]

Yes. That awful "Castle Computing", much in Slashdot lately for alleged GPL violations, was www.castle.uk.co.

Is this the wrath of any angry God, upset that his representative on Earth, Richard Stallman, should have his licence so cruelly ignored?

Or is this just another dispute about money? Time will tell...

Re:Not true - or an exaggeration anyway

[Anonymous Coward]

What kind of twisted in-bred retard would type in uk.co by accident?

I allege that, were there such a person, the likelihood of them correctly typing a difficult word like 'amazon' shrinks to zero once they start getting co and uk mixed up.

Jesus, someone register me coca.com.www.cola. You know, just in case.

Who gives a f.uk.co

[bstadil]

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

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

The Thought Process

[Riomaggio]

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!

Good riddance

[Stormie]

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.

Re:Why doesn't everyone just get a .com?

[tarquin_fim_bim]

I've heard some talk of other countries, across the ocean, I don't believe it myself though.

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