What does .cc mean?

[lightningghost]

In a website address what does .cc mean? .co.uk is a UK company (i think), .com is american (is it communications?), but what's .cc?


I'm just asking becuase I have a list of free website domain names and .cc is £30.95 and .co.uk is only £8.99 per year.

Cheers,

LG

[GreenV8S]

The .com top level domain is the most for commercial sites, particularly American ones. I haven't come across anyone using .cc before, but a quick Google suggests that it is an alternative to .com.

[lightningghost]

cool. thanks.

[JamieBeeston]

Most countries were assigned a TLD for their use.

.at Austria
.uk UK
.jp Japan

.com was widely adopted as American

.cc Cocos (Keeling) Islands

ITs just another cheap Domain people can sell..

they will sell anything nowadays, just to 'get a sale' hence the stupid amount of domain extensions.

there are some semi-useful ones..

.TV for example, they even proposed .sex to help 'identify the pron ones' cos 'nakedboobs.com' wasnt obvious enough (nothing to do with the fake it makes them ££££)

If you REALLY want a domain, and all the others are taken, then you have the choice of an alternate extension, but personally I wouldnt bother


I made the decision to keep it simple, and only offer the 'useful' tlds on Register1.

.com
.net
.org
.co.uk
.org.uk
.me.uk
.biz
.info
.tv

Anything past those is, imho, silly

hell, you can even get .ph now (already looked into doing them, but its not viable!)

Enjoy.

[docevi1]

My understanding was the United States Of America had .usa, but they most wanted the universal for their own (surprise there ) so started to use .com.

If I remember properly, they even wanted to start sueing anyone who wasn't American for using .com, as we all had .co.uk and the like, and .com was "there-own".

[omitchell]

docevi1 said:

My understanding was the United States Of America had .usa, but they most wanted the universal for their own (surprise there ) so started to use .com. If I remember properly, they even wanted to start sueing anyone who wasn't American for using .com, as we all had .co.uk and the like, and .com was "there-own".

i agree with it all except the sueing anyone using .com as it is just the commercial url suffix originally for global, sorry multinational, organisations

[john_p]

Don't forget all the money raised by these little islands in the Pacific ..

Tuvalu sold the rights to sell .tv domains to an American company for $50m in 1998 .. this was 5 times the previous year's GDP plus they had the rights to a load more revenue after that .. (no idea whether they got it or not though!)

>> Edited by john_p on Monday 3rd January 14:39

[simpo two]

I associate .cc addresses with dodgy homepages that spyware resets your browser to.

[JamieBeeston]

simpo two said:

I associate .cc addresses with dodgy homepages that spyware resets your browser to.

Same with .tk, and to a point. .uk.com

Still, it all makes some big corp richer

[LongQ]

john_p said:

Don't forget all the money raised by these little islands in the Pacific .. Tuvalu sold the rights to sell .tv domains to an American company for $50m in 1998 .. this was 5 times the previous year's GDP plus they had the rights to a load more revenue after that .. (no idea whether they got it or not though!) >> Edited by john_p on Monday 3rd January 14:39

Used to work with a company who had a division theat specialised in things to do with network tv transmissions. When the .tv domain extension became active that they bought into something like "www.tv.tv"

One of the guys in the group had intials TV. So he transferred to the division as it was floated off from the parent and got an email something like [e-mail]. Not exactly that but something very similar as I recall.

[simpo two]

JamieBeeston said:

Same with .tk, and to a point. .uk.com

Hey, I have a uk.com!

[JamieBeeston]

simpo two said:

JamieBeeston said: Same with .tk, and to a point. .uk.com Hey, I have a uk.com!

and why do you because the domain you wanted was taken on all the other tlds.


uk.com isnt a real TLD, its not even a proper SLD, its just someone who bought uk.com (like bloggs.com) and then decided to resell subdomains (which should be free!) from the domain to make money.

Great plan, but it just doesnt fit in with the other T/SLDs.

but beh

Enjoy

[lightningghost]

.me.uk and .biz are quite rare though aren't they? If someone told you a website address and you half forgot it, the first thing you'd do would be .com wouldn't it?



I just thought .cc sounded quite cool.

[Liszt]

as in 10.cc?

[JonRB]

.ltd.uk is semi-useful if you are a Limited company and the .com and .co.uk are taken (and you can't / don't want to enter into litigation to get the .com or .co.uk) since you can only get the .ltd.uk if you can supply a company registration number for companyname.ltd.uk