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Re: My New Year's Question

Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 210.55.161.92
Date: Friday, January 4, 2002, at 00:34:26
In Reply To: Re: My New Year's Question posted by ahmoacah on Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 15:21:54:

>
> > > La".ws is one of the strangest US extensions I've ever seen"Zorra
> >
> > What does .ws stand for? Worksheet? Walk, stand? Some ISP? I'm intrigued.
> >
> > Hi"easily intrigued"ri
>
> .ws isn't a US top-level domain; it's Western Samoa. Several countries
> sell domain names outside their country, just to make money.

The example I'm most familiar with is Tuvalu, whose .tv is in *hot* demand almost everywhere except in Tuvalu itself. I also used to know a number of businesses in the Cook Islands through work, and they invariably hated their .ck, since its location right after the .co tended to make their URL look like a porn site.

Brunnen-".nz"G

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