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pbrettle

Original Poster:

3,280 posts

290 months

Monday 17th June 2002
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Driving through Cambridgshire the other day and noticed the sign on the back of a bus - for the official website for the Cambridgshire speed cameras.

www.cambridgeshiresafteycameras.co.uk

(please note that I may have spelt the link wrong)

Anyway, the key point is the ".co.uk". Those people out there is PH land who know the internet know that if you are non-profit making etc, you get a .org or government you get a .gov.uk domain name. You only get a .co.uk one if you are actually a company - i.e. profit making.....

e.g.

www.rspca.org.uk
www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk

or

www.microsoft.co.uk
www.compaq.co.uk

Now it seems that speed cameras are infact a profit making company too....

Cheers,

Paul

mattjbatch

1,502 posts

278 months

Monday 17th June 2002
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Well if the inland revenue aren't profit making where does all my fcuking money go???

outlaw

1,893 posts

273 months

Monday 17th June 2002
quotequote all
quote:
Driving through Cambridgshire the other day and noticed the sign on the back of a bus - for the official website for the Cambridgshire speed cameras.

www.cambridgeshiresafteycameras.co.uk

(please note that I may have spelt the link wrong)

Anyway, the key point is the ".co.uk". Those people out there is PH land who know the internet know that if you are non-profit making etc, you get a .org or government you get a .gov.uk domain name. You only get a .co.uk one if you are actually a company - i.e. profit making.....

e.g.

www.rspca.org.uk
www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk

or

www.microsoft.co.uk
www.compaq.co.uk

Now it seems that speed cameras are infact a profit making company too....

Cheers,

Paul


how about registering www.chopCAMdownANDsellFORscrap.co.uk






>> Edited by outlaw on Monday 17th June 07:47

trefor

14,661 posts

290 months

Monday 17th June 2002
quotequote all
quote:
Driving through Cambridgshire the other day and noticed the sign on the back of a bus - for the official website for the Cambridgshire speed cameras.

www.cambridgeshiresafteycameras.co.uk

(please note that I may have spelt the link wrong)

Anyway, the key point is the ".co.uk". Those people out there is PH land who know the internet know that if you are non-profit making etc, you get a .org or government you get a .gov.uk domain name. You only get a .co.uk one if you are actually a company - i.e. profit making.....

e.g.

www.rspca.org.uk
www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk

or

www.microsoft.co.uk
www.compaq.co.uk

Now it seems that speed cameras are infact a profit making company too....

Cheers,

Paul


Sorry Paul, not true. I have a website with the .co.uk suffix and I certainly am not a company.

CarZee

13,382 posts

274 months

Monday 17th June 2002
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Quite - the conventions for domain suffixes have always been 'best practice' rather than compulsory..

I have www.fffnh.com registered in my own name - no company associated... (my company one is a co.uk)

There are lots of people who have a .net domain name - virgin.net email addresses for example - .net should only ever have been granted to ISPs for use in naming their network devices, not for denoting services such as email and web.

Nonetheless, I take your point and yes - I agree... but then it wouldn't matter what their domain name is; they're still money grabbing bubble-wrap-fetishist b'stards!