.com?

Hello

Maybe this should have been a survey, but at least, do any of you have an idea why most web-developers choose .com for their site name? Okay, first, they aren't going for .gov; that's far out of reach, but there are still .net, .org, why they choose .com? (actually, I wonder too why our forums use .com too)

 

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Quick rundown:

(For the explaination the * placed into an affix means a country code e.g. .ac.* could be .ac.us or .ac.uk)

.gov stands for US Government (.gov.* for other governments) and is only available to Class A networks which happens to only be available to Goverments and the largest of Organisations. (Like the U.N. etc)

.com stands for Commercial it's available to everyone and doesn't really suffer any restrictions, it's more pricer than some of the others but it's the mainstream affix for a domain.

.org stands for a US Organisation (.org.* for other countries), although it was generated with organisations in mind it is available to everyone. There is a restriction on .org extensions that a website has to be either be one that doesn't sell anything or is a Charity.
.org's are also used for people and parties involving themselves in projects like Research where their outcomes and progress is being displayed on the web.


.ac.* stands for an Academic Domain name, these are only available through proper vetting to prove they are an established and accredited Academic institute.

There are other extensions too:

.biz recently got released in the UK, as you can tell this stands for Business and is probably likely to be used by those in suits that want to keep a track on their stocks and shares. (although it's open to everyone)

.info another recent one, I gather it is meant for information that the public should be aware of and contains sites that do not sell things.

It is in fact possible to have one of the registerar companies to generate a whole extension, but you would have to pay them money to do it and have your own DNS available for them to point to (and thats all if it gets past their committee)

 

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i picked .com for myself, because it seems to be the standard thing to do. So I took the sheep approach.
.co.uk would have been slightly cheaper, but then people would have thought I might be based in the UK.

and people might remember that the domain name is 'spuriousmonkey' and the first thing they will try is to type: spuriousmonkey.com and not something else.

hence I went for .com because it seems be standard.

 

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Stryder
Just an addition: Seems that .ac is pretty much similar to .edu (the one my uni uses)

suprious
Does that mean that in the past (net past) most web developers go by the site .com for so long that everyone tends to type .com now?

 

germans ( europeans!? ) don´t use .com .... so .com is unimportant

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what do germans use then?

.de?

 

.de ,of course

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i guess there are millions of .de pages !

 

but every country has a million of its own country code pages.

that is hardly surprising is it?

the question is of international orientated webpages use .de in germany more than in other countries?

 

here´s an example how works often :

ministry of foreign affairs

( change the languages at the top )
is that what you mean ?

btw , i thought the question was whether .com is really so important .....

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hmmm .... i just found this the same link but .com

so the most important languages/countries get their own server ( and hence their own extension )

 

.ca is more important than .de.

The top ten countries for Internet network density.

Code:

Rank  Assigned  In range  Overall  Abbrev  Country 

1     74.12%    21.70%    38.86%   US      United States 
2     4.32%     59.52%    76.28%   JP      Japan 
3     3.01%     34.48%    52.85%   UK      United Kingdom 
4     2.49%     42.05%    65.63%   CA      Canada 
5     1.91%     48.13%    88.47%   DE      Germany 
6     1.54%     61.62%    103.38%  CN      China 
7     1.33%     27.26%    143.78%  FR      France 
8     1.18%     38.60%    112.69%  KR      Republic of Korea 
9     1.17%     61.22%    172.83%  NL      Netherlands 
10    1.02%     56.02%    72.47%   AU      Australia

For a country of 30 million, Canada sure beats the crap out of Germany, which has 80 million people.



And don't forget .mil, which is for U.S. military. They have the largest IP space of any organization in the world.

72,768,768 IPs belong to DISO-UNRRA (http://www.crcc.disa.mil/)
44,239,059 IPs belong to Level 3 Communications, LLC.
35,685,181 IPs belong to UUNET Technologies, Inc.
29,367,586 IPs belong to AT&T Worldnet Services
27,778,245 IPs belong to SBC Internet Services - Southwest

And there you have the five largest networks in the world.


.edu is U.S. educational institutions. .ac and .co goes with the British way of assigning domans, so you get .ac.uk and .co.uk. (Who knows why they had to do that...)

 

.ca is more important than .de.

and the point you´re trying to make is ???


btw , go back to politics , we all ( especially dc ) are missing you there

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btw, although the US comes top of the list, you have to note that every .com or .org or .net is refered to being US. Some of those are actually used by other people in other countries, so the figures would be slightly out I would guess.

As for the US military having the most IP's, well thats understandible, without the US military there wouldn't have been an internet.

 

There are also a few other domain extensions. .edu is one of them, that being for educational addresses (like a student at a University might get one)

 

indeed. I am based in finland, my host is in England. So much for US origin.

 

Well, I also once used Angelfire, which is of course not based in Asia.... so?