Monday, August 17, 2009

Watchout! Br.com Is Not A Brazil ccTLD

Today while reading namepros forum, came across this post where one of the user bought 4 .br.com domains assuming they were Brazil ccTLD domains, however it turns out to be a nice little expensive purchase since official Brazil ccTLD is .br while 3rd level is .com.br!

One of the Portuguese blog has more information (user translator to read) here
Apparently CentralNic has purchased a number of 2 letter country code domains and now selling 'SUBDOMAINS' to unsuspecting users.

They claim that this is an alternative to saturated TLD's - as per their website "CentralNic's domains provide an alternative to the existing Top Level Domains (TLDs) and Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs), allowing the creation of a simultaneously local and global Internet Identity."

Some of the TLD's CentralNic offers are
  • yourname.eu.com - European Union
  • yourname.us.com - United States
  • yourname.gb.com - Great Britain
  • yourname.uk.com - Great Britain
  • yourname.de.com - Germany
  • yourname.ru.com - Russia
So watch out before you rush to purchase yourname.xx.com domain - you may pay 7-8 times for a domain name - which technically isn't a domain name, but a subdomain for the fancy xx.com domain!

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