.us.com, *.uk.com, *.eu.com but no *.ca.com ?

[psalzmann]

Thought this might be a good place to start.

You can reg:
*.US.COM
*.UK.COM
*.EU.COM
*.DE.COM

But why is there no
*.CA.COM?

or is there?

Thanks

 

[rome2ng]

To my knowledge, no.

Thats a good question, perhaps they feel that the demand is too little.

 

[dhscott]

Judging by WHOIS creation dates, i'd say they just didn't get it in time.

uk.com regged May 1996, ca.com regged February 1996.

Remember, these aren't proper extensions, they are sub-domains of .com so you don't legally own them

 

[tm]

See for yourself, it's a company.
http://ca.com/
Unless they're willing to sell their domain and rebrand their business, it'll be unlikely there will be a *.ca.com any time soon.

 

[psalzmann]

Yes, thanks to all for replying. I just couldn't "not" know what was going on so I did some investigations and it's true.

Domainers are registering 2 letter words to basically do exactly just this! It's all coming together for me now.

What a great way to jump in on the domain name business. Now, I have to ask, how the heck does a normal domain such as "us.com" able to tap into the DNS root server registries (like enom) to offer this as a VALID domain to register?

So basically (from what I gather) this is what's going on:

1. Any normal person can register xx.com or (xxx ie: web.com)
2. Any normal person can hit up the major domain registration offices and attempt to get their domain into a TLD registration format?
3. Any joe, mary or sue can register name.xx.com and it's valid?

To me this sounds like you are hosting a client on cpanel and offering them a subdomain. LOL But the true question is how are they tapping into the mainstream dns settings and configurations so people like you and me have the opportunity to register such a domain.. but using the same process we do now .. for .com, .net. etc? is there a custom whois server built for us.com and uk.com? if so this makes sense. If not, I need some answers.

What gives us.com and / or uk.com rights giving them the full control to do such things? How is this possible? and can anybody else do the same thing?

I guess the only answer to that (who knows?) is that these us.com and uk.com owners are people that are already affililated with the main root server people on the net?

Thanks for your comments!

PS - Yes I'm aware I can take my domain xxx.com and sell you yourname.xxx.com on my own site using my own cpanel, but the question here is how did us.com and uk.com actually make it available to query their whois servers like the rest (on enom)? is this a standard practice everyone and / or anyone can do?

Judging by WHOIS creation dates, i'd say they just didn't get it in time.

uk.com regged May 1996, ca.com regged February 1996.

Remember, these aren't proper extensions, they are sub-domains of .com so you don't legally own them

Hi Thanks for your comment. Just wanted to mention that as far as I'm aware on a personal level, that no domain name has a "legally owned" option. You never "own" the domains you purchase, you are "in legal terms" renting them for as long as you pay for them. I'd imagine it's the exact same deal with a sub domain. In fact, in the case of a .us.com .. there is a much greater chance to loosing the domain due to other problems that can or may arise in the future with the actual "us.com" domain name space. So from what I gathered, it's something people should actually try and stay away from. What would happen is us.com fogot to pay the bill? or was locked into a very large legal battle where they lost the domain?

In so many words, it's like giving someone space on your actual site:
us.com/myname.

Instead, they offer it like a regular domain name: myname.us.com.

Thinking about it more now.. it's a great way for one person or company to take the domain business to a new level... but the way it's being "promoted / marketed" to me puts these guys in a position where it will only succeed with the increasing amount of .com's unavailable.

LOL, why didn't I register xxx.com when I had the chance?

 

[ken135]

lol i feel soory for the CA