Re: country?
- Subject: Re: country?
- From: i*@easynet.co.uk (Ian Black)
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 15:32:50 MST
Tom Tadfor Little wrote:
> It is often possible to tell from the
>email address. The domains ".com", ".gov", ".org", and ".edu"
>all represent the USA. Other countries generally use a domain
>name that abbreviates the country name, for example ".se" for
>Sweden.
er - not quite, Tom!
If anyone is interested (and I can understand why they may not be), there is
a FAQ on this published regularly in the comp.mail.misc newsgroup. This
lists all the country codes found in name domains. If you want quick web
access, you could try searching for it using the Deja-News or Alta Vista
search engines - the FAQ is entitled
mail/country-codes_
(don't put any spaces before or after the title).
I'll quote from the FAQ on the three-letter bits of the domains.
"The domains in this section are special in that some of them are used in
more than one country..."
This is particularly true for .com domains, which are commonly used by
multinational businesses who don't want their domain to indicate the wrong
country for some of their sites. However, I think that the registration for
these domain types has to be done in the USA - certainly there is a much
longer wait for such registrations - my service provider quotes a couple of
weeks, as compared with the standard "international" type (like mine above).
Your service provider for this sort of domain does not have to be in the US.
Incidentally, there is an international form of US domain available - it is
(surprise, surprise) .us - you don't see it very often though.
So, maybe the country suggestion is a reasonable one. If I used my business
email address, which is a .com one, you might incorrectly assume I was from
the USA!
If anyone's still awake, hope this helps!
Ian
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Ian Black - Alton, Hampshire, UK - ianblack@easynet.co.uk
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