Um, not to put too fine a point on it, from the folks who pay, seems a lot of good reasons apparently. And since the 'real estate' don't have to be in Colombia......well.... FWIW and depending on the point of view, brilliant....or weak-minded.....Germans register with Dotag. for a good euro. And brilliant........or weak-minded Chinese....send their converted yuan to register with Dotpr. Helluva thing when reason meets digital commerce.....and long may it continue! Carlton ================================================================================= On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:09 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
.CO INTERNET: .CO absolutely cannot and will not be marketed as a typo
to .COM.
This is what we refer to as "wink, wink, nudge, nudge."
If you're not in Colombia, what other plausible reason is there to register a domain there, for three times the price of one in .COM?
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
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