The .uk.co domain is a privately owned domain registry set up as an alternative to .co.uk (which is now very short of good available names).

We are offering .uk.co domains at $14.95 for 2 years
Including:


10MB Web Space (no ads)
POP3 E-mail
Webmail
E-mail redirection


.uk.co domains work like any other domain name and can be delegated for use with any web hosting company at no additional charge.

Search for available domains at:
http://www.nameroute.com/

Other domains available with the same great package.

Gordon
Hostroute.com

A little reminder... please do not post 'under' another host's advertisement, rather feel free to start your own thread in this forum.

GordonH,

Where did you get uk.co?

I went to http://www.nic.co/ and I could not find
any information for registering myname.co?

BTW, how much is it?

TA.

anto.

http://www.uk.co

GordonH,

What I mean is, I'd like to register myname.co.
But at http://www.nic.co/ I could see any info on that.
On that website they just allow .com.co, .net.co etc.

Thanks.

OK
I looked into this a while ago and you need to be a Colombian Citizen.
There is a more complex application process (read: more money to change hands).
I had to transalate part of the web site to get to the bottom of it.

They are quite protective because they know you could make a great redirector or private domain registry from something like us.co.
I don't know how the uk.co people did it.

On a similar note, anyone can register .com.pa (panama) but we were recently asked to register one for someone with a business related to Pennsylvania.

There is a lot of inventive thinking going on these days with domain extensions.

Gordon

I hope you don't mind this expansion of the topic but you reminded me that I had better figure out my international domain needs soon.

If my new web portal (substantially different than existing web portals) at websitename.com is successful and I want to make the portal easily accessible to other English speaking countries (those outside the USA) or, e.g., people in Spanish-speaking countries, what should I do?
What are the advantages to putting a web site at URLs with different country domains? Is it very important? If I make a Spanish version, would picking just one "Spanish" domain, e.g., Spain be satisfactory or would it be important to have a domain for every Spanish-speaking country (and every English-speaking country for the English version)? Wow, what a pain that would be!

Where would I go to learn about and purchase all of the different domains. I am already confused with just .uk.co and .co.uk; how would I know which one or two or?? domains to purchase for each language or country?

Thanks in adavance for any guidance you can provide.

Hello
There is very little advantage in having country versions of your main domain except when local search engines will only list sites with local extensions.

The official uk domains are .co.uk. .org.uk (with restricted ones like .net.uk and .ltd.uk)

We use hostroute.com for our US business and hostroute.co.uk for our uk business because the payment currencies are different.
I have been toying with .eu when it comes out and doing a multilingual french/german/spanish site with payment in Euros.

This is the only sort of reason I can see for having all the country extensions as having multiple sites is a real pain for updates.

We have even stopped buying fully qualified domain names and started issuing subdomains on our main domains for our own projects.

Gordon