Any real sales of .uk?

[martin-s]

Did they not spend £100k+ on applying for .bbc?

 

[Skinner]

Didn't .to offer a shortening service some years ago, which the urls were http://to./word (this is a valid url), currently http://to./ resolves a website.

Nothing stopping the bbc doing http://bbc./news, but the learning curve for people to include that period, would be insane.

Monkey, you're correct about "news.bbc" not obviously being a URL. However I believe that "bbc/news" would also resolve, or if it currently wouldn't we'll soon see browsers update to accept URL's without a fullstop/period/dot. If/when browsers do accept URLs without fullstops/periods/dots, I believe it'll be much more likely that we'll see addresses in the format of gTLD/something than something.gtld.


(from iPad - K)

 

[BeachLife]

First use I have come across www.total.uk

 

[Retired_Member38]

First use I have come across www.total.uk

This would be a far better example if Total didn't have a standalone website on total.co.uk though...

 

[Stephen]

Bbc

Did they not spend £100k+ on applying for .bbc?

They also spent a lot more on acquiring BBC.com

As BBC is truly a world brand, I would guess that .bbc is brand protection
and future proofing in case it is needed by trend and usage.

I hope they move over to BBC.uk and Nominet did say in consultation meetings they had a made a pitch to BBC about the benefits of UK namespace for their domain name over .com and .bbc (which Nominet helped with).

 

[Retired_Member38]

I believe that if brand gTLDs can effectively act like direct navigation keywords in the address bar, bypassing any search from the address bar feature that a browser might support, we'd be able to type in "bbc" within the address bar and arrive directly at the BBC web site without getting a search engine in between.

http://gs.statcounter.com

Consider which company owns the top browser and why they might have a slight objection to search engines being bypassed

 

[Skinner]

I can't remember what the company were calld but there was a toolbar which years ago introduced .cars and .cool etc. They were actually sub domains which the browser object converted to like TLDs.

Perhaps room for a new toolbar company to do as you suggest. Check the url for bbc/news and test is bbc is a gTLD, then execute the move.

 

[Retired_Member38]

Perhaps room for a new toolbar company to do as you suggest. Check the url for bbc/news and test is bbc is a gTLD, then execute the move.

So you're expecting people to install a toolbar, which will then let them type bbc/news instead of news.bbc ?

Why would they possibly want to do that ?

 

[Skinner]

I don't expect them to for that alone. People install tool bars for many reasons. GamersUnite, CashBack, Internet Radio, whatever.

It also wouldn't be limited to just the BBC, and personally I wouldn't use it either and expect it would bomb, was merely stating someone could do such a thing if they wished.

So you're expecting people to install a toolbar, which will then let them type bbc/news instead of news.bbc ?

Why would they possibly want to do that ?

 

[Murray]

Campings was sold with just the .uk, £7,500

Just remembered that

 

[DaveP]

Just remembered that

Can you remember to reply to your messages please?

 

[julian]

this is the scary one - I almost shed a tear for IE http://gs.statcounter.com/#all-browser-ww-monthly-200812-201410


Ironically i thought latest versions of IE seem ok.

So what happened to FF - seemed they were smashing it 3 years ago now dying.

 

[DaveP]

this is the scary one - I almost shed a tear for IE http://gs.statcounter.com/#all-browser-ww-monthly-200812-201410


Ironically i thought latest versions of IE seem ok.

So what happened to FF - seemed they were smashing it 3 years ago now dying.

Nothing wrong with Firefox or the others per se, it's just Chrome is really that good for a number of reasons.

 

[PoshTiger]

Unless you use office 365. Chrome doesn't work well for admin, so I've seen quite a few companies roll out Firefox on 10,000 computers as they can't upgrade the OS