Reply to: .uk.com domain names -- yes or no

[gadgetman]

I own <myco>.com but as my company is about to close I don't have much use for it.

However for personal use I'd have thought most people would want their domain to be <your surname>.com so they could accept email to anything@<your surname>.com.

Obviously some surnames are very common so you may have to find a different suffix. I ended up with <gadgetman>.net.

[ladymuck]

I have myco.co.uk on automatic forward to myco.com, but never use the co.uk in anything. I just bought it so no-one else can have it. Personally don't see any particular benefit in having a co.uk domain, it's too faffy for my liking.

[Billy Pilgrim]

Now I'm waiting for...

I honestly couldn't bring myself to do it after all those replies

[RichardCranium]

Non-standard domains look cheap.

Except contractorUK.com, of course.

[Lumiere]

billygrim.co.uk /.com is available and has fewer characters to type ..

[Platypus]

billy-pilgrim.com is also available. If you can live with the hyphen that might be a viable option. Bear in mind that most people will probably arrive via a link, whether from an email, another site, or a search engine, so the risk of people mistyping it without the hyphen might not be much of a problem.

Humm, nowadays I prefer domain names without hyphens that are easy to spell (which makes them easily memorable) such as "billy pilgrim all one word". With a domain extension of .com (preferably) or .co.uk (at a push).

This comes from bitter experience: as owner of various domain names, the "clever" ones such as "myco-ltd.com" are a PITA because people NEVER remember them correctly. Whereas stuff like "moon pig" is dead easy to remember.

[RichardCranium]

BILLYPILGRIM.COM

billypilgrim.co.uk is available. best register it quickly tho...

billy-pilgrim.com is also available.

Now I'm waiting for...

'Billy Pilgrim' was just an example based on my login. My real domain will be something different.

[NickFitz]

billypilgrim.co.uk is available. best register it quickly tho...

billy-pilgrim.com is also available. If you can live with the hyphen that might be a viable option. Bear in mind that most people will probably arrive via a link, whether from an email, another site, or a search engine, so the risk of people mistyping it without the hyphen might not be much of a problem.

[bellymonster]

billypilgrim.co.uk is available. best register it quickly tho...

[bellymonster]

Administrative Contact
BILLYPILGRIM.COM
c/o Nameview Inc. Whois IDentity Shield
PO Box 152
Britton's Hill
St. Michael, Barbados
E-mail: vggX/ut7r/KJxUbY6Zgu5h4fdjtK8wCYSpl6BRY0s8eEIp6ALtTsdq0L5A== @2009.identityshield.com
Phone: +1 (604) 484-4206

Domainbrokers.com is authorized by the domain owner to facilitate the sale of this domain.

[Billy Pilgrim]

Non-standard domains look cheap.

Is what I was thinking too

Anyone ideas of how I can find out who owns 'billypilgrim.co.uk' and 'billypilgrim.com' ???

Trawled a few WHOIS sites but they come back with no info

[Fred Bloggs]

Thanks, that's good info.

[RichardCranium]

Non-standard domains look cheap.

[Billy Pilgrim]

If you register billypilgrim.co.uk or billypilgrim.com then the domain you have registered is yours. OTOH billypilgrim.uk.com is not a domain name, it is a subdomain of the domain uk.com, and it belongs to the owners of that domain uk.com. They may well accept money from you to host that subdomain and let you access it, but that is a business deal between you and them, not a registration of a domain.

Excellent reply (as is the one above)

Cheers all

[Spacecadet]

If you register billypilgrim.co.uk or billypilgrim.com then the domain you have registered is yours. OTOH billypilgrim.uk.com is not a domain name, it is a subdomain of the domain uk.com, and it belongs to the owners of that domain uk.com. They may well accept money from you to host that subdomain and let you access it, but that is a business deal between you and them, not a registration of a domain.

WHS although it was 10 years ago that this was explained to me

So in a word, no