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.COM, .NET and .ORG Domain Names Terms
.COM - to be used for commercial and personal sites
.NET - recommended for companies involved in Internet
.ORG - recommended for not-for-profit organizations
Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
Must have less than 63* characters, not including .COM, .NET and .ORG
*.com, .net and .org names exceeding a total of 26 characters are supported by most browsers. However,certain browsers, email programs and other related applications may not support domain names over 26 characters.
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.BIZ Domain Names
.BIZ - WebSite, to be used for commercial sites
Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
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.INFO Domain Names
.INFO - WebSite, to be used for commercial / personal sites
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Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
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.TV Domain Names dotTV Terms
Most domain names available for US $50!
Common dictionary words and phrases** can now be registered at various fixed prices without auction.
Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
Must have less than 50 characters
Also includes 1- to 3- character combinations; see our Registration Agreement for additional details.
.WS Domain Names Terms
.WS - WebSite, to be used for commercial / personal sites
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Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
.WS domains registered through us must have between 2 and 59 characters, not including the .WS extension
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.CC Domain Names
.CC - WebSite, to be used for commercial / personal sites
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Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
.CC domains registered through us can not have more then 45 characters not including the .CC extension.
.US.COM Domain Names
WebSite, to be used for commercial / personal sites
Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
.US.COM domains registered through us can not have more then 63 characters (Minimum 3 characters) including the .US.COM extension.
On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 02:28 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:18:45AM -0700, CMR wrote:
Attorney: "But you registered your domain name in the .com region, aregion
reserved for commercial entities. You dod realize that this was the
implication of .com, right"
Yes, attorneys will do stupid things like that in court.
These guys don't seem to have an issue with it:
http://www.johnkerry.com/
http://www.democrats.com/
http://www.ndol.com/
CMR
<--enter gratuitous quotation that implies my profundity here-->
That some people are morons doesn't make being a moron the right thing to do.
This *is* all about doing the right thing, isn't it?
Cheers,
-- jra
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