I worried about this over a decade ago and asked friends who'd registered under these subterfuge domains for their reasons. Mainly the domains were business branding exercises and this was done to get a domain under what they perceived to be the key brand on the Internet, .com.
There was a clear perception at the time that uk.com had higher brand value than .co.uk for a preferred name. Today I find that out of 3448 contacts only four use .uk.com, two in the same subdomain delegation, and none depend on uk.com as their main domain. Christian On 2 Aug 2011, at 09:10, Chris Edwards wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Brandon Butterworth wrote: > >> 1996 wants its stupid tld tricks domain back. Why would anyone >> still go for this sort of thing, uk.com seems to have died out >> at least. > > At a guess, some registrars sell them as if they're normal domains, > and some less tech-savy customers fall for it. > >
