very interesting & informative; thank you.
From: Tom Davies <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification To: anne-ology <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Hi :) Some of this is probably obvious but some of it might not be. Each country (except the US) has a different code at the end of addresses, so you get; In the Uk ... www.wonderfulwebsite.org.uk = charitable www.wonderfulwebsite.co.uk = business that aims to make money www.wonderfulwebsite.gov.uk = government, local councils, etc In Russia ... www.wonderfulwebsite.org.ru www.wonderfulwebsite.co.ru www.wonderfulwebsite.gov.ru (except they use different codes instead of .org, .gov and .co and probably the whole of it using a different alphabet too). Really vast charities or businesses also use the ... www.wonderfulwebsite.org www.wonderfulwebsite.com Of course anyone can buy whatever type of ending they like and use it anywhere. There is not much restriction on it - so a small charity might buy a ".co.uk" address instead of ".org.uk" in order to "look more professional" and businesses might buy a ".org" or ".org.uk" in order to look like they are doing good in the world. Many organisations try to buy-up all the ones so that people only have to remember the "wonderfulwebsite" bit Regards from Tom :) On 17 March 2015 at 17:16, anne-ology <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks for this information. > > I thought .us was similar to .gov ;-) > > > > From: elderdanlewis <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:54 AM > Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > This is Phishing. Look at the email address of the email > administrator. It is not a Google account. Anyone working at Google would > not use an email address ending with .us. > > Dan > > > > From: anne-ology <[email protected]> > Date:03/16/2015 10:42 AM (GMT-05:00) > To: [email protected] > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification > > is this for real or not? > I cannot believe this is for real therefore I'm ignoring it; > yet I'm curious as to how these inane ideas occur to some folks. > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
