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The choice of a .com TLD instead of a .uk for a thing called "national" is really odd to me.
by myself248 3y ago
The choice of a .com TLD instead of a .uk for a thing called "national" is really odd to me.
- timthorn 3y agoNational Grid has operations in the USA these days, it's no longer a UK only business.
- seabass-labrax 3y ago.com is short for 'commercial'. The USA has their own .us TLD, but for some reason the Americans never particularly wanted to use it. National Grid Ventures is registered in the UK, so they would be eligible for a *.uk domain if they wanted one.
- mkl 3y agoAnd .gov is short for "government", but only the USA's, and .edu is short for "education", but only the USA's. There were strange third-level-only location-based restrictions on .us for a long time, created by the one guy (!) responsible for it, so it didn't get much use in the critical 1990s period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us
- lmm 3y agoLots of "national" US companies use .com instead of .us, it's not that unusual.