Northern Ireland has its own domainname now !

[holidaysong]

www.nic.co.ni

It brands itself as "THE POLITICALLY CORRECT DOMAIN"


Every company or hobbyist-webhost here in Northern Ireland has a dilemma: register a .co.uk and you insult the Nationalists, register a .ie and you insult the Unionists. Whatever you do, always 50% of the fellow Ulster folks won't like it.

Solution ? Register a .CO.NI !

UTV have both www.utv.ie and www.utv.co.uk. I think this is the best way to do it. Also if you can't choose between .co.uk or .ie then you could use www.u.tv. UTV really do make the complicated world of Northern Ireland internet use so easy and inoffensive...

[dcfcsteve]

UTV have both www.utv.ie and www.utv.co.uk. I think this is the best way to do it. Also if you can't choose between .co.uk or .ie then you could use www.u.tv. UTV really do make the complicated world of Northern Ireland internet use so easy and inoffensive...

UTV have business operations in the Republic - hence the utv.ie.

I think you're reading a bit more into a simple and obvious domain registration/protection process than is required.

[Thunderblaster]

Sure there are internet users in the Republic that uses .co.uk, for example; paddymurphy@yahoo.co.uk, so what is the big deal? The people of Ulster are just seen as Irish over the water, full stop.

[Gerrit]

Sure, .co.uk is one of the better known extentions across the world and Nominet policies make theft almost impossible. And it is damn cheap: www.ukreg.com charges 2 GBP only per year

NI companies that really care about image can best register both .co.uk and .ie, or go for something non country-specific such as .com, .info or ffs even fake global extentions like .ws (though I doubt if these are any good for commercial purposes).
Or: buy a .eu.com subdomain from CentralNIC which is a bit cheaper and long enough around to be labelled as stable.

By the way: UTV must pay a huge amount for u.tv ; TV domains are extra expensive when less than 3 characters

[dcfcsteve]

Gerrit - you haven't corrected the spelling of Beal Feirste yet. (there's a fada accent over the 'e' in Beal).

[Sliogán Dóite]

Also Gerrit - referring to NI as Ulster may offend those from Donegal, Monaghan & Cavan (who aren't Northern Irish)
.
Remember:
Donegal, Monaghan, Cavan - DMC - Don't Mix Counties

[Gerrit]

Location corrected I could have stated "South Belfast" as well ; the class part of town (I do live there, but I don't like to show off, so I'll just ditch the idea...)

[Gerrit]

By the way, another shameless domain trick (even worse than considering .NI to stand for Northern Ireland) :


.IN = India, they try to sell it as INternet



They label as "the most generic ccTLD in the world"...

Why does a country with over 1000000000 inhabitants (the second largest potential marketplace in the world) need to use a cheap trick to sell its domains abroad?? As if there aren't enough people and companies in India to buy domains. This is so cheap it's getting ridiculous.

At least .TV makes sense (even though it should be Tuvalu's domainname), but which person is going to link .IN to the term "INternet" ?!