Scotland to get it's own domain name
I read a few days ago that Scotland may be getting it’s own tld. The extension would be called .scot or .sco. The first minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, was recently in the Catalonian region of Spain, which got it’s own .cat domain extension 2 years ago, and was impressed to see that it has has since seen over 30,000 registrations.
I was surprised to see this announcement since the uk already has a .co.uk extension however I for one welcome it. I’m not sure if they would restrict registrations to Scottish individuals and companies but domainers usually find a way around that kind of thing anyways.
If the bid for the domain with ICANN next year is successful then perhaps we will see an application for a regional domain name from Northern Ireland, Wales and England too. Companies which do business all over the UK would still prefer the .co.uk extension though I’m sure companies who’s business is more local would be interested in it.
Success University Review | December 18th, 2008 at 2:55 am #
This can only help the local businesses, won’t do much for me but if you own a business in Scotland you should be jumping on a new domain name.
Best internet Marketing | December 31st, 2008 at 5:23 pm #
I will have to do some research on Scotland. Hopefully I can get some of those 2 character domains under my belt.