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Hi

I'm just in the process of hunting down a domain name.

I've found I can get what I would like with ".me.uk" but I don't know
what the "me" is for?

In the UK ".ac.uk" is used for academic institutions, whereas ".co.uk"
is by far the most common extension and I guess it is much the same as
".com" for "commerical business" internationally.

I wonder if ".me.uk" is intended for medical institutions?

An alternative is that maybe it is for one's personal web-site, the
"me" meaning, well "me" ?



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Patrick
Brighton, UK

patrick j <> wrote:

> Hi

How do you do?

> I'm just in the process of hunting down a domain name.
>
> I've found I can get what I would like with ".me.uk" but I don't know
> what the "me" is for?
>
> In the UK ".ac.uk" is used for academic institutions, whereas ".co.uk"
> is by far the most common extension and I guess it is much the same as
> ".com" for "commerical business" internationally.
>
> I wonder if ".me.uk" is intended for medical institutions?

nope

> An alternative is that maybe it is for one's personal web-site, the
> "me" meaning, well "me" ?

aye - that's the one

http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAss...net%20me.uk%22

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William Tasso

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:27:55 +0100, patrick j
<> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I'm just in the process of hunting down a domain name.
>
>I've found I can get what I would like with ".me.uk" but I don't know
>what the "me" is for?
>
>In the UK ".ac.uk" is used for academic institutions, whereas ".co.uk"
>is by far the most common extension and I guess it is much the same as
>".com" for "commerical business" internationally.
>
>I wonder if ".me.uk" is intended for medical institutions?

Nope

>An alternative is that maybe it is for one's personal web-site, the
>"me" meaning, well "me" ?

Thats pretty much the case. To me its a pretty lame one to want to
use, but has been added so there are more domain names to ....er...
sell !
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On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:43:37 +0100, William Tasso wrote
(in article <op.tgqtmzdl3jnr2w->):

> aye - that's the one
>
>
http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAss...sltSummaryapri
l.pdf#
> search=%22nominet%20me.uk%22

Thank you

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Patrick
Brighton, UK

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 18:54:37 +0100, guv wrote
(in article <>):

> Thats pretty much the case. To me its a pretty lame one to want to
> use, but has been added so there are more domain names to ....er...
> sell !

Oddly enough it struck me as being quite a good idea

It's all a matter of taste I guess.

I think you are quite right that the desire must be to sell more domain
names.

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Patrick
Brighton, UK