Tips: Alternatives to Traditional Domain Names (contd.)

Country Sub-Domains

If your domain name is taken, or your country does not exist in the top level domain registry, you might wish to consider registering a country sub-domain via one of the many companies set up for such a purpose.

A country sub-domain is basically a sub-domain of a country.com name. These sub-domains offer a cheaper alternative to a .country domain name, but do not carry quite the same weight.

Basically, the sub-domain relies on the company owning the country.com domain having fast servers, as the sub-domain names will not appear in any lookup tables around the Internet. Also there may be some differences in the rules of ownership between yourname.country and yourname.country.com domain names. Please read the terms and conditions of individual registries very carefully before registering a country sub-domain.

An example of a country sub-domain registry is NomiNation, which administers the uk.com sub-domains . NomiNation aims its services at people whose domain name has already been registered under .uk, or who want a cheaper [20 pounds/year] alternative.

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