Royalmail.com

[pne]

I went to royalmail.co.uk. It redirected me to royalmail.com.

What's up with that? I would've thought that they'd register a .uk domain! They're a UK company, for goodness' sake, aren't they?

For me, this is on a level with the fact that the US Army public-facing domain is goarmy.com and not army.mil. (Unless I've misunderstood something.)

Treating top-level domains as meaningless is somehow irking for me. (I also find it weird if German companies get a .com domain, especially local/regional ones such as Hamburger Hochbahn AG—though to their credit, they're also hochbahn.de now.)

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[pne.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

That's in the same league as the company I saw at one point which had multiple FTP servers to choose from when you wanted to download something (perhaps in case one failed, or one was closer to you network-wise, or whatever): ftp.company.com, ftp.company2.com, ftp.company3.com, ftp.company4.com.

Uh, wow.

I also think that something like www.company.de or www.de.company.com (or, as you say, even www.company.com/germany) is better than www.company-germany.com.

Especially the www.de.company.com style is extremely underused, in my (limited) experience, yet it seems a perfect use of DNS subdomains (is that the right term?).