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04/29/2002 12:09 AM
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#66357
04/29/2002 12:29 AM
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I just don't see this as a private site.
Well, then I guess we'll have to just agree to disagree on this one, ewein. I believe it's a privately owned site in a public domain. My guess is that if Anu decides that this place has gone to pot, and he's had enough of it, he won't be asking for our opinion on whether to pull the plug or not! IMHO...
Can we get back to talking about words and language now? 
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#66358
04/29/2002 12:40 AM
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he has a .org domain name.. i don't know if that requires him to be non profit or not
No, it doesn't, just as you don't have to be running a network or actually own a company to have .net or .com. Anyone can buy these three at just about any web domain retailer. There is, though, some type of restriction on . edu, .gov etc. I wonder, do you have to be a company in the UK to get .co.uk?
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04/29/2002 1:27 AM
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#66360
04/29/2002 2:26 AM
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While it doesn't pertain to a particular word, IMHO it very much belongs here. I like inselpeter's (and others who have replied) idea that we have some standards (constitution, agreement, whatever) on this board.
I don't disagree with you here, ewein, but I think we're discussing a moot point. I think you'll find most everyone here agrees that there should be standards (oopsie -- prolly shouldn't speak for anyone else) but haven't we discussed them to death now? Inselpeter's original post was perfectly legitimate and I'm sorry if I communicated in any way that I didn't think that it was a truly valuable post in the appropriate forum. Thus my suggestion was that we all get on out of I&A and get into the healthy, perfectly reasonable, high standard of discussions about words and language going on in the other fora.
Pack up yer wagons, folk... off we go to Q&A, Wordplay and Fun or even a little [cheeky grin-e] Miscellany! 
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#66361
04/29/2002 7:28 AM
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>do you have to be a company in the UK to get .co.uk? No, my business has one and it is not a limited company, the rules have changed recently and are at http://www.nic.uk/rules/rup2.html
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#66362
04/29/2002 11:43 AM
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>>Thus my suggestion was that we all get on out of I&A and get into the healthy, perfectly reasonable, high standard of discussions about words and language going on in the other fora.
Hear hear, (or was it here here) hev, I agree wholeheartedly. Let's get back to the fun.
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04/29/2002 11:47 AM
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the other fora.
yeahbut® ~ there's fiva
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#66364
04/29/2002 1:28 PM
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>do you have to be a company in the UK to get .co.uk?
No, my business has one and it is not a limited company
Actually, I meant more do you have to be in the UK to get .co.uk. Can you get that, or any other country specific address if you're in another country? Obviously, there's the famous complete purchase of Tuvalu's .tv domain by some corporation, but I'm not sure about the rules for other countries.
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04/29/2002 1:48 PM
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Well, the rules for Canada are given here: http://www.cadomains.ca/rules.htm The gist of it is, to register a company's domain name to end in .ca you have to have a "strong" Canadian connection (certain percentage of employees, etc., being Canadian citizens or Permanent Residents). The trademark rule is interesting. You can register a domain name using only the exact wording of the trademark if that trademark is registered in Canada. So (for example) yahoo.ca gives me a Canadian version of yahoo.com, even though the guys at Yahoo! most likely don't live here.
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