2009 August 2
by MHB
As you know the most used country code domains, have grown exponentially, as users people in those countries are looking for information and to deal with products in their own country.
However a story in the Telegraph.co.uk highlight the a new problem of using country codes to trick people into thinking they are buying from a “local” business.
According to the story, up to 480,000 sites, representing approximately 6% of all .co.uk domains, which sell goods (rather than informational sites) are based outside the UK, but carry the co.uk domain name. Many of these sites are based in China but use co.uk as part of their domain name, fooling shoppers into thinking the company is UK-based.
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