On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 15:06 -0200, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Herbert Graf wrote:
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> > The shortest you normally see a .com is 3 characters,=20
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> This sort of thought is exactly the problem. "Normally"?=20
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> http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt shows 247 two-letter
> country domains (which includes US :) and only 21 "other" domains with
> 3+ letters. (I'm excluding the XN-- test domains here.)

That's not what I'm talking about.

It's common for the country domain is only 2 characters, many sites I
visit are .ca.

The problem is there are very few COMMON domains with 2 character +
whatever, i.e. ab.com isn't something people are used to seeing, abc.com
is.

As a result, some coders assume that if you domain is only 2 characters
then you're up to something.

I'm not saying I think it's a good idear, I don't (for example .co.uk is
VERY common) but I do understand how some web coders think that way.

TTYL

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