Domain names can falsely lure users
The type of domain name that a website uses is not necessarily authorised any more, it has been claimed, and can be attained by almost anyone.
Record sales of certain domain names with popular key words highlight the importance of the name of site, yet communications supplier Pipex Hosting has stated that these names are often not actually what they describe.
While there was an original number of rules designed to control what group was classified as an organisation and which were considered a business, Macsen Galvin, development director of Pipex Hosting said today “a lot of registries took a very laissezy-faire kind of approach to see how [the internet] would grow”.
Mr Galvin explained that for a “.org” domain name, a group must in theory be a non-commercial organisation, but in practice “people will go and get a ‘.org’ address if their choice of a ‘.com’ or ‘.co.uk’ isn’t available“.
Users can be confused about which sites are true to their domain names and while Mr Galvin said some sites like the “.kids.us” registrar enforce strict codes for using certain domains, the ones that do not could cause users to be suspicious of any website they use in the future.
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