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Con Artist.scot

Posted on by John Yunker

Registering top-level domain names can be a little confusing. There are country-code domain names (TLDs), like .de for Germany and .jp for Japan, and then there are the generic TLDs, like .com and .net. But be warned that there are NO TLDs like .scot or .brit.

Someone was making a nice living off of unsuspecting people. You can read about it here.

You should also be careful about multilingual domain names. These too, though they may indeed work, are also not official.

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Written by John Yunker

John is co-founder of Byte Level Research and author of The Web Globalization Report Card.

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