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Old 31-07-11, 11:46 PM
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Default gb.com shutdown shows folly of .au.com and similar subdomain usage
All of gb.com shut down today, hot on the heels of the Google banning .co.cc recently,

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CentralNIC sells third-level gb.com domains as a “Great Britain” alternative to .co.uk. A Google search reveals a great many small businesses use the extension for their web sites.

They’re all out of luck today. Anybody attempting to access any .gb.com domain is now welcomed by a placeholder page
http://domainincite.com/fight-over-g...nIncite.com%29
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That sucks. Not sure how centralnic can have 'lost control' of the domain
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Old 01-08-11, 06:53 PM
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That sucks. Not sure how centralnic can have 'lost control' of the domain
The owner would have repossessed it .. Centralnic does not own all of those two letter .com's
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