.au.com names

[jhellyer]

Hi All,

I am noticing more and more the registration of .au.co. names instead of the otherway around...they seem to be US generated....I didn't think you could use a dot instead of a hyphen etc? A few of these seem to be coming from netregistry or an affiliate? Any ideas....are they worth looking into?

 

[Shane]

Stay away would be my advice. It's just a subdomain of the .co extension.

 

[Lorenzo]

It's garbage.

 

[snoopy]

Run for the hills.

 

[FirstPageResults]

Something relevant to this:

11mil .co.cc sub-domains dumped from Google index

Google has removed over 11 million .co.cc websites from its search engine results pages on the basis that most of them are far too "spammy".

The .co.cc space is not an officially authorised second-level domain like .co.uk or .com.au. Rather, it's offered independently by a Korean company (http://co.cc/) that just happens to own the domain name .co.cc.

Google classes the firm as a "freehost", and has exercised its right to block the whole domain "if we see a very large fraction of sites on a specific freehost are spammy or low-quality", according to Matt Cutts, head of Google's web spam team.

The company said in a recent blog post: "To help protect users we recently modified those [malware-scanning] systems to identify bulk subdomain services which are being abused. In some severe cases our systems may now flag the whole bulk domain."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/06/google_cans_11m_dot_co_dot_cc_sites/