Posted by guv on 10/01/06 17:54

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:27:55 +0100, patrick j
<patrick@jamesnews.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I'm just in the process of hunting down a domain name.
>
>I've found I can get what I would like with ".me.uk" but I don't know
>what the "me" is for?
>
>In the UK ".ac.uk" is used for academic institutions, whereas ".co.uk"
>is by far the most common extension and I guess it is much the same as
>".com" for "commerical business" internationally.
>
>I wonder if ".me.uk" is intended for medical institutions?

Nope

>An alternative is that maybe it is for one's personal web-site, the
>"me" meaning, well "me" ?

Thats pretty much the case. To me its a pretty lame one to want to
use, but has been added so there are more domain names to ....er...
sell !
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