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Navigating_the_Global_Internet
| Navigating the Global Internet
If you have clients or customers in other countries and work on
the Internet, here’s a primer to help you decipher the URLs and
emails you’ll be receiving.
First of all, extensions. The most common are .com, for
commercial sites; .edu or .ac for educational sites; .gov for
government sites; and .org for organizational sites.
There are also other extensions people use such as .net and .cc
for various reasons, one of them being that their name was taken
at the .com level, and another being cost. For example, my name
is Susan Dunn. SusanDunn.com belongs to someone who sells spa
products, so I had to go to .cc in order to be able to use my
own name.
Next, the United States uses no further extension, but every
other country does. The extensions of other countries will
always include the .xx code in their respective URLs. It’s good
to start getting familiar with them. If you’re like me, you’re
already receiving emails with .mu or .ag and wondering where
they’re from
Some of these make perfect sense. Here are some examples:
Brazil .br Canada .ca Italy .it
Some make no sense unless you’re looking under what that country
calls itself. Examples would be Great Britain, Ireland and
Germany. Here are their extensions:
United Kingdom .uk Ireland .ie Germany .de
Then there are the ones that make no sense whatsoever:
Samoa .ws Cayman Islands .ky Mauritius .mu Dominican Republic .do
And then there are the ones for a country you didn’t know
existed, at least I didn’t:
Sao Tome and Principe .st Chad .td Kiribati .ki
In order to market and succeed you need to know where your
business and customers are coming from, so pay attention to
extensions.
You may also want to submit your website on search engines
covering these countries which are starting to appear.
Here is a website where all the extensions and country codes are
listed: http://www.bitmedia.com/info . Click on the link at the
extreme bottom left saying "Internet Information."
About the author:
©Susan Dunn, MA, Internet Marketing Coach,
http://www.webstrategies.cc . Web strategies that bring you
business. Ebook launch, article-submission, web design, web
copy. Let me help you to success. Mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc .
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