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co.cc isn't a tld
How does this answer his question? I am curious as well.
You sir, are an idiot. Where did he mention it's a tld?
On Topic: First I've heard of it
co.cc is a domain
They are a free subdomain provider like DynDNS or Afraid.org
Just another free service abused by spammers/scammers. A lot of co.cc = spam/scams
Google delisted *.co.cc for a long time because of blackhat SEO / malicious stuff.
Didn't co.CC got ban by Google last year?
Ya, but I think the registration for those domain remains active the last time I checked, which was probably like a month ago.
@Taz just co.cc, if you type .cc in google rouletteforum.cc pops up
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Bans-CO-CC-Sites-from-Search-over-Mass-Abuse-209414.shtml
That is what I posted. Co.CC, co.nz and other freebies. My people used to offer freehosting that time.
Found this article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/06/google_cans_11m_dot_co_dot_cc_sites/
I think the regular .cc is not affected...
So is this why .co.cc pulled registration?
Probably one of the factors.
The co.cc domains already registered aren't resolving anymore.
Oops! Google Chrome could not find co.cc
http://puu.sh/1saFH
kooldudehf...
Anyway, this is old new, was another thread about them no longer resolving a few days ago.
Wasn't there already a few threads right here on LET in relation to co.cc. going bye bye for some?
Think I started this one first and someone else started after me...but yes, this is old news and I guess .tk will see a surge in sign ups these days
@zhuanyi I doubt there would be much of a surge, usually what happens is when one free service fails, it tends to cause skeptism with other free services, and the surge wouldn't do much good if most of them was for spam purposes, TK been cracking down on spam quite well.
I am just thinking...are most of the people using .co.cc for spam? Like there might be, say, 2 million domains under co.cc but probably 200k of them are for spam, the rest are legitimate users who might still need a free domain name...
But that might be just my wishful thoughts haha
Well, yes, spamming is a big problem. You can still find a lot of reliable free subdomain at freedns.afraid.org. I'm using them for quite a long time now for small projects, and they are great. (but indexing of the subdomains are disabled for google, i guess because of the spamming and porn and warez etc. reasons)
@zhuanyi I think last time I saw anything related to .co.cc there were offers to buy a few hundred domains with random texts in bulk. Usually when you see something like 100+ domains for 50$ or such, that's cue for appealing to the spam community (like asking someone if they want a thousand gmail accounts for $10).
.co.nz is not a freebie, it's the equivalent of .com/.co.uk/.co.jp/.com.au/etc. for the .nz hierarchy.