Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck@gmail.com):
Rohan McLeod wrote:
Which opens up the possibility of a conversation: " I notice your organisation doesn't have a ".us" domain name; which of the above criteria does it not fulfill ? " :- )
I once asked why hcoop.net was not h.coop. They met the criteria, but a .coop registration was significantly more expensive than a .net registration. (sigh!)
IME US companies don't bother with a .us domain because the .com/.edu/.mil &c TLDs are implicitly US-centric, so why bother with a ccTLD?
The major gTLDs are not so much implicitly US-centric as they are Internet default assumptions among users everywhere. Let's see, examples: Most famous company of Scotland is arguably The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (RBS), which is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotlands Group plc. The holding company is at http://www.rbs.com/, which cross-links to the retail banking site for the UK, http://www.rbs.co.uk/ Famous German company? Let's try Bayer AG. Corporate site is http://www.bayer.com/ . (There are of course many subsidiaries.) Famous French company? Citroen SA, which I see is now part of holding company PSA Peugeot Citroen Group. Corporate site: http://www.citroen.com/ (There are national subsidiary sites including http://www.citroen.com.au/ and http://www.citroen.co.uk/ .) Hmm, Air France (technically, Société Air France, S.A.) -- can't get much more French than that. It's part of holding company Air France-KLM Group, and the French Republic owns a bit over 50% of the shares of one or the other of those. Corporate site: http://www.airfrance.com/ My point is that the major gTLDs are an international default assumption, much more than they are 'implicitly US-centric'.