gb.com Domains and others taken down ?

[Normansmith]

Lot's of sites with these extensions have been taken down today ! Capitalnic chasing payments from site owners. Is your site one of these ?

 

[MartBrooks]

What has happened here is that there is a domain called "gb.com". Do not confuse this with a top level domain (such as .com or .not), gb.com is just like google.com or yahoo.com or whatever.

Subdomains under this domain were marketed by a company called CentralNIC. One of the original founders of CentralNIC has been in dispute over who owns that domain. So far he does, and he's asserted his control over the domain in such a way that all the existing subdomains stopped working.

Luckily few people actually use gb.com subdomains for any serious purpose so the damage here is really quite minimal. Anyone wanting to continue using their .gb.com subdomain will need to register with the company now in control.

The .gb.com namespace mostly seems to be a sewer for cybersquatters, SEO peddlers and other such internet lowlifes, so I can't say I'm especially bothered. Certainly none of my customers are affected by this.

Hope this helps.

 

[fisicx]

gb.com is like uk.com - they aren't a tld so if the root domain goes down so does everybody with a subdomain.

You don't pay the registrar for something.gb.com, you pay gb.com - that's who they are chasing.

Already discussed here: http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=1710569

 

[JohnnyCash]

I can't imagine anyone who actually knows what they're doing would get caught out by putting a site on gb.com, uk.com or eu.com... :|