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http://www.google.co.sr/ What?

Mike Scott [PersonRank 1]

Monday, February 12, 2007
17 years ago4,179 views

http://www.google.co.sr/ <-- Seems to just be an ad-bearing proxy to google. Whats going on, and couldn't this quite easily fool the user?

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

and logo..
its a tree..

WTF?

maybe Tony knows something about this.. ?!

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Well, I know as much as you guys :-) but here goes...

The top level domain is actually .sr – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.sr – and it seems someone is giving away .co.sr subdomains.

So, this domain isn't owned by Google but they could easily have set it up. (If you view the source, it's actually a frameset that just includes Google.com as the main frame.) Then again, someone could quite easily have set it up too...

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

so youre saying that if i wanna buy this domain.. i can?

Derry Quinn [PersonRank 2]

17 years ago #

Yes notice that it reflects your local page. Mine reads "Google.ie as Gaelige" though it still shows google.co.sr

Derry Quinn [PersonRank 2]

17 years ago #

You can get a free .co.sr a http://nic.co.sr/eng/index.html

Derry Quinn [PersonRank 2]

17 years ago #

here are mine http://www.windowslive.co.sr
   http://outer-court.co.sr

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Weird. I just registered http://blogoscoped.co.sr just for testing. I wouldn't have realized it's only a subdomain if not for Tony's explanation...

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