2006-12-23 19:34:36 · 7 answers · asked by Nadia 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Com -> company
co -> also company
difference is the domain name which is selectable by the website owner.
2006-12-23 19:38:33 · answer #1 · answered by BunsTTech 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
A ".com" web address does not mean "communication". And no, it does not mean "computer" either.
Interestingly enough, .com describes that a web site has some kind of "commercial" intent. This is what we call a "top level domain" address, and it used to be a way for a web site to convey its publishing intent.
When the World Wide Web was launched in 1989, these top level domains were used to help categorize the few hundred web sites at the time. Historically, .com web site addresses were for those publishers out to make some kind of profit through their Internet services.
No, having a .com domain name does not mean your web site is a licensed business. In fact, the Internet registration authorities have expanded their criteria to allow most anyone to have a .com address, whether you have a commercial intent or not.
Today, having a .com domain name has no special significance, other than people perceive it to mean you are a serious Internet web site.
Other than perception, .com has no technical difference from a .info or a .biz top level domain name.
Related: there are other top-level domain addresses available to the general public, like .org, which is used to denote "non-profit organization", and .net, which is generally used to denote "network and computer" topics.
Techno trivia: three-letter top-level domains, like .com, .net, and .gov, are nearly always American web sites. Two-letter domains, like .jp and .ca and .co.uk and .nz, are for other countries other than the USA. These country TLD's indicate sites that are published from that part of the world, or that the web site owner is a citizen of that country.
Top level domains with more than three letters: Several new domain names, like .info and .shop, have recently become available since 2005. This is in response to the huge growth of the Web, and that domain name addresses were running out.
2006-12-23 19:39:34 · answer #2 · answered by Ben B 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
.com is commercial which is a TLD domain originally intended for commercial organizations... but now they removed the restriction in the 90s and everyone can own a dot-com whenever they like it.
.co.xx are country code top-level domains (ccTLD), reserved only for their own country
2006-12-23 19:41:33 · answer #3 · answered by Vienna 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
.com used to mean commerical, tho' anyone can have a .com address now if they want.
xxxxxxxxxx.co.uk means the UK website for the company (you might see xxxxxxxxx.co.nz, for instance, which is a New Zealand address)
For interest's sake, .gov stands for a govenrment organisation, anything from your local council upwards.
Hope this helps
2006-12-23 19:51:36 · answer #4 · answered by champer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
.com is a generic (i.e., not country-specific) Internet domain originally intended for COMmercial enterprises. .co is the Internet domain for the country of Colombia. Some countries (such as the UK) use a subdomain of .co inside their country domain for COmmercial enterprises, so you get things like whatever.co.uk .
2006-12-23 19:37:51 · answer #5 · answered by MarnenLK 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
.com stands for commercial web site and .co stands for corporation.
2006-12-23 19:50:39 · answer #6 · answered by Chuck 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
.co is a sub domain
i think com is short for communication
2006-12-23 19:36:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋