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by misev 2975 days ago
Germany doesn't seem to care much about http://germany.com :)
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ada1981 2975 days ago
Or UnitedStates.com - a spam site

Or America.com (a godaddy page).

Could this guy sue Web.com?

Maybe he can win the fight to Web.com on behalf of the WWW.

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libria 2974 days ago
Back in the early 2000's whitehouse.com used to be a patriotic-themed adult site. So I'm told...
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hliyan 2974 days ago
You are correct. Accidentally went there once when I was supposed to go to whitehouse.gov. Needless to say, there were images of many interns...
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ada1981 2974 days ago
I checked out whitehouse.gov recently and they now feature a guy who previously co-starred with Stormy Daniels.
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RandomCSGeek 2974 days ago
I guess most <country_name>.com domains are not owned by the governments, as .com is quite old, and geeks would have got them long before govts thought of having a website.

To add to the list, brazil.com(website inaccessible), russia.com, india.com(news website), china.com, southafrica.com

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ams6110 2974 days ago
Maybe they would care if it were deutchland.de.
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Brushfire 2975 days ago
They probably are now.
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