I read this on the net, in an casual remark, and after reading this
Wikipedia entry it is confirmed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cc
For some reason the Cocos islands, population 500, in the middle of
the Indian Ocean and nominally administered by Australia, have this
domain ending.
RL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cc
..cc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cocos
(Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory. It is administered by
VeriSign through a subsidiary company eNIC, which promotes it for
international registration as "the next .com"; .cc was originally
assigned in October 1997 to eNIC Corporation of Seattle WA by the
IANA. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus also uses the .cc
domain, along with .nc.tr.
With the help of SamsDirect Internet, eNIC managed and marketed the
top level domain with great success to become the "second largest TLD
registry in the United States second only to Verisign" according to
Brian Cartmell, founder and CEO of eNIC[1] who testified before the
United States Senate in regard to The Governance of the Domain Name
System by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers on
February 4, 2001. Much of the success of the domain sales came as a
direct result of Sams entering into a deal with the largest radio
broadcaster in the United States, Clear Channel (CC) Communications,
to advertise and promote the domain on several hundred radio stations
over a three month period.
Registration is made directly at second-level.
The .cc domain is preferred by many cycling clubs as well as churches
and Christian organizations as "CC" also happens to be an abbreviation
for "Christian Church" or "Catholic Church." Some open-source/open-
hardware projects, e.g. the Arduino project, use a .cc for their home
pages, as "CC" is the abbreviation for "Creative Commons", whose
licenses are used in the projects. Canadian Club whiskey have also
used .cc domains for marketing purposes.
Note: "co.cc" is not an official hierarchy; it is a domain (
www.co.cc)
owned by a company who offers free subdomain redirection services.
This company offers two free co.cc domains, as well as bulk discounts
for ordering as many as 15,000 domain names at a time. These domains
are often used by spammers to create spam blogs, or "splogs," often
with nonsense names like "extensitiesdiminutal.co.cc" and the like.
Suggestions the co.cc site pops up for free domain names to register
include "bestantivir" and "autoloan," belying its true use - the
creation of spam domains. Step-by-step instructions for spammers to
use free hosting services like Blogger, Windows Live, and Google Apps
for Nonprofits are included on its homepage, under the heading
"Mapping with co.cc".
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