South American domains: Chile (.cl)

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Currently, whether you have registered a .com or a .co.uk domain there are no restrictions if you would like to register both versions of your domain name - and many people do!.

Of course, the choice is all a matter of your preference - .com is often regarded as "International" where the .co.uk domain is deemed to be "UK only", usually it depends on the target market.

Whilst, the .com domain is recognised world wide, it is easier to remember and to type, and there is a whole world full of people who could register it before you do!

If your target is primarily the UK market then registering just the .co.uk domain would seem to be the obvious choice. The .co.uk instantly identifies you as a UK company and often, given a list of URLs in a search engine, people will choose a domain / URL with their country code. Therefore, it follows that if you want to extend your target market then registering your domain with other country-code top-level domains (ccTLD) will expand your target audience.

Registering both .com and .co.uk (and others such as .at, .dk, .es, .eu, .ie, .it, .nz, .se etc) domain names in fact makes very good sense - it stops anyone else from registering your name and leaves it ready for you to use either right away or in the future. Did you know that with Web Forwarding you can have as many domain names as you like pointing to a single website - see Web Forwarding below.

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Web Forwarding

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Background

.cl is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Chile.

The ccTLD for Chile is .cl and it has been managed by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Chile since 1986. It had begun as an informal process, having been activated for UUCP mail. This informality went on for almost a decade, not restricted by written rules and having no conflicts. The creation of domain names under .cl was only possible due to IANA, being the Internet Assigned Number Authority.

In 2006, Chile came to be the first Latin American country to establish formal relations with ICANN. This was through the signing of an Accountability Framework Agreement, formalizing the relationship between ICANN and NIC Chile. This agreement contained the responsibilities of both companies regarding the preservation of the stability, security and interoperability of the Internet. It has been since its founding in 1998 that ICANN has been able to establish these agreements with managers of ccTLD registries.

Registration of the ccTLD .cl is open to anyone, but foreigners must provide a domestic contact with a RUT which is the Chilean National Identification Number.

Criteria assosiated with the registration of a .cl ccTLD are as follows:

• The Roman Alphabet (a-z) can be used.
• Digits (0-9) can be used.
• A hyphen (-) can be used but will not be accepted and the beginning or end of the domain name.
• Accented letters are accepted. These are: á, é, í, ñ, ó, ú and ü.