If Americans say "dot com"...
 

do Brits say "dot co uk"?

I'm not British but what I usually hear the locals say is "dot co dot uk"

Btilke is right.

Perhaps Nathan Barley can help sort you out:

http://tinyurl.com/69cjxk

(warning: those with virgin ears should leave Nathan be)

LOL, after viewing Apres_Londees suggested video watch the one listed entitled "Prank Call To Virgin"!

That Virgin tech guy deserves a medal, he did great. The bit about the shouting burrowing into his son's brain did make me laugh, even though I felt sorry for the poor tech guy, lol.

Hello Apres_London, yes that was so much fun to watch as was the video you posted. There are some more which I plan to watch later..tonight or tomorrow. Thank you for the fun youtube site. And thanks to Robes for starting this thread. A good laugh is always great.

My word that was funny !

Especially the bit about the computer being upstairs and the phone downstairs and the shouting between the two. LOL !

I made up a bunch of .c_m designations a few years ago:

.cam - cameras
.cum - ...
.cwm - mountain climbers
.cym - Welshmen

CUM .... a chain of Christian bookshops in South Africa.

Genuinely!

We mostly say dot com.

Most major UK businesses - both UK-facing like Tesco or M&S and globally-oriented operations like BP, the Economist or Flanneruk Worldwide Enterprises - actually use .com or .net, rather than .co.uk. Organisations sometimes reserve .co.uk or .org.uk for their purely UK domestic operations - but people like Oxfam use .org for their prime worldwide site.

We often also have a .co.uk registration to protect ourselves against cybertheft. But it's the .com/.net we present to the world and that gets most traffic.

As a general rule, only public-sector organisations (.gov.uk or .parliament.uk) and academe (.ac.uk) routinely use the .uk suffix. And not always even there. It's britishmuseum.org and nationalgalleries.org