Eric_Jarvis - 3:19 pm on Jun 25, 2001 (gmt 0)

rpking:"I'm worried that as engines become more and more regionalised, only the .com will continue to achieve prominance across the bulk of international engines. I'm worried that a .co.uk address will be confined largely to UK engines, and ignored by German, French etc. etc."

there are a number of national search engines that will only list sites with their own nattional suffix or .com/.net/.org

there is no concievable reason for saving £50 or so and throwing away a significant amount of international traffic to your web site