The Guardian Moves to .com Domain

When I was a kid my town had two newspapers. A broadsheet and a shitty rag called The News. The guy who inherited The News went on to buy the other paper and then like a cancer take over the world. Today 11 of the 12 Australian capital city dailies are owned by just two companies.<p>There are a few independent online news services but having the Guardian start an Australian branch is a welcome boost to democracy here. Visiting the Australian sub-site on a co.uk domain wasn&#x27;t all that attractive for a country that has been independent since federation. So well done everyone at The Guardian.

Happy to see that they&#x27;ve kept redirects in place, in particular the all-important <a href="http://grauniad.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;grauniad.co.uk</a> .

I rather preferred the aesthetic of &quot;guardian.co.uk&quot; to &quot;theguardian.com&quot;. The &quot;theguardian&quot; logo is rather fugly.<p>It also seems a bit premature, why not wait for guardian.news?

The Guardian&#x27;s been making a fairly obvious play for the US online market for several years now, particularly in their choice of opinion writers and topics.

I wish US-specific (or any country-specific) sites weren&#x27;t allowed to use .com. There&#x27;s a perfectly good .us TLD going almost unused, and as an international user it&#x27;s very frustrating to find a shop I want to buy from on a .com, and then discover that it only sells to the US.

I&#x27;m one of the product guys at The Guardian involved in this project. It was quite an undertaking. Happy to field any questions you might have as best I can.

This seems like a power move to gain international traction, but it immediately discounts it as a good source for national news, as it traditionally has been.

Oh, great. Now I have to type &quot;<i>theguardian.com</i>&quot; a load of times to replace the top result in Chrome for &quot;<i>th</i>&quot;

Amused to see how US commenters take to the famously opinionated yet erudite CIFers :D

I&#x27;ll be interested to see how they handle Sports and other national issues that are totally uninteresting to people from other countries BUT are very interesting to people from the UK (or where ever) that are accessing the site from outside the UK.<p>Generally I&#x27;ve not seen this handled gracefully

Can anyone think of anyway to keep cookies as they move across domains?

HTTPS is still broken though - it would nice if that was fixed so it really could be read by the whole world uncensored.

Perhaps this is an SEO play, as well?