A friend and I were talking about mail order pharmacies, and I thought I read or heard, but I can't find it online, that if you want a safe, certified mail-order pharmacy, its website should end in .pharm.
Yet I've only read this once.
Do you known anything about this?
OR do you know what the last part of a url is called, the part that is .com, .org, .gov etc?
And what ever happened to .biz? I never see it though it's 5 or 10 years old.
There might be a little conflict since the NABP also sells sites in the .pharmacy domain.
The impartiality of the domain has been questioned, because Eli Lilly and Company, Merck & Co., and Pfizer are the main contributors to the NABP application. Previously, that application was challenged by Public Citizen, Knowledge Ecology International, and the Canadian International Pharmacy Association.[8]"
No.
It's called a Top Level Domain, or TLD.
I get all my scripts from CVS whose website is caremark.com
What someone in group might tell me is a reliable way to get my blood thinner from Canada which is about one third of what I pay even with the insurance. Has anyone here dealt with Canada? I also believe you need a script from a Canadian doctor.
Can't comment on the Canadian issue, but have you taken a look at costplusdrugs.com ? It's an Internet/mail order pharmacy which Marc Cuban, a Texian Billionaire, set up to, yes, sell drugs at signfinactly less than the standard pricing.
The list is a bit limited, but worth checking out.
(I've been using them for a year now)
If you qualify for TRICARE pharmacy benefits (if you do, you'll know it), the express scripts web site ends in .com
Aha. I knew that term once. Turns out there are many TLDs available that I never see used.
Turns out there is .farm, but it's for farmers, etc.
And as you point out there is:
which says "The generic top-level domain (gTLD) .pharmacy was launched by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) in 2014. The goal was to "provide consumers around the world a means for identifying safe, legal, and ethical online pharmacies and related resources". A review by the NABP of more than 10,800 websites selling prescription drugs "found that nearly 97% do not follow pharmacy laws and standards established to protect the public health".[1]
The impartiality of the domain was questioned, because Eli Lilly and Company, Merck & Co., and Pfizer are the main contributors to the NABP application. Previously, the application was challenged by Public Citizen, Knowledge Ecology International, and the Canadian International Pharmacy Association." [Those darn Canadians!]
Well it sounds like a good idea, but it's 9 years old and little used if at all. So I won't hunt for one.
Top-level domain.
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