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Huh, apparently the British library got its own bl.uk domain, that's neat.
by contravariant 3y ago
Huh, apparently the British library got its own bl.uk domain, that's neat.
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- soneil 3y agoA fun side-effect of their JANET (roughly analogous to nsfnet in the US) hostname pre-dating DNS. I believe anyone can get .uk domains now, they don't have to be .co.uk - but this one's been anomalous since 1985.
- jameshart 3y agobl.uk is one of the few original direct subdomains of .uk that existed before Nominet opened up to direct registrations in 2014. As far as I'm aware, bl.uk, parliament.uk, nls.uk (national library of Scotland) and nhs.uk were the only .uk domains that weren't under .ac.uk, .co.uk, .org.uk, .mod.uk, or .gov.uk before that point.