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> England decided to use .co.uk for no apparent reason Eh? The UK (not "England") use .uk. This is then subdivided into .co.uk, .ac.uk, .org.uk, .gov.uk and ma

by RobAley 13y ago

> England decided to use .co.uk for no apparent reason Eh? The UK (not "England") use .uk. This is then subdivided into .co.uk, .ac.uk, .org.uk, .gov.uk and many more depending on the type of organisation, as ccTLDs were initially envisioned, i.e. type.country

mattmanser 13y ago
Why wan't it .co.us then? Or .com.uk? At best it's meaningless, at worse the US was the very first domain squatter sitting on all the tlds. What actually happened is a massive waste of money paying for stupid extra domain names to stop someone else impersonating you. It's just historical. And now they claim their increasingly worrying and opaque laws apply to any website that uses it, which is even worse for us all. That the UK decided to then follow the naming convention (or any other country that did) is a waste of letters. Total farce. (I did actually mean UK, I'm English and it was a slip)
- walshemj 13y ago
  Because county tlds organization is devolved to that country duh they each do their own thing.
- justincormack 13y ago
  .co.x vs .com.x is arbitrary. But .uk should be .gb technically.
  - blowski 13y ago
    Actually, .gb exists as well, but the subdomain is dra.hmg.gb. .uk was created before the standard was agreed, and the UK was allowed to keep using it.
- woe 13y ago
  Why is .co.uk any more meaningless than .com? They're both arbitrary character strings. If anything, .com is less meaningful than .co.uk: .co.uk conveys a larger quantum of meaning ("British company") than does .com ("company"). And what's wrong with wasting letters? Expecting the entire world to exist under .com is just as stupid as AOL expecting the entire world to exist within a 16-character username space. Thinking that you must pay "for stupid extra domain names to stop someone else impersonating you", well, that's stupid too - just as stupid as saying you have to maintain your email address on every single provider to stop someone else impersonating you. Names aren't unique. The world needs to deal with it. You could say that the US has squatted on two TLDs since the beginning (.gov and .mil) and .edu was later added to that list, but all of the other TLDs have always been open for registration anywhere in the world.

by RobAley 13y ago

mattmanser 13y ago

Why wan't it .co.us then? Or .com.uk? At best it's meaningless, at worse the US was the very first domain squatter sitting on all the tlds. What actually happened is a massive waste of money paying for stupid extra domain names to stop someone else impersonating you. It's just historical. And now they claim their increasingly worrying and opaque laws apply to any website that uses it, which is even worse for us all. That the UK decided to then follow the naming convention (or any other country that did) is a waste of letters. Total farce. (I did actually mean UK, I'm English and it was a slip)

walshemj 13y ago
Because county tlds organization is devolved to that country duh they each do their own thing.
justincormack 13y ago
.co.x vs .com.x is arbitrary. But .uk should be .gb technically.
- blowski 13y ago
  Actually, .gb exists as well, but the subdomain is dra.hmg.gb. .uk was created before the standard was agreed, and the UK was allowed to keep using it.
woe 13y ago
Why is .co.uk any more meaningless than .com? They're both arbitrary character strings. If anything, .com is less meaningful than .co.uk: .co.uk conveys a larger quantum of meaning ("British company") than does .com ("company"). And what's wrong with wasting letters? Expecting the entire world to exist under .com is just as stupid as AOL expecting the entire world to exist within a 16-character username space. Thinking that you must pay "for stupid extra domain names to stop someone else impersonating you", well, that's stupid too - just as stupid as saying you have to maintain your email address on every single provider to stop someone else impersonating you. Names aren't unique. The world needs to deal with it. You could say that the US has squatted on two TLDs since the beginning (.gov and .mil) and .edu was later added to that list, but all of the other TLDs have always been open for registration anywhere in the world.