RE: UKNM: .com vs .co.uk - UK consumer understanding?

[Andy]

It's not so much that the rules were changed, more that some rules were

thought up by nominet, when they took over. IIRC PSINet used to manage the

.uk TLD until Nominet were "born"


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On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, [iso-8859-1] Quentin Langley wrote:


: . . . and you can have two letter .uk domains.  The

: shortest domain name I have ever seen is for the

: British Library: www.bl.uk


OK, let's set this straight then... There are some two letter domain

names, but you can't register them, since the rules have now changed. The

domain names that are already registered were registered in 96/97 I think,

before the new rules were passed.


Of course, the rules are pointless since there's already domain names that

break them (which they can't possibly take back), but if they let people

register the rest of them, it's not as if they'd last long before some

cyber-squatter came along and swallowed them all up.


jonathan lumb // creative director // sensei.co.uk



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