RE: UKNM: Registering .edu domains

[Ben Metcalfe]

.edu is amercian educational establishments only (so much for the

.com/.net/.org are global-generic idology).


.ac.uk is the uk version, altough .sch.uk is also now valid.  The charter I

belive is .sch.uk if you are a registered school, otherwise .ac.uk for all

academic instituits.


Unless you are an academic instituite of some kind, I doubt you will be

granted one - even though the subject of your website and business may be

educational.  It all goes back, once gain, to idiology where .co.uk was for

companies only.  Whilst this may not be true these days, .net.uk and .ac.uk

are still being strictly adminastered such that only genuine uses of the

domains are made.


Anyway more can be found out at

http://www.ja.net/documents/naming/ac.uk-naming-procedure.html which is the

official (and only) registra of .ac.uk and .gov.uk domains.



Ben Metcalfe 

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-----Original Message-----

From: Jo Chipchase [

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Sent: 13 October 2000 16:03

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Subject: UKNM: Registering .edu domains




Does anyone know whether UK organisations can register .edu domains (the 

usage would be for a website to promote an educational text) and, if so, 

what is the cost and process involved?


Thanks.



Jo.

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