hey.co.uk

Originally Posted by psalzmann

So you're saying it's impossible to register a domain.uk ? why? I understand now that it was one of the earilest domain tlds but what's with the co. or ltd. or whatever. It reminds me of that us.com hack where the owner bought a 2 letter domain and is now offering subdomain accounts. I would much prefer domain.uk or as you suggest, domain.gb. However, .uk looks much more UKish but I am also aware gb stands for. Sorry just a little rant. No harm (I hope) Peter

No worries at all

You are right, it is not possible to purchase .uk directly from the domainer point of view.

.CO.UK is for commercial , and .LTD.UK is for limited companies. The .CO.UK is open for all comers whereas the .LTD.UK is restricted to those with a company number.

The reason for *why* is a tricky one but basically I believe it is that .UK would be too open and further categorization was required eg. .SCH.UK for schools.

It is interesting to see that for North America they have had to use .NET (.net.uk) .EDU (.sch.uk) .COM (.co.uk) and the like to cover the same bases, and if every country in the world did similar it would be unworkable.

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