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.co.uk
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:36 am
by Mucus
Just a trivial question, but I was wondering why the UK has the ".co" bit in web addresses.
Everywhere else seems to just be ".de" or ".com" or some other single section suffix so why does the UK have the ".co" bit in aswell?
I'm confident that someone (or more likely everyone) else here will know!
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:37 am
by stargurl
Wikipedia to the rescue!
I suppose it's a bit like .com - .co.uk is for commercial/general use
Second-level domains
* .ac.uk - academic (tertiary education and research establishments) and learned societies.
* .co.uk - commercial/general
* .gov.uk - government (central and local)
* .ltd.uk - limited companies
* .me.uk - personal
* .mil.uk - Ministry of Defence
* .mod.uk - Ministry of Defence and HM Forces public sites
* .net.uk - ISPs and network companies
* .nic.uk - network use only
* .nhs.uk - National Health Service institutions
* .org.uk - non-profit organisations
* .plc.uk - public limited companies
* .police.uk - police forces
* .sch.uk - schools, primary and secondary education
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:36 pm
by hippy dave
yuh, what she said.
i think it's a good thing - just like with the top-level domains (.com .org etc - non-country-specific) it means you can differentiate between types of domain, but still know they're uk-based. obviously the system isn't used perfectly, just like a lot of non-commercial sites use .com because it's the most obvious, you get the same with .co.uk, but that's not too big a deal.
it does seem less common with other countries' domains, but it's not unique - i'm pretty sure .com.au is used etc.
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:54 pm
by discocyst
japan uses .co.jp as well
eg:
http://www.godzilla.co.jp
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:07 pm
by Dog
...and so do the Cook Islands with .co.ck
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:38 pm
by Timbob
Dog wrote:...and so do the Cook Islands with .co.ck
i thought you was joking!
cock! what a nice top level
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:50 pm
by Dog
http://www.trashbat.co.uk 
...and we all know about the Cayman Islands, don't we
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:53 pm
by Timbob
http://big.phat.co.ck
it's a wonder that one isn't registered.
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:40 am
by stimpee
Reminds me of the tofu cooking site I almost launched in the Cook Islands.
The website was gonna be called I Like Tofu.