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In the United Kingdom, we have a whole slab of second-level domains for specific purposes. .ac.uk for educational establishments beyond school, .sch.uk for scho

by sbinetd 14y ago

In the United Kingdom, we have a whole slab of second-level domains for specific purposes. .ac.uk for educational establishments beyond school, .sch.uk for schools, and .bl.uk for the national library. On top of that we even have ones like .police.uk, .parliament.uk, and soon .judiciary.uk. I believe Japan has a system like this too. I can't seeing it getting much use in either. Then again, not every country has this, so it probably should be released.

deepuj 14y ago
The same is there in India too.
robin_reala 14y ago
It’s always interesting to browser Mozilla’s public suffix list to see all the weird and wonderful second level domains around the world: http://publicsuffix.org/list/ http://publicsuffix.org/list/
- josephlord 14y ago
  It doesn't actually seem to include .co.uk, .ac.uk, .me.uk but just the *.uk and the particular govenmental domains (except .gov.uk).
- khuey 14y ago
  *.uk means that all foo.uk should be interpreted as public suffixes, except for the ones following that of the form !bar.uk
josephlord 14y ago
And if Nominet get their way there will be commercial domains such as .uni.uk, .col.uk, .acad.uk, .cam.uk, .ox.uk, etc. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596154 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596154 If that happens I can imagine .edu becoming more popular as it may make .ac.uk seem more of a second class domain.
DougBTX 14y ago
.bl.uk at least is an exception, it is one of the domains registered pre-Nominet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk#History
_djo_ 14y ago
South Africa has a similar system, with .ac.za for academic and tertiary institutions, .city.za for municipal governments, .co.za for commercial and generic registrations, .edu.za for distance-learning institutions, .gov.za for government departments, .mil.za for the military, .school.za for schools (with provincial sub-levels like .wcape.school.za) and .org.za for non-commercial entities. It removes the need to have a .edu domain when .ac.za suffices.

by sbinetd 14y ago

deepuj 14y ago

The same is there in India too.

robin_reala 14y ago

It’s always interesting to browser Mozilla’s public suffix list to see all the weird and wonderful second level domains around the world: http://publicsuffix.org/list/ http://publicsuffix.org/list/

josephlord 14y ago
It doesn't actually seem to include .co.uk, .ac.uk, .me.uk but just the *.uk and the particular govenmental domains (except .gov.uk).
khuey 14y ago
*.uk means that all foo.uk should be interpreted as public suffixes, except for the ones following that of the form !bar.uk

josephlord 14y ago

And if Nominet get their way there will be commercial domains such as .uni.uk, .col.uk, .acad.uk, .cam.uk, .ox.uk, etc. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596154 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596154 If that happens I can imagine .edu becoming more popular as it may make .ac.uk seem more of a second class domain.

DougBTX 14y ago

.bl.uk at least is an exception, it is one of the domains registered pre-Nominet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk#History

_djo_ 14y ago

South Africa has a similar system, with .ac.za for academic and tertiary institutions, .city.za for municipal governments, .co.za for commercial and generic registrations, .edu.za for distance-learning institutions, .gov.za for government departments, .mil.za for the military, .school.za for schools (with provincial sub-levels like .wcape.school.za) and .org.za for non-commercial entities. It removes the need to have a .edu domain when .ac.za suffices.