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Even .org.uk isn't foolproof; I've had mine for 20 years and still occasionally get people leaving off the .uk. The most recent suspect is Google Android keyboard will autocomplete my email address .. and leave off the ".uk"!


As the former holder of yahoo.org.uk, I can also confirm that ordinary people don't understand the difference between .org.uk and .co.uk.


why is that .co.uk anyway? like other countries have .de .nl.. at certain point i thought its smebody owning co.or reselling subdomains.


Like many countries, .UK had a second-level set of categories for different types of organization. There's also .net.uk, .sch.uk, .ac.uk, .gov.uk, .nhs.uk, .mod.uk, .police.uk, ...

.AU, .NZ, .JP, .MX, .BR, .TH... it's not uncommon.




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