[BNM] Domain question

[Joe Aliferis]

good stuff - thanks

joe

Mark Ng wrote:
> On 02/10/2007, Joe Aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk> wrote:
>> I am a bit confused about the top level of domains...
> 
> Alot of this is country dependent.
> 
>> eg1.
>>
>> myname.co.uk
>>
>> Is .uk a top level domain and .co.uk a sub domain ?
> 
> .uk is the top level domain.
> 
>> eg2.
>>
>> myname.us.com
> 
> .com is the top level domain
> 
>> Is this the same structure as myname.co.uk ?
>>
>> Anyone clarify ?
>>
> 
> What is probably confusing you here is that the naming bodies/NICs of
> various different countries have different rules.  Some countries
> split their TLD up into various subdomains (like the UK), and only
> sell under those sub-domains. So, in the UK, mynamehere.uk isn't
> valid, but in the US, mynamehere.us can be bought (in some countries,
> they do both - for example, I just bought interesting.ly recently, and
> that's more expensive than a .co.ly domain is).
> 
> US.com is just an example of the people who bought us.com in the first
> place reselling subdomains, and isn't actually an "official"
> second-level domain.
> 
> Mark