On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 10:45:59 +0000, Roger Hayter wrote:

On 13 Feb 2021 at 18:34:32 GMT, "Tim Lamb"
wrote:

In message , Mike Humphrey
writes
On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 10:53:26 +0000, Roger Hayter wrote:
On 13 Feb 2021 at 10:04:44 GMT, "charles"
wrote:
In article , Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)
wrote:
In what sense don't they like it? I've never had any trouble
creating accounts, more of an issue is the zip code if you need
to put in a partial address as many do not understand post codes.
Brian

I've had that too. Simply - not an accepted email address

Maybe the experts can tell us if it was an actual rule change that
led to domain names of the general form of name.uk as opposed to
name.co.uk becoming available? It sounds as though they gilded the
lily a bit on email credibility checking and are excluding forms
that are now permitted. Or were they always wrong about what was
allowed? I seem to remember name.tv being permitted for a long
time. If they had rules about every .xx top level domain
individually they would need to be revising them rather often.

Each country code has rules set by the country it's assigned to. So
the rules for .tv are set by Tuvalu. Which does mean that there are at
least 200 or so sets of rules (there are some ccTLDs like .eu and
.scot that aren't assigned to countries by the usual definition). Some
countries just have the end domains straight under the country code,
some have another level in between. And the second levels have rules
too - the rule for .co.uk is pretty much "pay for it", while .ac.uk
has very strict rules about about what kind of organisation qualifies.

The UK now has a mixed system. Originally there had to be a second
level - .co.uk, .org.uk, ac.uk and .gov.uk being the main ones -
though some second levels were assigned to a single organisation such
as bl.uk (British Library) and parliament.uk. The second level domains
have changed a few times - .me.uk was added not so long back as there
wasn't really anywhere for personal domains (most people were using
.org.uk or .co.uk). Recently the rules were changed to allow
registering domains directly under .uk - though the second level ones
haven't gone anywhere.

There's really no way to validate if a domain name is valid (other
than by looking it up to see if it exists), beyond that it contains at
least two elements and that the last one has at least two letters.
Recently there's been a whole pile of top level domains created - some
of which it's far from clear what they're supposed to be for. So while
you can reject something like "abc@qwerty" or ", there's
no way to tell if " is valid or not - even if
".nonsense" doesn't exist or has a rule that there must be a second
level, that could change tomorrow.

For reasons best known to Namesco, I have .uk.com The benefit seems
to be they can charge more!

That of course is because a commercial organisation managed to register
uk.com with the .com authorities and now rents out subdomains. So
.uk.com is not actually a uk domain at all, but looks like one.


The original comment was pertaining to my email address which ends in .uk
not being liked by some yank organisations. I wondered of it was too
secure for them.