[ih] .UK vs .GB

[nigel at channelisles.net (Nigel Roberts)]

Up to about 8 or 10 years ago there was a website on

http://www.dra.hmg.gb

But then the agency got split, and mostly privatised.

I think that was the last.



On 04/13/2018 11:12 PM, John Levine wrote:
> In another list someone was wondering why British domain names are
> mostly in .UK even though the ISO 3166 code has always been .GB.
> 
> I know this came up before but can't find the discussion.  Pointers or
> rehash welcome.  The first mention I can find of .UK is in an example
> in RFC 821 in 1982, the first statement that ccTLDS would be ISO 3166
> codes was in 1984.
> 
> For that matter, I see that JANET still runs .GB.  What still uses it?
> 
> R's,
> John
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