{"id":1503,"date":"2004-12-28T17:17:19","date_gmt":"2004-12-28T17:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1503.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"unusual-uk-subdomains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/12\/28\/unusual-uk-subdomains\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual .UK subdomains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that all .uk net addresses were further scoped by an appropriate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nic.uk\/SecondLevelDomains\/AboutSecondLevelDomains\/\">second-level domain<\/a>, e.g. &#8220;.co.uk&#8221; for companies, &#8220;.ac.uk&#8221; for academic institutions, &#8220;.gov.uk&#8221; for governmenty-type stuff, but apparently not:  I mis-typed my shortcut for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/\">Bloglines<\/a> yesterday, and ended up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/\">British Library<\/a>, which is just &#8220;bl.uk&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few other anomalous British second-level domains floating around, such as &#8220;nls.uk&#8221; for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nls.uk\/\">National Library of Scotland<\/a>, and &#8220;nel.uk&#8221; for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nel.uk\/\">National Engineering Laboratory<\/a>.  From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nominet.org.uk\/Members\/Pab\/PabMeetingPapers\/2002Papers\/AdditionalInformationSectionForTheRules.html\">this page at Nominet<\/a> (the people who run the .uk top-level domain), it looks like they were created before the .uk structure was formalised.  <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s your piece of trivia for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that all .uk net addresses were further scoped by an appropriate second-level domain, e.g. &#8220;.co.uk&#8221; for companies, &#8220;.ac.uk&#8221; for academic institutions, &#8220;.gov.uk&#8221; for governmenty-type stuff, but apparently not: I mis-typed my shortcut for Bloglines yesterday, and ended up at the British Library, which is just &#8220;bl.uk&#8221;. There are a few other anomalous British &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/12\/28\/unusual-uk-subdomains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unusual .UK subdomains&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}