Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!CS.UCL.AC.UK!P.Kirstein From: P.Kirstein@CS.UCL.AC.UK Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: CS top-level domain and its impact on the UK? Message-ID: <9008090445.AA10765@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 8 Aug 90 19:02:49 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 The statement you make that "UK" is not a VALID Internet top-level domain is not true. It is true that "GB" is the official country code for British X.400 mail. It is also true that ".GB" would be a DESIRABLE high top level domain name for the United Kingdom to use for Internet mail. However most organisations in the US do not use ".US" as part of their address, and at present all JANET and MOD sites use ".UK". The top level domain names they use are VALID; they just do not follow a desirable convention. They are valid names as long as they have been properly registered with the NIC according to agreed Internet procedures. As I have described before, it is the conditions under which ".GB" can be registered - relative to the existing ".UK" - which is the subject of discussions between UK authorities and the NIC/Postel.