How come all web adresses from the UK that i've heard of end in '.co.uk'?

[burkeas]

Why is it 'co'.uk? why can't it just be '.uk'?

[webbo3]

hope this helps.

.gov..........goverment organisations

.edu.........educational institutions

.org..........organisations(non profit)

.mil...........military

.net...........network organisations

.com ......comercial businesses

.ca..........canada

.th..........thailand

.co.uk...............united kingdom

[webbo3]

oh i should have said .

.co.uk means a company or business in the uk(i think)

[kempie]

.uk is a country code top-level domain (ccTLD), a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory.

.co (commercial/general) is a second-level domain, one of many such as .ac (academic), .gov (government), .ltd (limited companies), .nhs (National Health Service institutions) and .org (non-profit organisations). It is prohibited to register a domain name directly under .uk and a second-level domain must be used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk

[vehelpfulguy]

I own a web site that is for an organization and that is org.uk

So not all uk email addresses are co.uk, it is mainly companies that use co.uk

And you can see here that Warwick university are ac.uk

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/contact/

[robbo82]

As a supplemental question, why is it that the USA doesn't seem to have it's own country code top-level domain? I can't recall ever seeing co.us or org.us. Are they above it all?

[kempie]

.us does exist, but did not prove popular mostly because second-level domains not already delegated by the administrators didn't become available for registration until April 2002.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us

[burkeas]

.us does exist, yet it isn't used much because the internet started in the US, so most things in the US gets .com. The only time we of the US get second level domains is when searching for state data. Such as the Colorado dept. of transport is http://www.dot.state.co.us/ . The co stands for Colorado, the us for the US.

[Stu in USA]

I suppose its similar to the postal situation. The UK is the only country that does not put the country name on its stamps as it all started in UK. Mind you the bloke who invented the www is English!!!!