Prince Charles first to get a second-level .uk name
The household of Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, has become one of the first bodies to receive a second-level .uk domain name, Nominet announced this morning.
The name princeofwales.uk was among four delegated to organizations that have previously used third-level .gov.uk names but which are actually independent of the UK government. Nominet said:
Nominet has delegated the new second-level .uk domain names royal.uk, princeofwales.uk, supremecourt.uk and jcpc.uk to the Royal Household, the Household of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, the Supreme Court, and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council respectively.
These were among 69 second-level names requested by the British government for special treatment in advance of the broader Direct.uk initiative, which is due to kick of mid-2014.
The full list of government names will be published in February, Nominet said.
Under Direct.uk, registrants of .co.uk names will get five years to decide whether they want to register the matching .uk name.
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What about police.uk that has been in function for many years now (vide http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://police.uk )?
Though, interestingly, it doesn’t have a whois record at all…
$ whois police.uk
Error for “police.uk”.
This domain cannot be registered because it contravenes the Nominet UK
naming rules. The reason is:
the domain name contains too few parts.
WHOIS lookup made at 11:31:25 16-Dec-2013
Princeof.wales has a nicer ring to it…
Also why are the Supreme Court and JCPC not using .judiciary.uk ?
From 23 November 2011:
UK court systems set to adopt judiciary.uk domain names
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15860533