alt Hacker NewsYou've never seen example.co.uk? Many countries use them because the top level domains for gov, edu, etc are restricted to one country.
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Symbiote • yesterday at 10:06 AM
There's two on the second page of active HN discussions, telegraph.co.uk and independent.co.uk.
Should we mention fourth-level domains, like ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us or stanborough.herts.sch.uk?
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Those are not quite the same though, being something specific and short so essentially behave like a tld in their own right. For a long time you couldn't buy a <something>.uk, it had to be .co.uk or similar, so those _were_ the tld.
The way .name worked you could directly register <name1>.<name2>.name instead if getting <name2>.name and setting up <name1> as a subdomain. It meant john.smith.name and dave.smith.name could be completely separate registrations. You can't generally register <name1>.<name2>.tld like that.