Comments on: .UK is 25 years old http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/07/27/uk-is-25-years-old/ News and views on domain names, the Internet and life in general Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:55:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tony Finch http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/07/27/uk-is-25-years-old/comment-page-1/#comment-10604 Tony Finch Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:45:10 +0000 http://kierenmccarthy.com/?p=1309#comment-10604 The reason Willie Black asked for .uk was because it was already being used for hierarchial naming in the JANET NRS (name registration scheme) albeit with the opposite order to the DNS. The only domain I know of under .gb is dra.hmg.gb, which belongs to what was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Research_Agency" rel="nofollow">Defence Research Agency</a>. They had an FTP site that hosted some interesting open source software developed at their ex-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Signals_and_Radar_Establishment" rel="nofollow">RSRE</a> Malvern site. This included an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68RS" rel="nofollow">Algol 68 compiler</a> (which was released as part of a hardware description language toolkit) and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TenDRA" rel="nofollow">TenDRA</a> C compiler. I think "HMG" is rather nicer than "gov" :-) The reason Willie Black asked for .uk was because it was already being used for hierarchial naming in the JANET NRS (name registration scheme) albeit with the opposite order to the DNS.

The only domain I know of under .gb is dra.hmg.gb, which belongs to what was the Defence Research Agency. They had an FTP site that hosted some interesting open source software developed at their ex-RSRE Malvern site. This included an Algol 68 compiler (which was released as part of a hardware description language toolkit) and the TenDRA C compiler.

I think “HMG” is rather nicer than “gov” :-)

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