.uk 's history

were these ever sold to commercial entities

[Quinn]

I could've sworn that I've seen private business / persons ownin a domainname.uk in the past. Am I crazy?

Can anyone point me to a resource on top/second level domain organization for .uk?

Thanks

[beebware]

A full list of the .uk's Second level domains can be found here: [nic.uk...] . I only know of two sites which break that format: [nic.uk...] (Nominet UK: the DNS registry itself) and, for some strange reason, the British Library: [bl.uk...] . Apart from those (and the SLD), I've seen no other .uk names-spaces used (.uk.com however, is a different matter: but that, technically, isn't a proper domain - it's just a subdomain).

[Quinn]

Great, thanks beebware.

[CHC]

There are approximately 26,000 domains that were registered before the existence of Nominet. Until recently none of these pre-Nominet domain names were even paying the bi-annual renewal fee and Nominet are in the middle of a project to regularise these registrations.

Many names were actually registered not conforming to the current Nominet regulations which of course did not exist at the time of their registration. For instance x.co.uk is in existence and many second level domains registered directly under .uk are similarly still in use such as icnet.uk