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Jabbles on Oct 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Shorter .uk Internet domain proposed by Nominet

This is not a problem and it does not need fixing. Lots of countries have second-level domain names.

What are the benefits of this?

justincormack on Oct 1, 2012 [–]

Lots of countries gave up bothering, like Germany where everything is top level now but used not to be. There is not even a standard for what the second level abbreviations are (eg .com.au vs .co.uk).

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