ok.co.uk

[FC Domains]

How the hell did OK Magazine do that?

Has it been around long enough to have registered a two letter .co.uk?

 

[Whois-Search]

I wondered that when I saw the advert.

Then the Whois says "Registered on: before Aug-1996"

Must be renting it ?

Other 2 letter .co.uk are:

1, bj.co.uk
2, bt.co.uk
3, cd.co.uk
4, ds.co.uk
5, eb.co.uk
6, et.co.uk
7, fl.co.uk
8, ga.co.uk
9, gb.co.uk
10, go.co.uk
11, gr.co.uk
12, hp.co.uk
13, ig.co.uk
14, it.co.uk
15, jj.co.uk

 

[Whois-Search]

Ok same company lol

Looks like they had a site back in 2000:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ok.co.uk

Must have relaunched it.

 

[Pred]

how?

i didn't realise 2 letter .co.uk's had ever been available. i knew 2 numbers, yes. shows how much i thought i knew. how though? is it just renting for high sums from nominet? i guess if nominet want they can release 1character. Can they? or would they just rent, like .tv for huge sums for key words?
:shock:

 

[Whois-Search]

Only back in 1996 Pre-Nominet could you register a 2 Letter

 

[Pred]

early reg.

hi.
cheers for that. do you know the earliest ever that a .com could have been regged? i looked at a .com the other day that i'd love & couln't believe it was regged in '86. is it poss.? plus the blokes site couldn't be more amatuerish. (says the bloke who can only do instant sites!). There's a charm in his site though i suppose. Pred

 

[aquanuke]

Back in '86 they would have been free, but nobody wanted them. I remember knocking up a few hundred pounds worth of telephone charges on Prestel/compuserve in the early eighties and my dad took away my speccy Then I never touched a PC for a long time and missed out on the first years of the dot coms.

 

[Pred]

octopus.com

Interesting stuff, cheers nukemeister! The above domain was the one i liked & it's showing regged in '86 as you say. Back in '86 i was tinkering with an acorn electron & couldn't get past 'cls' to clear screen if i remember right. We sat in computer studies (1 hr week) toying with bbc computers thinking 'this is going nowhere! if only...................................:sad:

 

[texidriver]

THE 100 OLDEST CURRENTLY-REGISTERED .COM DOMAINS


http://www.jottings.com/100-oldest-dot-com-domains.htm

 

[den]

I thought you could register a two letter .uk if your company or business trades or is known as two letters (but it has to be VERY well known), ie BT.

I remember asking Nominet a good number of years ago and that was the response they gave me.

 

[Pred]

LL.co.uk

Good post. There are quite a few 2 letters out there it seems. I know some are pre-nominet. It figures if you are HUGE like BT. But what about ok mag. It's w*nk! No good even for toilet paper! :twisted:
Predator

 

[Whois-Search]

BT.co.uk Registered on: before Aug-1996

I think it was after Aug 1996 when the rule came about:

http://web.archive.org/web/19970624221451/www.nic.uk/rules/rup2.htm

"Two letter names are not allowed, reserved for ISO country codes."