[ih] .UK vs .GB

[Nigel Roberts]

Well SOMETHING's still there

nigel at skylark:~$ dig dra.hmg.gb any

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> dra.hmg.gb any
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24545
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dra.hmg.gb.			IN	ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dra.hmg.gb.		21599	IN	NS	ns1.cs.ucl.ac.uk.
dra.hmg.gb.		21599	IN	NS	relay.mod.uk.
dra.hmg.gb.		21599	IN	NS	sun.mhs-relay.ac.uk.
dra.hmg.gb.		21599	IN	SOA	ns1.cs.ucl.ac.uk. hostmaster.cs.ucl.ac.uk. 
200709271 14400 1800 3600000 360000

;; Query time: 101 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53)
;; WHEN: Sat Apr 14 01:08:07 BST 2018
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 168



On 04/14/2018 01:07 AM, Nigel Roberts wrote:
> Up to about 8 or 10 years ago there was a website on
> 
> http://www.dra.hmg.gb
> 
> But then the agency got split, and mostly privatised.
> 
> I think that was the last.
> 
> 
> 
> On 04/13/2018 11:12 PM, John Levine wrote:
>> In another list someone was wondering why British domain names are
>> mostly in .UK even though the ISO 3166 code has always been .GB.
>>
>> I know this came up before but can't find the discussion.  Pointers or
>> rehash welcome.  The first mention I can find of .UK is in an example
>> in RFC 821 in 1982, the first statement that ccTLDS would be ISO 3166
>> codes was in 1984.
>>
>> For that matter, I see that JANET still runs .GB.  What still uses it?
>>
>> R's,
>> John
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