What's the deal with .uk.com domains?

[rob]

Its worth saying that outside the UK those examples are being retro branded eg. the football leagues , the Premier League here is the EPL outside.

Having owned EPL.co.uk once you would be shocked at the number of people who are bothered!

[crabfoot]

Hmm ... EPL - don't mention that where Tawe flows ...

The Scottish newspapers always published the football results as "English League" in the days before sponsorship, but now they have to use the sponsors' names like the English papers. I blame Gordon Brown (as usual).

[Wilko]

Mmm... grynge, I think they must have read your post - uk.com expires 02-May-2020 according to whois.opensrs.net

I had/registered quite a few .uk.coms back in the late 90's - (just checked one and it's available again!) can't remember if there were any particular issues; I don't think there were - definitely a second choice because the .co.uk was taken - and not a cheap option either.

[crabfoot]

Now here's a funny thing - I had cause to visit www. bluespot.uk.com and I left the www bit off and got an advert for 1-2-3 . The site works as expected with the www in place. Hmmm. Answers on a postcard.

[bwelford]

Ah the mysteries of the Internet.
The www version has an IP of 46.20.225.233 while the non-www version has an IP of 94.136.40.90. One is in Leeds and one in Macclesfield as far as I can tell.
I don't really have an answer so I thought I would save the postage.

[Clinton]

Interesting crabfoot, I never thought to check what the real domain owner is doing with stuff like www, error pages ... and whatever else he's got stuck in his htaccess! Very clever.

Last week three .eu.com sites came up (one being oro.eu.com). I take it the same problem applies to the .eu.com as does to the .uk.com.