On 2021-12-13 at 06:19:47 UTC-0500 (Mon, 13 Dec 2021 19:19:47 +0800) Frank Hwa <fr...@tomatoservers.com> is rumored to have said:
for the second level domain, some are "com.au", "com.hk" (the com one), some are "co.uk", "co.jp" (the co one). I am not sure, isn't there a standard for this naming?
No. The 2-letter TLDs are reserved for national authorities in each country, who are broadly unwilling to be governed by sensible standards from trans-national trade associations like ICANN.
On the other hand, anyone who wants to do so can buy a 2nd-level domain in a gTLD and run a pseudo-registry like uk.com or eu.org for subdomains. Such operations meet great skepticism because historically spammers have tried to insulated themselves from policy enforcement by running sock-puppet upstream providers. I don't recall such an example in the past decade, but memories are long.
-- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire
