On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 12:35:17PM -0500, Bill Cole wrote: > 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. > I have a mix of .co.uk, .com, .net, .org, .biz, .uk, .be and .eu domains. They are all hosted on just two providers, one in the UK and the other in France. As far as I'm aware they could all be hosted on the same provider.
Surely it's the provider of the hosting who gets blacklisted not the 'name' of the host. -- Chris Green
