[emmelaich]

Cool fact - .uk isn't the official tld for great britain.

The official one is .gb

[teddyh]

No. The official TLD – i.e. “Top Level Domain”, is .uk. It differs from the normal ISO 3166 two-character country code, GB, even though most other countries have an identical TLD and ISO two-character code. The TLD .gb is merely reserved to deter shenanigans.

[Symbiote]

Both .GB and .UK are the country code top-level domains; .GB because that's the official code, and .UK for legacy reasons.

UK is a reserved ISO 3166 code, to prevent complications with DNS TLD assignment.

The .GB TLD is in use, but there are only three known domains. This is one:

  host hermes.dra.hmg.gb
  hermes.dra.hmg.gb has address 146.80.9.16
  hermes.dra.hmg.gb mail is handled by 10 relay.dstl.gov.uk.

[justincormack]

There were some mil.gb domains at one point.

[Jaruzel]

Cooler fact, GB and UK are different. UK is GB + Northern Ireland.

Scotland already have .Scot and I think Wales have thier own also. Not sure I've seen a .England though.

[mehrdadn]

.en would seem apt.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

.uk is also the UK's though. The country code is explicitly reserved by the UK, and it exists in DNS because they grandfathered in some old system's domains.