[Navarr]

I understand, but I believe as others have pointed out that ICANN would deny said applications.

And if the spammers/scammers have enough money to afford the infrastructure necessary for a TLD, I think we may have a bigger problem.

[keithpeter]

My understanding is that books.uk is just a second level domain. It would have to be Nominet who questioned the application, and there are countries that appear to take a liberal view of the use of their country code. Have I misunderstood?

[Navarr]

Ah, I missed that point. I just.. see that as a non-issue.

Though someone COULD use books.uk like a domain, I don't see people confusing it with .books websites.

If they do they have the wrong expectations from ccTLDs