[sbinetd]

In the United Kingdom, we have a whole slab of second-level domains for specific purposes. .ac.uk for educational establishments beyond school, .sch.uk for schools, and .bl.uk for the national library. On top of that we even have ones like .police.uk, .parliament.uk, and soon .judiciary.uk. I believe Japan has a system like this too. I can't seeing it getting much use in either. Then again, not every country has this, so it probably should be released.

[_djo_]

South Africa has a similar system, with .ac.za for academic and tertiary institutions, .city.za for municipal governments, .co.za for commercial and generic registrations, .edu.za for distance-learning institutions, .gov.za for government departments, .mil.za for the military, .school.za for schools (with provincial sub-levels like .wcape.school.za) and .org.za for non-commercial entities. It removes the need to have a .edu domain when .ac.za suffices.

[DougBTX]

.bl.uk at least is an exception, it is one of the domains registered pre-Nominet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk#History

[josephlord]

And if Nominet get their way there will be commercial domains such as .uni.uk, .col.uk, .acad.uk, .cam.uk, .ox.uk, etc.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596154

If that happens I can imagine .edu becoming more popular as it may make .ac.uk seem more of a second class domain.

[robin_reala]

It’s always interesting to browser Mozilla’s public suffix list to see all the weird and wonderful second level domains around the world: http://publicsuffix.org/list/

[josephlord]

It doesn't actually seem to include .co.uk, .ac.uk, .me.uk but just the *.uk and the particular govenmental domains (except .gov.uk).

[khuey]

*.uk means that all foo.uk should be interpreted as public suffixes, except for the ones following that of the form !bar.uk

[deepuj]

The same is there in India too.