why is that .co.uk anyway? like other countries have .de .nl.. at certain point i thought its smebody owning co.or reselling subdomains.
Like many countries, .UK had a second-level set of categories for different types of organization. There's also .net.uk, .sch.uk, .ac.uk, .gov.uk, .nhs.uk, .mod.uk, .police.uk, ...
.AU, .NZ, .JP, .MX, .BR, .TH... it's not uncommon.