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Agree that the .name 3rd level domains are silly, disagree on .co.uk being a problem.

If .gov and .mil and .com make sense, then .gov.cc and .mil.cc and .com.cc make sense.

Of course, I think having more than one non-cc TLD was a mistake, but that's just me. If it makes sense to have topical TLDs for international and US institutions, it make sense to have national ones.

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The 3rd level .name domains are the original ones. They didn't hand out 2nd level domains until three years after they started.

> disagree on .co.uk being a problem

Nominet and therefore .co.uk has been around since 1996.

.co.uk is not going anywhere, and neither is Nominet.

The only "problem" is the original poster did not do their homework. I suspect they were inferring `uk.co` which is a completely different kettle of fish. The original poster should urgently correct their post.

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