Posted by Jerry Brown on 12/04/06 10:30

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 16:13:19 -0500, Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:

<snip>

>U.S. commercial, last I heard -- just as ".mil" means U.S. military
>and ".gov" means U.S. government. Though there are non-US companies
>that have registered .com domains, the default is .co.uk, and .gov.uk
>for government(*). Examples: http://www.royal.gov.uk/ and
>http://amazon.co.uk . The latter lists the DVDs in question at
>
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yes-Minister-Complete-Collection-REGION/dp/B0000DI88E/sr=8-8/qid=1165179994/ref=sr_1_8/026-2565330-3230849?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
>
>though in NTSC region 1 format.
>
>> It means he didn't see the poster had posted the question to
>> uk.media.dvd, which perfectly explained why the poster was asking for a
>> title that'd been out for four years.
>
>Actually, I did. But since the spelling and capitalization were,
>well, eccentric, and the poster used a .com address (even though it
>might have been faked), I just assumed it was part of massive
>crossposting.
>
>If the poster wanted Region 2, why did he not say so? A Google for
> "yes, prime minister" "region 2"
>turned up 577 links.
>
>As I say, my crystal ball was in the shop. So I beg pardon for
>answering the question using the most likely interpretations.
>
>
>(*) though a quick Google found no .mil.uk sites.

The UK uses .mod.uk (ministry of defence) instead of .mil, and .ac.uk
(academic) instead of .edu, while. .gov.uk is used erratically (e.g.
www.statistics.gov.uk follows the convention, but UK Parliament is
just www.parliament.uk).

Jerry Brown
--
A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)

<http://www.jwbrown.co.uk>

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