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.uk is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [1]

96 relations: Anguilla, Antarctica, Bailiwick of Guernsey, BBC News, Bermuda, British Antarctic Survey, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Library, Campion School, Hornchurch, Cayman Islands, Companies Act, Companies House, Country code, Country code top-level domain, Demon Internet, DENIC, Devolution in the United Kingdom, Domain name, Domain name registrar, Exeter, Falkland Islands, Further education, Gibraltar, Government of the United Kingdom, Great Britain, Hornchurch, Internet, Internet in the United Kingdom, Internet service provider, Isle of Man, ISO 3166, ISO 3166-1, Ivan Pope, JANET, Jersey, Joint European Torus, Jon Postel, Learned society, Limited company, Local education authority, Local government, Local government in the United Kingdom, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Montserrat, National Health Service, National Library of Scotland, Natural person, Nominet UK, Nonprofit organization, OpenDNSSEC, ..., Parliament of the United Kingdom, Private limited company, Proposed top-level domain, Public limited company, Queueing theory, Royal Society, Saint Helena, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Scotland, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Tokamak, Top-level domain, Turks and Caicos Islands, UCAS, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Universities in the United Kingdom, Wales, West Exe School, World Wide Web, .ac, .ai, .aq, .bm, .cn, .com, .cym, .cymru, .de, .fk, .gb, .gg, .gi, .gs, .im, .io, .je, .ky, .london, .ms, .net, .sch, .scot, .sh, .tc, .wales. Expand index (46 more) »

Anguilla

Anguilla is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Bailiwick of Guernsey

| status.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Bermuda

Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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British Antarctic Survey

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national Antarctic operation and has an active role in Antarctic affairs.

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British Indian Ocean Territory

The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a British overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia.

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British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.

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Campion School, Hornchurch

The Campion School is a Roman Catholic boys' secondary school and coeducational sixth form in Hornchurch, London, England.

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Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands is an autonomous British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea.

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Companies Act

Companies Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Botswana, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom in relation to company law.

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Companies House

Companies House is the United Kingdom's registrar of companies and is an executive agency and trading fund of Her Majesty's Government.

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Country code

Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications.

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Country code top-level domain

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code.

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Demon Internet

Demon Internet is a British Internet service provider currently operating as a brand of Vodafone.

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DENIC

DENIC eG is the manager of the.de domain, the country-code top-level domain for Germany.

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Devolution in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, devolution (fèin-riaghlaidh, datganoli; Irish: Dílárú) refers to the statutory granting of powers from the Parliament of the United Kingdom to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the London Assembly and to their associated executive bodies the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government, the Northern Ireland Executive and in England, the Greater London Authority and combined authorities.

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Domain name

A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet.

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Domain name registrar

A domain name registrar is an organization that manages the reservation of Internet domain names.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon, England, with a population of 129,800 (mid-2016 EST).

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.

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Further education

Further education (often abbreviated FE) in the United Kingdom and Ireland is education in addition to that received at secondary school, that is distinct from the higher education (HE) offered in universities and other academic institutions.

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Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom, formally referred to as Her Majesty's Government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Hornchurch

Hornchurch is a suburban town in the London Borough of Havering, East London, England, east-northeast of Charing Cross.

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Internet in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has been involved with the Internet since it was created.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin), also known simply as Mann (Mannin), is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.

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ISO 3166

ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states).

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ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.

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Ivan Pope

Ivan Pope (1961-) is a British technologist who was involved with a number of early internet developments in the UK and across the world, and invented the "cybercafe" at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.

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JANET

Janet is a high-speed network for the UK research and education community provided by Jisc, a not-for-profit company set up to provide computing support for education.

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Jersey

Jersey (Jèrriais: Jèrri), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (Bailliage de Jersey; Jèrriais: Bailliage dé Jèrri), is a Crown dependency located near the coast of Normandy, France.

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Joint European Torus

JET, the Joint European Torus, is the world's largest operational magnetically confined plasma physics experiment, located at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, UK.

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Jon Postel

Jonathan Bruce Postel (August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards.

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Learned society

A learned society (also known as a learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organisation that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts.

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Limited company

In a limited company, the liability of members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company.

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Local education authority

Local education authorities (LEAs) are the local councils in England and Wales that are responsible for education within their jurisdiction.

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Local government

A local government is a form of public administration which, in a majority of contexts, exists as the lowest tier of administration within a given state.

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Local government in the United Kingdom

Local government in the United Kingdom has origins that pre-date the United Kingdom itself, as each of the four countries of the United Kingdom has its own separate system.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MoD or MOD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.

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Montserrat

Montserrat is a Caribbean island in the Leeward Islands, which is part of the chain known as the Lesser Antilles, in the West Indies.

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National Health Service

The National Health Service (NHS) is the name used for each of the public health services in the United Kingdom – the National Health Service in England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland – as well as a term to describe them collectively.

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National Library of Scotland

The National Library of Scotland (Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba, Naitional Leebrar o Scotland) is the legal deposit library of Scotland and is one of the country's National Collections.

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Natural person

In jurisprudence, a natural person is a person (in legal meaning, i.e., one who has its own legal personality) that is an individual human being, as opposed to a legal person, which may be a private (i.e., business entity or non-governmental organization) or public (i.e., government) organization.

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Nominet UK

Nominet UK is the.uk domain name registry in the United Kingdom, which was founded by Dr Willie Black and five others on 14 May 1996 when its predecessor, the "Naming Committee" was unable to deal with the volume of registrations then being sought under the.uk domain.

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Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

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OpenDNSSEC

OpenDNSSEC is a computer program that manages the security of domain names on the Internet.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Private limited company

A private limited company is a type of business entity in "private" ownership used in many jurisdictions in contrast to "public" ownership, with some differences from country to country.

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Proposed top-level domain

The Domain Name System of the Internet consists of a set of top-level domains which constitute the root domain of the hierarchical name space and database.

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Public limited company

A public limited company (legally abbreviated to plc) is a type of public company under the United Kingdom company law, some Commonwealth jurisdictions, and the Republic of Ireland.

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Queueing theory

Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, or queues.

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Royal Society

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.

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Saint Helena

Saint Helena is a volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean, east of Rio de Janeiro and 1,950 kilometres (1,210 mi) west of the Cunene River, which marks the border between Namibia and Angola in southwestern Africa.

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Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic and consisting of the island of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and the archipelago of Tristan da Cunha.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

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Tokamak

A tokamak (Токамáк) is a device that uses a powerful magnetic field to confine a hot plasma in the shape of a torus.

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Top-level domain

A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.

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Turks and Caicos Islands

The Turks and Caicos Islands (and), or TCI for short, are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies.

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UCAS

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) is a UK-based organisation whose main role is to operate the application process for British universities.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is a UK government research organisation responsible for the development of nuclear fusion power.

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Universities in the United Kingdom

Universities in the United Kingdom have generally been instituted by Royal Charter, Papal Bull, Act of Parliament or an instrument of government under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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West Exe School

West Exe School is one of five secondary schools in Exeter, Devon.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.

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.ac

.ac is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.

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.ai

.ai is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Anguilla.

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.aq

.aq is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Antarctica (although not a country).

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.bm

.bm is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Bermuda.

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.cn

.cn is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the People's Republic of China.

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.com

The domain name com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.cym

.cym is a GeoTLD reserved for eventual assignment to the Cayman Islands.

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.cymru

.cymru is one of two geographic top level domains (GeoTLD) for Wales (the other being.wales).

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.de

.de is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Federal Republic of Germany.

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.fk

.fk is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Falkland Islands.

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.gb

.gb is a reserved Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Great Britain.

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.gg

.gg is the country code top-level domain for the crown dependency of Guernsey, including the islands of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou and Lihou (plus several uninhabited islands and islets).

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.gi

.gi is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory.

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.gs

.gs is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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.im

.im is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Isle of Man.

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.io

The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD).io is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory.

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.je

.je is the country code top-level domain for the crown dependency of Jersey.

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.ky

.ky is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Cayman Islands.

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.london

.london is a top-level domain (TLD) for London, England.

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.ms

.ms is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory.

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.net

The domain name net is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.sch

In the domain name system (DNS),.sch is a second-level domain used by several countries, including Iran (.ir), Saudi Arabia (.sa), and the United Kingdom (.uk), as a subdomain to represent primary and secondary schools.

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.scot

.scot is a top-level domain for Scotland and Scottish culture, including the Gaelic and Scots languages.

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.sh

.sh is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, British Overseas Territories.

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.tc

.tc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Turks and Caicos Islands.

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.wales

.wales is one of two geographic top level domains for Wales (the other being.cymru) which were put forth by Nominet UK in 2012.

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.UK, .ac.uk, .bl.uk, .british-library.uk, .co.uk, .jet.uk, .judiciary.uk, .ltd.uk, .me.uk, .mod.uk, .net.uk, .nhs.uk, .nic.uk, .nls.uk, .org.uk, .parliament.uk, .plc.uk, .police.uk, .sch.uk, .sco.uk, .scot.uk, .soc.uk, Ac.uk, Co.uk, Couk, Couks, Dot uk, Judiciary.uk, Ltd.uk, Me.uk, Mod.uk, Net.uk, Nhs.uk, Nic.uk, Org.uk, Parliament.uk, Plc.uk, Police.uk, Sch.uk.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk

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