Table of Contents
22 relations: Cabinet Office, Country code, Country code top-level domain, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Defence Research Agency, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Domain Name System, Email, Government of the United Kingdom, Great Britain, ICANN, Internet, ISO 3166-1, JANET, Jisc, MIT Press, Qinetiq, Springer Science+Business Media, Top-level domain, United Kingdom, X.400, .uk.
- Domain names of the United Kingdom
- Internet properties established in 1985
Cabinet Office
The Cabinet Office is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
Country code
A country code is a short alphanumeric identification code for countries and dependent areas.
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.
See .gb and Country code top-level domain
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency
The Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) was a part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) between 1995 and 2 July 2001.
See .gb and Defence Evaluation and Research Agency
Defence Research Agency
The Defence Research Agency (DRA) was an executive agency of the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) from April 1991 until April 1995.
See .gb and Defence Research Agency
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom.
See .gb and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
Domain Name System
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed name service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources on the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
See .gb and Domain Name System
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.
See .gb and Email
Government of the United Kingdom
The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
See .gb and Government of the United Kingdom
Great Britain
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.
ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces and numerical spaces of the Internet, ensuring the Internet's stable and secure operation.
See .gb and ICANN
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
See .gb and Internet
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes) is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.
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.
See .gb and JANET
Jisc
Jisc is a United Kingdom not-for-profit organisation that provides network and IT services and digital resources in support of further and higher education and research, as well as the public sector.
See .gb and Jisc
MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Qinetiq
QinetiQ (as in kinetic) is a multinational defence technology company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire.
See .gb and Qinetiq
Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
See .gb and Springer Science+Business Media
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 after the root domain.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
X.400
X.400 is a suite of ITU-T recommendations that define the ITU-T Message Handling System (MHS).
See .gb and X.400
.uk
.uk is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United Kingdom. .gb and .uk are 1985 establishments in the United Kingdom, country code top-level domains, domain names of the United Kingdom and internet properties established in 1985.
See .gb and .uk
See also
Domain names of the United Kingdom
Internet properties established in 1985
- .arpa
- .com
- .edu
- .gb
- .gov
- .il
- .mil
- .net
- .org
- .uk
- .us
- Byte Information Exchange
- Quantum Link
- The WELL
- WIDE Project
References
Also known as .GB (TLD), .GB (top-level domain).