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.gb
Introduced 1985
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status retired
Registry JANET(UK)
Sponsor JANET(UK)
Intended use Entities connected with United Kingdom
Actual use Fallen into disuse in favour of .uk
Registration restrictions No registrations presently being taken
Structure Government sites formerly found under hmg.gb
Documents
Dispute policies None
Web site None

.gb is a reserved Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United Kingdom. Introduced at the same time as the UK's other top-level domain (.uk), it was never widely used, and as it is no longer possible to register under this domain, it has since fallen into disuse. Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ... JANET(UK) is the trading name for the JNT Association, which since 1994 has had responsibility for the management of the United Kingdom’s Higher Education networking programme. ... JANET(UK) is the trading name for the JNT Association, which since 1994 has had responsibility for the management of the United Kingdom’s Higher Education networking programme. ... A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters which follow the final dot of any domain name. ... A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ...


The rule in the Domain Name System is that a top-level domain for a country is derived from the corresponding two-letter code in the ISO 3166-1 list. Accordingly the correct code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is GB, and the .gb top-level domain was therefore delegated. It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ... ISO 3166-1, as part of the ISO 3166 standard, provides codes for the names of countries and dependent areas. ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent...


The pre-existing JANET Name Registration Scheme had used "UK" as a country code, so the UK also applied to Jon Postel of IANA for the .uk TLD. This was granted, and all UK domain names are now issued as .uk, rather than .gb. The JANET NRS (Name Registration Scheme) was a hierarchical naming scheme adopted for use on United Kingdom academic and research networks before the similar system used by the Internet DNS had been fully established. ... Jon Postel (Photo by Irene Fertik, USC News Service. ... The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the entity that oversees global IP address allocation, DNS root zone management, and other Internet protocol assignments. ...


.gb was used for a number of years, mainly by UK government organisations and commercial e-mail services using X.400-based e-mail infrastructure. This simplified translating between DNS domains and X.400 addresses, which used "GB" as a country code.[1] Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... In computing, X.400 is an OSI standard developed by the ITU-T (at the time the CCITT) in cooperation with ISO for the exchange of messages, both between people and between software applications. ...


With the demise of X.400 e-mail and IANA's general aim of one TLD per country, use of .gb declined; the domain remains in existence, but it is not open to new subdomain registrations. In computing, X.400 is an OSI standard developed by the ITU-T (at the time the CCITT) in cooperation with ISO for the exchange of messages, both between people and between software applications. ...


One .gb subdomain still exists in the DNS (as of 2007): dra.hmg.gb, belonging to Her Majesty's Government's former Defence Research Agency. However, the domain is no longer used. Her Majestys Government, or when the Sovereign is male, His Majestys Government, abbreviated HMG or HM Government, is the formal title used by the Government of the United Kingdom. ... The Defence Research Agency (normally known as DRA), was an agency of the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) from April 1991 until April 1995. ...


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