.org.uk is part of the .uk Domain Name System. It is the second largest second level domain under .uk. It was one of the first to be issued by the UK Naming Committee and has a 'weak' and 'open' charter, that is, it is intended for use by non-commercial or not-for-profit bodies but no effort is made to enforce that, similar to .org registrations, which it mirrors in many ways. The Domain Name System or DNS is a system that stores information about hostnames and domain names in a kind of distributed database on networks, such as the Internet. ... .org is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used in the Internets Domain Name System. ...

.org.uk is operated by Nominet UK under its normal rules and terms and conditions. Nominet UK is the . ...

External links

• Nominet UK Second Level Domains Page (http://www.nic.uk/SecondLevelDomains/AboutSecondLevelDomains/)