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Re:Is it an accident? No, it's a wildcard subdomain by cbd1984 on Sunday April 12, 2015 @06:17PM (#9364940)
Interesting that they would allow such an odd domain to be registered in the first place. It seems like a big security hole.
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Re:Is it an accident? No, it's a wildcard subdomain by MatthewWilkes on Sunday April 12, 2015 @06:19PM (#9364946)
Why is that interesting? c.uk is a registered domain, the WHOIS for subdomains correctly states that it can't be registered.
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Re:Is it an accident? No, it's a wildcard subdomain by cbd1984 on Sunday April 12, 2015 @06:22PM (#9364951)
> Why is that interesting?

Because I found it interesting.

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Re:Is it an accident? No, it's a wildcard subdomain by ars on Sunday April 12, 2015 @06:32PM (#9364982)
No, he means what do you find unusual about it. It seems like an ordinary name to me.

Is it that it seems too easy to typo?

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Re:Is it an accident? No, it's a wildcard subdomain by GSimon on Sunday April 12, 2015 @07:14PM (#9365098)
> No, he means what do you find unusual about it

> It seems like a big security hole.

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Re:Is it an accident? No, it's a wildcard subdomain by MatthewWilkes on Monday April 13, 2015 @09:02AM (#9367336)
The problem with c.uk. being an allowed domain is, I agree, very dodgy. This thread is about the WHOIS returning that it's not responsible for foo.c.uk. though which is absolutely what I'd expect.
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Re:Is it an accident? No, it's a wildcard subdomain by Yelwis on Sunday April 12, 2015 @07:44PM (#9365176)
Because .UK only allowed registrations at the third level for decades, i.e. example.co.uk, example.ac.uk etc. I think it's also the most-used CCTLD.

Then they introduced second level domains, but they're still rarely used at present. ebay.uk and google.uk are registered, but don't do anything yet.

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Re:Is it an accident? No, it's a wildcard subdomain by MrSourz on Sunday April 12, 2015 @06:24PM (#9364958)
You're missing something here. The UK is a country that allows second-level domains e.g., co.uk, gov.uk, org.uk as well as just domains ending in .uk.

This organizations owns c.uk (so the who-is you should lookup is just c.uk.

What I find hard to believe is that ti looks like it was registered on: 10-Jun-2014!?

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Re:Is it an accident? No, it's a wildcard subdomain by icebraining on Sunday April 12, 2015 @06:42PM (#9365011)
What I find hard to believe is that ti looks like it was registered on: 10-Jun-2014!?

That's the date when they started allowing registration for top level domains (before they just allowed second level).

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Re:Is it an accident? No, it's a wildcard subdomain by iamben on Sunday April 12, 2015 @06:41PM (#9365005)
You need to own the .co.uk to get the .uk (at the minute), unless the .co.uk hasn't been registered.
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Re:Is it an accident? No, it's a wildcard subdomain by MrSourz on Sunday April 12, 2015 @06:59PM (#9365059)
That's a sensible practice. Thanks for the info!
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