OT: Unusual email address

It's a standard .uk domain, I have one.

Not really. It will be under the .uk TLD

No, xxxxx.uk is an easy to get and relatively cheap domain name. I have isbd.uk for example, so <almost anything>@isbd.uk will get to me.

There has been a rash of those new last bits like .uk in this sense and anyone is free to grab one with their surname while its free.

Nope, nothing to do with that at all.

They are free to do so now, but there was a period of several years where the .uk domain was reserved for the owner of the corresponding .co.uk domain (and I think .org.uk etc, had second dibs but I can't remember the hierarchy of priority).

See my email address used here for quite a while, and most photo links I upload e.g. [not interesting]

Thanks for the explanations. It was not something I'd seen before for a private individual, especially as the person also has a traditional email address.

I have one just like that, except that the top level isn't .uk.

Anyone with a .co.uk domain was given first refusal on the .uk equivalent.

I've not seen it before, however have have had surname.me.uk for many years.

And the new one looks much better.

Nominet threw open access to any name you wanted under the uk top level domain a few years back. So you can have anythingyoulike.uk (assuming no one else has it a few other rules).

Nope. He must have just registered lastname.uk

If you are willing to have your own domain, you can do as you please as far as I know. I often do wonder though that if you wanted to have an address pissoff.co.uk, whether you might have a bit of an issue getting. Brian

I have that domain name too! (for my name)

you could have an address like that too. Just needs a little investment

The rules change. Years ago I had a company, the name of which ended in "Control & Instrumentation", shortened to "nnnnnn C&I". When I applied for a domain, I could, of course, not have an "&", so the logical route was to make it "nnnnnnCI.co.uk", but they would not allow that as that was not properly related to my company name. They insisted that it had to be "nnnnnnCandI.co.uk", despite me pointing out that it made it look like a sweet company!

It appears to be available if you want it.

$ whois f*ck.me.uk

Domain name: f*ck.me.uk

Data validation: Nominet was able to match the registrant's name and address against a 3rd party data source on 05-Jan-2023

Registrar: Andrews &amp; Arnold Limited [Tag = AAISP] URL:

Relevant dates: Registered on: 14-Jan-2002

However:

And his son's school e-mail address:

And that would be anti-Italian discrimination. "Fucksia" is a common surname in Italy.

Well lots of girls called Fucshia. And they do.