OT: Unusual email address

[Chris Hogg]

A friend has the email address of the form [e-mail]

I've never seen one like that before. Is it specific to Apple iphone, for example, or something similar?

[Jeff Gaines]

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

[Jethro_uk]

Not really. It will be under the .uk TLD

[Chris Green]

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.

[chop]

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.

[Andy Burns]

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]

[Chris Hogg]

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.

[Bob Eager]

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.

[SteveW]

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

[Rod Speed]

And the new one looks much better.

[John Rumm]

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).

123-reg caused a stir by giving all owners of a .co.uk the equivalent .uk free of charge... but with auto renew enabled in case you forgot to cancel it!

[The Natural Philosopher]

Nope. He must have just registered lastname.uk

[Brian Gaff]

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

[Bob Eager]

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

[Robin]

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

[SteveW]

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!

[Rod Speed]

It appears to be available if you want it.

[Alan J. Wylie]

$ 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:

gov't proposes banning swearing

And his son's school e-mail address:

[Ottavio Caruso]

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

E' guerra, patrioti! (Willing to switch side if money is good)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Well lots of girls called Fucshia. And they do.