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In November, 2011, Nominet suspended over 2,000 domain names that were identified by Metropolitan police as belonging to people engaged in fraudulent retail activities. This is the third year it has been doing this pre-Christmas crackdown on illegal retail practices. It worked with the appropriate [[registrar]]s and notified the individuals in advance that there domains were being suspended as they were in breach of contract with Nominet.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/another-2000-uk-fraud-domains-taken-down/ UK Fraud Domains Taken Down, DomainIncite.com]</ref> | In November, 2011, Nominet suspended over 2,000 domain names that were identified by Metropolitan police as belonging to people engaged in fraudulent retail activities. This is the third year it has been doing this pre-Christmas crackdown on illegal retail practices. It worked with the appropriate [[registrar]]s and notified the individuals in advance that there domains were being suspended as they were in breach of contract with Nominet.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/another-2000-uk-fraud-domains-taken-down/ UK Fraud Domains Taken Down, DomainIncite.com]</ref> | ||
== | == Second Level Domains == | ||
Nominet maintains the register of .uk domain names which has over eight million domain names. Nominet also maintains many second-level domains, such as: | Nominet maintains the register of .uk domain names which has over eight million domain names. Nominet also maintains many [[SLD|second-level domains]], such as: | ||
* [[.co.uk]] | * [[.co.uk]] | ||
* [[.org.uk]] | * [[.org.uk]] | ||
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* [[.me.uk]] | * [[.me.uk]] | ||
* [[.sch.uk]] | * [[.sch.uk]] | ||
There are a total of 15 SLDs after Nominet created judiciary.uk in November, 2011. Some of these extensions are reserved for special social sectors, such as the judiciary SLD.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/nominet-approves-judiciary-uk/ Nominet Approves Judiciary UK domainincite.com]</ref> | |||
==Awards== | ==Awards== |