# Why the .co in .co.uk and others?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 2, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-co-in-co-uk-and-others/508680 "2009-09-02T21:44:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-co-in-co-uk-and-others/508680/41 "2009-09-05T20:29:51Z")

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I wish the whole .com domain had never been invented, or at the very least that US companies would have been compelled to use .co.us. I love the .us domain. Much easier to type [ci.chi.il.us](http://ci.chi.il.us) for the **Ci** ty of **Chi** cago in the state of **Il** linois in the **US**. It’s clear, it’s concise and it’s accurate.

Personally, the whole thing would have been done a lot better if [Jon Postel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel) hadn’t died. A whole [huge and inflexible bureaucracy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN) sprang up to do a job that he handled in his spare time.

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