.uk domain celebrates 25-year anniversary

Five years before the world's first website was launched by CERN - the European organization for nuclear research - in 1990, the .uk domain was created. On July 26th, the domain celebrated its 25-year anniversary.

Since the internet's launch in the 1980s, more than 8.5 million internet addresses have been registered with the UK top-level domain all over Britain.

The domain was created four months after the .com domain. A recently conducted survey revealed that 77 percent of the responding internet users in Britain prefer .uk over the often used alternative .com. On a world basis, .uk is the fourth-most popular domain after .com, .de and .net.

The ICANN is currently going through a process which hopefully will lead to the creation of company domains. Earlier this year, the pornography industry got its own .xxx domain. Other actors have also lobbied for the creation of similar industry-related domains. Amongst others, Al Gore has fronted the green movements case and argued for a .eco one.