The choice of a .com TLD instead of a .uk for a thing called "national" is reall...

timthorn · on Dec 29, 2023

National Grid has operations in the USA these days, it's no longer a UK only business.

seabass-labrax · on Dec 30, 2023

.com is short for 'commercial'. The USA has their own .us TLD, but for some reason the Americans never particularly wanted to use it.

National Grid Ventures is registered in the UK, so they would be eligible for a *.uk domain if they wanted one.

mkl · on Dec 30, 2023

And .gov is short for "government", but only the USA's, and .edu is short for "education", but only the USA's.

There were strange third-level-only location-based restrictions on .us for a long time, created by the one guy (!) responsible for it, so it didn't get much use in the critical 1990s period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us

lmm · on Dec 30, 2023

Lots of "national" US companies use .com instead of .us, it's not that unusual.