Is the British Parliment Master of its own Domain? Nobody is quite sure. This is not a political comment, but an Internet one. The British House of Parliment uses www.parliament.uk as its URL but according to the Register Article parliment.uk (along with 13 other .uk domains) were registered before Aug 1, 1996, before Nominet (the British top level domain registry) was created. The anomoly came to light when the extensive web site decided to start conducting e-commerce and were unable to get an SSL cerificate from Thwate.