The value of .uk.com domains

[eseyo]

It was a long night last night (working, not playing), therefore forgive the potential stupidness of this question...

Running an OSE report on a website earlier their top linking domain was *.uk.com.

This is a valid TLD, and I know for sure that the website has not acquired links direct from the uk.com website but from some-other-registered-domain.uk.com.

What I am asking is does the Moz Calculation and/or the pagerank calculation give more value to these links?

*.uk.com has a Domain Authority of 71 and 156,497 linking root domains.

If so i'm gonna go buy me a bunch of .uk.com domains.....

Opinions please.

[SarahBird]

Great Question Scott. This particular domain has stumped several other people.

uk.com is not a valid cc tld.  The proper cctld for the uk is .co.uk.   What you're looking at is two-letter rootdomain on a .com.  It's just like shoes.com or anything else.   People can basically buy subdomains from the owner of the uk.com rootdomain and host their websites there.  As you can see, it's a clever strategy because they get alot of diverse incoming links from all the subdomains they sell on their root domain. Pretty clever, huh?

[Tompt]

This is the second one of these that I have seen when a uk.com domain was mentioned, and I think it's an error like you say.

Here's the one I saw before:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/designed-new-website-with-new-domain-has-for-than-24-million-links-over-night-on-seomoz-how-has-this-happend

Ooops and found another:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/incorrect-domain-authority-result-on-seo-tool-bar-and-ose

It's a tricky problem because the domain uk.com is valid as a domain (this has since proven not to be the case) as well as a suffix.

EDIT: Ooops on my part, see Sarah Bird's answer, she is entirely correct.