Google has announced that it's retiring separate country code top-level domain names like google.co.uk or google.com.br and ...

Google is doing away with its use of country code top-level domain names. Instead, it will redirect everyone to Google.com.

For example, those in the UK will no longer see google.co.uk and will instead be redirected to google.com if they try to access the country code top-level domain name (ccTLD).