Notable .UK websites

[Admin]

I thought we could grow a list of notable .UK websites to see how it is being adopted by major companies / brands... who wants to start?

 

[monaghan]

Not sure how notable, but we had a pizza leaflet the other week perfect-pizza.uk, the family thought I was bonkers for focusing on the domain name rather than the pizza!

 

[martin-s]

bl.uk is the only one I can think of

 

[grantw]

I recently noticed Heart Internet had switched over to .uk

 

[Admin]

Decent blog post explaining why they did it, its over a year old but I hadnt read it before... https://www.heartinternet.uk/blog/why-we-moved-to-uk/

 

[martin-s]

Can't wait to read the "Why we moved back" post

 

[ian]

Ermmm, notable ones, I really can't think of any, worrying isn't it!

 

[Admin]

I cannot think of any, there must be some large sites on .UK....surely !?

 

[ian]

Nominet.uk

 

[Skinner]

Didn't Heart moved because of penalty, I'm sure I read that somewhere.

o2, seem to be using o2.uk on mobile devices. I see the odd small bussiness using them,, but then I see lots of .US and .CO domains being used on the high street too.

 

[yorkshiredomainer]

Domainlore.uk is a .uk! Also, the Police and various government depts have used it since before it was available for public registration; NHS.uk and MOD.uk for example.

 

[monaghan]

Domainlore.uk is a .uk!

Hardly a notable domain, suspect 99% of users are in the domain industry.

Also, the Police and various government depts have used it since before it was available for public registration; NHS.uk and MOD.uk for example.

A number of the original .uk top levels were already in use outside of Nominet control (as part of the original .uk delegations), so again not really what the thread is asking.

I guess from the lack of posts, nobody's really found any notable use of a .uk domain suggesting what we all predicted before the changes. They are just another domain to add to the list to buy when looking at brand protection.

 

[Edwin]

Only one of the busiest sites on the web (as per Alexa data) is using their .uk for their primary site (it's a web hosting and domain registration firm) even though 56% of the Alexa Top 20,000 sites have registered the .uk to match their .co.uk!

That's 114 out of the 204 sites which feature within the 20,000 top sites in the world which have taken up the .uk. There's only been one new .uk registration amongst those 204 sites in the last 4 months, so the on-going takeup is glacial.

Here's what those 114 sites are doing with their .uk domains:

• blank page: 4 (3.5%)
• does not resolve: 44 (38.6%)
• official site: 1 (0.9%)
• separate .uk site: 4 (3.5%)
• redirects to .com: 4 (3.5%)
• redirects to .co.uk: 32 (28.1%)
• registrar holding page: 25 (21.9%)

 

[Blossom]

Decent blog post explaining why they did it, its over a year old but I hadnt read it before... https://www.heartinternet.uk/blog/why-we-moved-to-uk/

Thanks, I wrote that! Feels like forever ago

Didn't Heart moved because of penalty, I'm sure I read that somewhere.

If you did read that, it's not true

 

[DomainM]

Thought I'd bump this thread. Any new additions.

business.hsbc.uk

Maybe a cheat as they've used it for a subdomain.

 

[invincible]

total.uk - I've regularly seen this in their advertising

 

[freddy]

maybe the promotion of nominet next 2 month will motivate a few more to take the .uk for free, there will be for sure some that move. Instead of moving my hosting.co.uk to .uk I build an additionally site.

 

[DomainM]

What promotion?

 

[freddy]

last month I was told by 2 nominet Representatives (channel account manager) that in July and August .co.uk holders can register their .uk for free if they apply for 2 years. It was on a little Domain Conference in Germany.

 

[Edwin]

last month I was told by 2 nominet Representatives (channel account manager) that in July and August .co.uk holders can register their .uk for free if they apply for 2 years. It was on a little Domain Conference in Germany.

Covered in much more detail here
https://www.acorndomains.co.uk/threads/right-of-registration-promotion.147235/