The .UK revolution

Domaintial · Jul 11, 2019

lazarus said:
The naming committee should have released the TLD from the get go like every other country did.

But then how would the board renumerations have exploded like they did... don't be silly... money money money.

dougs · Jul 11, 2019

Interestingly people who have Google penalties on the .co.uk can just start again with the .uk

Jiblob · Jul 11, 2019

I've added Domainlore and LeaseCar to the switched list

Domaintial · Jul 11, 2019

Jiblob said:
I've added Domainlore and LeaseCar to the switched list

Nice, you could really do with making that page look nicer... wouldn't take much effort/time with a little bootstrap... Once you have more on there, I'd suggest you poke Nominet marketing to get their input too, I'd suspect they might be interested in supporting/supplying info to a "showcase" to support the ethos of "see dropping the .co bit was a good idea... all of these sites agree with us...".

2pence.

Jiblob · Jul 11, 2019

Thank you for the input. I will be sprucing it up very soon! It's just a domain with a cloudflare worker at the moment. I've done as little as possible to get it up and running as basic and as early as possible. I'm going to include domain sales on there too I think to attract people to .UK, then we'll go from there.

Murray · Jul 11, 2019

Jiblob said:
I'd settle down to read it though, because it's a long list........

Does it have to be co.uk to .uk? Nominet is an obvious one, but that was org.uk

Jiblob · Jul 11, 2019

@Domaintial I've just spent about 5 mins making it a look a little more pleasing to the eye. Obviously looking to give it real style asap..

Murray said:
Does it have to be co.uk to .uk? Nominet is an obvious one, but that was org.uk

Cheers. I have added Nominet to the list, whilst it's a bit of a cheat like DomainLore, they are forging the way ultimately by choosing .UK themselves.

Murray · Jul 11, 2019

Jiblob said:
Cheers. I have added Nominet to the list, whilst it's a bit of a cheat like DomainLore, they are forging the way ultimately by choosing .UK themselves.

You can use this search to find .uk sites, whether they switched or not is another matter

Jiblob · Jul 11, 2019

Murray said:
You can use this search to find .uk sites, whether they switched or not is another matter

Spot on, that's awesome. I was using site:.uk but and I tried all sorts to filter out the .co.uk's but I didn't try a minus before the 'site:'

Murray · Jul 11, 2019

Jiblob said:
Spot on, that's awesome. I was using site:.uk but and I tried all sorts to filter out the .co.uk's but I didn't try a minus before the 'site:'

Only trouble is I shouldn't have said sites, "being used" is more accurate, since it's also showing .uk's being redirected like a.uk

Jiblob · Jul 11, 2019

For the purposes of the site, I see it as a place for people to see who is using .UK. In time this list might become so compelling that others will switch. So as a mechanism for this, just using .UK as the main UK presence for a site is enough as far as I'm concerned. Either not using the .co.uk at all, or redirecting the .co.uk to the .uk

Jiblob · Jul 11, 2019

We could really use more big hitters like pokerstars to add to the list if it's going to work. Nhs.uk and Parliament.uk are interesting ones. NHS has been on .UK forever and any government ones are non-commercial so they're not going to be as much of a draw to persuade others to switch. Worthy of the list I reckon nontheless.

AssetDomains · Jul 11, 2019

heartinternet.uk switched some time ago if I remember rightly

Kaleido · Jul 11, 2019

Jiblob said:
Nhs.uk and Parliament.uk are interesting ones.

Police.uk is another one. I really like that each county constabulary has its own subdomain, for example https://cheshire.police.uk

Jiblob · Jul 11, 2019

AssetDomains said:
heartinternet.uk switched some time ago if I remember rightly

GLYMPSE said:
Police.uk is another one. I really like that each county constabulary has its own subdomain, for example https://cheshire.police.uk

Added both, thanks!

dee · Jul 11, 2019

didnt http://www.stephenfry.uk come up in adverts for the switch to uk

super-whois · Jul 11, 2019

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/ is the one with the highest Majestic rank.

stitchbob · Jul 11, 2019

Sirbigman said:
Google is smarter folks, don't waste your money on this.

Would this be a good time to mention that ukgas.co.uk is going to auction soon?

Jiblob · Jul 13, 2019

Updated https://switchedto.uk/ including a checker.

Enter a .co.uk or a .uk and it'll tell you whether the .UK resolves and if the .CO.UK redirects to the .UK. You can enter the protocol https:// or http:// into it to check each.

It's not perfect yet but it's working in it's basic form...

(Doesn't work on mobile yet. Working on that now)