Have .org.uk domains moved towards their original purpose

[inbound]

Would you agree that, with .uk being mainly commercial and exact match domains being of less interest due to changes at Google, .org.uk domains are now much more likely to be used by/of interest to non-commercial projects?

I am researching a personal project that fits well on the .org.uk I bought for it and can see that (as I was interested in what related terms were out there) there are plenty of .org.uk domains free to register that have surely dropped (I just don't believe that some of them have never been registered).

I',m not buying .org.uk to sell on, I'm buying to use them, so it's a good thing from my point of view.

Do you think the market has changed?

 

[websaway]

Yes, agreed.

 

[Brassneck]

Most likely - due to Google no longer making it easy to rank based on keyword domains alone.

 

[Retired_Member38]

Their value as seo plays has been all but destroyed for competitive phrases... but imo nothing really changes.

People will still try and rank stuff like bluesuedeshoes.org.uk with a commercial angle. Others will build charity / non profit sites on random .org.uk domains. There is very little cross over of domains that could have had either of a commercial site or a charity on them.