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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/
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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.
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.
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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.
Hardly a notable domain, suspect 99% of users are in the domain industry.
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.
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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:
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%)
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Thanks, I wrote that! Feels like forever ago
If you did read that, it's not true
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Covered in much more detail here
https://www.acorndomains.co.uk/threads/right-of-registration-promotion.147235/
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It is available to Nominet members. You can sign up for 2 free years of .uk until September I think. Nice gesture, but ultimately only gives you a couple of months 'if' you didn't plan exercising your rights until June 2019 anyway, which most won't. I doubt a free promotion is suddenly going to see a surge of companies deciding to switch to a .uk for the sake of what would have been a few £ registration anyway.
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