The .UK revolution

Jiblob · Jan 10, 2020

Yup. Pretty good eh

Kaleido · Feb 17, 2020

I was watching Match of the Day and spotted LDSports.uk on the pitchside digital signage at St Mary's Stadium. It's the first .UK I've seen on TV. LDSports.co.uk is registered to the same owner but is showing a GoDaddy parking page.

Ben Thomas · Feb 17, 2020

Awesome. I’m still looking out for one

3gmedia · Feb 17, 2020

I spotted this on the road on Saturday.

lazarus · Feb 17, 2020

Are you drawing our attention to the unhappy dog thing or the web address?

Ben Thomas · Feb 17, 2020

Poor doggo

3gmedia · Feb 17, 2020

Interesting site:

Bangli.uk

And

Pokerstars.uk

And

NLS.uk
National Libraryof Scotland

Jiblob · Feb 19, 2020

I was watching a video on a big building channel the other day and the screed company has southernscreed.uk plastered on the side of the van.

I'm seeing more and more of them, it's nice.

Murray · Jun 27, 2020

This .uk is probably going to get a lot of publicity

Edit> not that the website is currently up

Ben Thomas · Jun 27, 2020

Ridicu

Murray said:
This .uk is probably going to get a lot of publicity

Edit> not that the website is currently up

Ridiculous. I think this is the most racist thing I've seen this year (and I've seen a lot).

Kaleido · Mar 29, 2022

It's nearly 2 years since the last post in this thread, but I thought I'd give it a bump because I recently spotted NationalParks.uk

Has anyone got any more?

Azam.net · Mar 29, 2022

Very few companies have switched from .co.uk to .uk. Or even now websites using .uk from the moment go for their domain names rather than .co.uk.

One would have thought there would have been much more by now.

websaway · Mar 29, 2022

GBnews.uk

Ben Thomas · Mar 30, 2022

As an aside, police.uk is misconfigured. Which is embarassing.

Jiblob · Mar 30, 2022

Ben Thomas said:
As an aside, police.uk is misconfigured. Which is embarassing.

They're too busy virtue signalling about the current thing to get things right.

seemly · Mar 30, 2022

Ben Thomas said:
As an aside, police.uk is misconfigured. Which is embarassing.

In what way? It resolves for me?

seemly · Mar 30, 2022

Trauiner said:
Doesn't load the non-www for me.

Ahh, I see! I didn't even try that. Not sure how I ended up on the www subdomain, as I never type that in anyway...

splashweb · Mar 31, 2022

Kind of an industry insider, but krystal.uk switched soon after launch if I recall. Naked too, takes full advantage of the shorter, neater, thing.

webber · Mar 31, 2022

Many hosting providers/registrars were early adopters:
awebhosting.uk, brixly.uk, cloudnext.uk, easily.uk, edgehosting.uk, gbnames.uk, HeartInternet.uk, hostingsystems.uk, hostmedia.uk, hostworld.uk, krystal.uk, netcetera.uk, pacwebhosting.uk, quickhost.uk, xlhosting.uk

LCHappy · Mar 31, 2022

One of the issues always was that Google would give no guidance on how upgrading from .co.uk to .uk would effect SEO, or a gold standard way of doing it. Nominet did try to get some feedback from Google, but they wouldn't give any, they refused to answer any questions.

Many companies love the idea of .uk but put off by the risks of moving a successfully ranking site. At the moment, it's mostly newly launched sites that are using .uk. It will change at some point and .co.uk owners will be forced to make the switch, when that point is though, who knows.