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Britain Gets National .uk Web Address
hypnosec (2231454) writes 'Starting today businesses and individuals in the UK will be able to register a new national web address (".uk") and drop their existing ".co.uk" or ".com" suffix in favour of a shorter and snappier domain name. The entire process along with the transition is being overseen by private yet not-for-profit organisation Nominet, which has already started notifying existing customers with a ".co.uk" domain of their chance to adopt a ".uk" domain. Nominet will reserve all ".uk" domain names, which already have a ".co.uk" counterparts, for the next five years offering registrants the chance to adopt the new domain and to keep cyber squatters at bay.'
Another chance to give government bodies more money. Great.
They should add a ".uk" domain to all existing ."co.uk", ".td.uk" domains for free.
Everyone with a .co.uk domain name is now basically obligated to register (and pay for) another domain name within the next five years to avoid confusion.
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As a Nominet member I voted against this (twice now, they were defeated the first time, then ignored everyone). Perhaps someone from Nominet can tell me why somedomain.uk is pre-allocated to whoever has somedomain.co.uk rather than the owner of somedomain.org.uk.
... or they'll be battling, e.g. Frederick Connors in the courts.
what so we get .co.uk.uk and .td.uk.uk :-)
I've been waiting for this. I pre registered kowalch.uk for making awesome email addresses. -peter@kowalch.uk
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Surely they deserve .UK more than United Kingdom, a farce of an aggregation of separate "countries" who love the use of the term UK unless it's football worlcup where they can send multiple teams (Scotland, England, ...). What a joke!
I'm a happy .me.uk owner. What is going to happen to that over the next few years? Will it end up being sold off to the highest bidder once ".uk" has bedded in?
For example: http://bggc.org.uk/ vs. http://bggc.co.uk/ - is the new http://bggc.uk/ going to glof club or gliding club and why?
They already have .ua
No, really. What took so long?
So all of the people who sit on domain names that they registered just as the previous registration expired get to double their investment courtesy of Nominet. Great! .uk thrown in for free!
I'm not sure how other registrars do it but with Nominet, when a domain registration expires, the ability to re-register is only available to people who have a Nominet registrar account. So if you see that the domain that you really want is expiring then you as an individual can be ready in front of your computer to register it at the moment of expiry but someone with a Nominet account has already taken it. Now these guys get the
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What we should be doing is eliminating top-level names like .com, .org, .net, and especially .mil, because these are all American-biased. Instead, every country should get its own two-letter domain (.uk, .us, etc.), and inside each of those there should be .co, .org, .mil, .gov, etc. So Twinings Tea from London would have the site "twinings.co.uk", and that's it. Apple Computer would be "apple.co.us". Multinational corporations would get sites in the country where the corporate HQ is located. No multiple domains for the same company; companies only need a commercial address, not a .net or a .org since they aren't non-commercial entities. The Apache Foundation would get "apache.org.us", the US Navy would get "navy.mil.us", the Royal (British) Navy would get "navy.mil.uk", etc.
What they've done now is just a total mess.
Certainly an attention getter.
With all the spamming and phishing going on, I don't understand why more businesses don't use the *.ltd.uk and *.plc.uk domains which can ONLY be registered by the legal owners of the Limited company or Corporation, preventing people from domain squatting and adding a level of trust similar to https.
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Interestingly, I had thought the rules were simply that .co.uk had rights over .uk and that was it. However, I too have a .me.uk domain but the .co.uk version has not been registered by anyone. So a whois on my-domain .uk says the .me.uk has registration rights.
The rules are that, for the next five years, any .co.uk owner can register the corresponding .uk domain. If there isn't a .co.uk, the .org.uk owner can register, and if there isn't a .org.uk owner, the .me.uk owner can register it.
All other .uk subdomains don't get a bite at the cherry. Nor is there any protected time where a .org.uk or a .me.uk owner can register the .uk domain if the .co.uk owner doesn't want it.
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Seriously, i don't see why we cant just drop ALL top level domains entirely. 'google' not 'google.com' 'slashdot' not 'slashdot.org' etc. if businesses really want to split their traffic up by country, or otherwise distinguish themselves they can do it with subdomains any way they see fit (e.g. uk.google ). The idea of humans distinguishing between 'hotpants.org' and 'hotpants.com' is fundamentally flawed.
The public suffix list will need revision, I suppose.
I can't wait to be price-gouged.
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This reminds me of the inanity of a certain supposed educational institution that insists on calling itself 'KU'.
"Oh, so you're Kansas University."
"No! We are the University of Kansas!"
"So... you're UK."
"NO!!! That's Kentucky! We're KU!!"
Lather, Rinse, Stupid.
Okay, how do I get mine?
funny, I was just getting used to seeing .co.uk top level domain in my address bar when I visit a website in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. gonna be weird seeing .uk without its .co counterpart.
If the Scottish independence referendum is won in September, would the suffix not have to be changed to .ruk or whatever the initials the state that represents the rump UK would choose to call itself?
Since browsers now all support IRIs, this is likely going to be a big problem when someone registers something like gоv.uk or pоlice.uk (note that 2nd letter in each case is not 'o' but CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O: U+043E) and starts sending out "official" directives.
But only an idiot would by a .uk domain.
Unless you want to pay money for something that be seized by the City of London Police without due process at will...