News - Nominet to introduce shorter .uk domain name in summer 2014

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Shorter and simpler, will save three keystrokes many times a day.

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what was original reason for co.uk?

Interesting I may buy up the ones for my sites.

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Originally Posted by Smikis

what was original reason for co.uk?

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UK commercial. As opposed to UK govt., non-gov or academic.

Interestingly, the British Library already uses a .uk domain name and has been for many years!

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Originally Posted by Smikis

what was original reason for co.uk?

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The same reason we have .ac.uk .org.uk and .gov.uk

It's disappointing really, this is nothing other than a new cash-cow for nominet.

Depending on price (I never trust 'announcement' prices lol) I'll likely grab the uk version of my business .co.uk domain, purely so another business doesn't grab it and try to be 'me'. After that I'll just shove a redirect to my .co.uk domain so they'll all end up at the same address as before lol.

Do I think it's needed, no but I'm sure nominet needs another source of income :)

Can UK individuals still opt-out of WHOIS under this new domain if they're non-trading?

/buys hexus.uk

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Originally Posted by Smikis

what was original reason for co.uk?

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It's the UK .com (commercial) - standards were weak but co = commerical. E.g Foo & Co. A lot of other countries use .co, some use com like .com.au (silly aussies).

Of course a big boost to the Colombian registrar, people mostly only buy .co to protect their brand from mis-types ending up somewhere porny. Maybe the .co domain is also why .com came into being rather than make Columbia feel sad because they couldn't have a nice 2 letter domain.

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Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle

It's the UK .com (commercial) - standards were weak but co = commerical. E.g Foo & Co. A lot of other countries use .co, some use com like .com.au (silly aussies).

Of course a big boost to the Colombian registrar, people mostly only buy .co to protect their brand from mis-types ending up somewhere porny. Maybe the .co domain is also why .com came into being rather than make Columbia feel sad because they couldn't have a nice 2 letter domain.

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On a related note I'd be so sad if the Cook islands ever decide to alter their domain :/

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Originally Posted by Cog

On a related note I'd be so sad if the Cook islands ever decide to alter their domain :/

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Presumably they don't have a .co !

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Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle

Presumably they don't have a .co !

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They do! :laugh: