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Is anyone registering .UK domains? They opened registration for anyone and there's a bunch of great one-word domains up for grabs. I haven't heard much about this extension on this forum and wanted to know all of your take.

UK residents already owning the .CO.UK extension received first dibs of its equivalent but now it's open registration. These .UK names seems to be much more better and catchy than .co.uk, but we'll see how things go. I suppose it's still too early to say.

There's still many great domains up for grab.
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Godaddy have been very poor at catching uk domains they just have rubbish software all the private catchers are getting the best names
Rubbish? Hahaha are you British? But you're right. Their software is total trash. Crazy even though they're the biggest registry. You would think they would have the best of the best. Good marketing and bad outdated tech.
Sorry to break it to you, but quite a few of those names didn't drop in the RoR release :chicken:

Some of them did though and like you say you really were going for gold. Those names and many others that are down right mediocre went in an instant. I wouldn't be surprised that you didn't get them seeing how quickly the decent ones are going.
I didnt have much to lose. At the least, I get a full refund. I pre-registered over 250 names. I doubt I would get anymore but it was still exciting. I am mainly into .COM anyway but I know there will be a market for these.
Perhaps people with only .COM experience and little experience of the UK market don't realise how competitive the .UK ccTLD market is in terms of dropcatching and reselling?

Regards...jmcc
Many who aren't in the UK likely wouldn't.
coin is @ $500, 25 hours to go.
Coin.uk is a great domain. I wonder what it will end at.
Hahaha yeah I realized it and was like, 'it doesn't matter anyway.' I mainly wanted to share the notification, hahaha.
 
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Hello,

I'm a noob into domaining and I think I've overdone it with the .uk domains as a lot of people told me there is almost no value in them.

So far I was able to catch the following :

bestmates.uk
cashout.uk
cryptolab.uk
dishy.uk
fitnessgym.uk
lawyerdirectory.uk
londonlawyer.uk
londonsolicitor.uk
medschool.uk
megayacht.uk
moneyorder.uk
mybody.uk
privatecoach.uk
saleauto.uk
tireshop.uk

What do you guys think ?

You have a couple of legal domains there as I buy legal domains at reg fee lol

Your

London solicitor. uk

Is worth a few quid As is your

Private coach

I have

Crypto solicitor

And

Crypto solicitors

And

Crypto lawyer

And

Crypto lawyers

In

.uk

And a few more

Tire is spelt wrong for the. uk as in the uk it's spelt tyre

Just like color is the states version and colour is the uk version etc

UK wouldn't use tire version

Even though the 2 languages are very similar there are slight differences in how some words are spelt
 
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I thought it is auctioned by SnapNames only, silly me. I backordered all the two letters and so far they wasn't able to get a single one into the auction.

Gd. uk

Is being sold at auction on

Domainlore. uk
 
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Yesterday I got a 3 letter adult .UK name beginning with c, ending with m and with a u in the middle.

I don't know whether to feel proud of myself or whether I should be ashamed of myself for having it on my list assuming others didn't... :penguin::hilarious:

Well done lol
 
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Its interesting that Blockhain.com owns blockchain.co.uk, yet they ignored the blockchain.uk. Good luck to the registrant.

Block chain as a concept is quite new

Eg I am from the uk and didn't really hear about block chain until about 3 years ago etc Eg 2016 ish etc so if a person does a who is check for block chain. Co.uk It must have been registered after the the date in 2014 meaning if it was registered in say 2015 it would not have had the. Uk reserved for it and or it did but. Uk Is only starting to become the preferred choice but the uk public would automatically assume it was. Co.uk
 
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The UK market is a lot more competitive than people expected. However, the .UK is still just a subdomain where most of the registrations are in .co.uk.

Regards...jmcc

They are but I have long only preferred the. Uk only I haven't bothered with the. Co.uk as it will eventually dwindle to nothing as. Uk Is good for organic seo just as

Us

Would be and or is Eg as a country etc for organic seo in Google
 
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Why did you even get these really odd names to even register ?

Well don't use the first word of your domain etc as it's a term used in the states

And as for the second domain lol

I could think of one or two websites to redirect it to lol
 
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OK here goes lol

I am from the uk etc

To understand the

.uk

Market

You have to forget domain names

And go way back in the uk to about 40 years ago to the era of the yuppie in the 80's awash with dough Eg money buying porsche etc in the uk you done OK if you bought a porsche or rolls Royce etc but in the uk back then there was a little white booklet that used to list personalised number plates by a company called

Elite registrations where a person could buy a personalised licence plate or as we say in the uk number plates etc so that people who had a few quid could pose and buy a number plate with their initials on it and a couple of numbers on it etc but a person even if they had quite a few quid could only buy a personalised number plate for their car within a certain format which had to consist of numbers and letters and they would pay a pretty penny for these personalised number plates etc but then a company called

registration transfers

Entered the personalised number plate market and the prices of these personalised number plates started to soar in value

Check out

Elite registrations

And

Reg transfers. Co.uk

And you'll see the prices these personalised number plates sell to the wealthy in the uk etc

Bear with me lol

Before the Internet people used to have to speed scan pages and pages of these personalised number plates trying to make words from letters and numbers using zeros for the letter o etc and 1's as the letter I etc etc

Which I thoroughly enjoyed finding these very desirable personalised number plates etc

But there was a problem lop

I could save money for toffee and couldn't afford to buy these personalised number plates in order to be able to profit from them etc and still can't today lol

But but one of these personalised number plate companies has also gone in to the domain name market

Eg

Elite registrations

The number plate company

Owns?

Intervention. Co.uk

A domain name reseller / registrar

But it appears to only sell

.Co.uk

And

.uk

Website addresses

But it's main number plate business has over 40 years of premium top dollar end users as does

reg transfers who also have some of the best potential buyers for. Uk website addresses

Isn't that right wizard lol

Wizard knows most of them and understands the market too

But when reg transfers eventually enter the domain name market

The prices of. Uk Website addresses will soar in value like the uk has never seen and achieve millions for some. Uk Website addresses purely down to the fact that these two companies have significant amount of wealthy end users as customers who trust these two companies and they have the dough to buy pretty much anything suggested to them. By these two companies

And when you understand both these markets and the potential uk end users for the. Uk Website address extension you'll understand just how important buying the most premium Website addresses in the. Uk Website address extension could prove very lucrative

And when the prices of very good
.uk Website addresses start to soar in value it will attract the big. Com dough investors from the states

It's just that the uk market currently is still digitally asleep but only until

Reg transfers

Enters the domain name market as a reseller and or registrar

But although I never made money on number plates in the uk

I learned my domain name skills from the big. Com investors in the states but have a very good understanding of the uk domain name market and have managed to build up a little portfolio of domain names for reg fee using 40 years database experience scamming pages of number plates manually extremely quickly and now the Internet is hee my experience at playing the fruit machines back in the day lol works well with domain names etc lol

But suffice to say

The domain name market in the uk is still digitally snoring at the moment but this week investors in the states are buying up the uk domain names because domain name investing in the states is understood but these. Uk domain names became available whilst the uk domain name market was still asleep but it won't be for long and when the uk domain name market wakes up and realises that the domain names they need are already bought the wealthy end users will start paying proper dollars for these premium. Uk domain names

But the best domain name auction for
.uk

And. Co.uk

Domain names

Is

Currently

Domainlore. Uk
 
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Wow, what happened to this thread?

Last day for drops. I'm locked and loaded. No firing early today. :pompous:

Good luck one and all.
 
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Godaddy just dropped Naturalbabyshower.uk for me; the co.uk version is a famous website in the UK.

Do you guys think I have a chance to sell it to them ? I'm a newb.
 
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Godaddy just dropped Naturalbabyshower.uk for me; the co.uk version is a famous website in the UK.

Do you guys think I have a chance to sell it to them ? I'm a newb.

No unless you want a DRS and it taken off you.

This domain has no value stop wasting your money !
 
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If anybody gets an awesome media creative related domain they would be looking to sell, let me know.
 
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lol I don't even do domaining but that is the worst plan I ever heard.
Godaddy just dropped Naturalbabyshower.uk for me; the co.uk version is a famous website in the UK.

Do you guys think I have a chance to sell it to them ? I'm a newb.
 
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If anybody gets an awesome media creative related domain they would be looking to sell, let me know.

I have a few what are you looking for and whats your budget ?
 
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@wizard What about these ?
cashout.uk
cryptolab.uk
dishy.uk
fitnessgym.uk
lawyerdirectory.uk
londonlawyer.uk
londonsolicitor.uk
medschool.uk
megayacht.uk
moneyorder.uk
mybody.uk
onlinetraders.uk
privatecoach.uk
 
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@wizard What about these ?
cashout.uk
cryptolab.uk
dishy.uk
fitnessgym.uk
lawyerdirectory.uk
londonlawyer.uk
londonsolicitor.uk
medschool.uk
megayacht.uk
moneyorder.uk
mybody.uk
onlinetraders.uk
privatecoach.uk

Nothing takes my fancy but best of luck if you don't sell them in a year drop them
 
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I have a few what are you looking for and whats your budget ?
Pm me with what you got and what you want and if you are open to neg and we can go from there :)
 
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Up until now I got:
PersonalCare
ReptileShop
GamingStore
HappyEnding (which I hope to happen today lol)
ForMen
ForGirls
EmergencyVet
CyclingShop

Out of about 1.5k domains that I was interested in (and were available after ROR expired), that was everything I managed to catch up until now.

However, I've improved my catching strategy masively for the last day and I'm confident that I can become a real pokemon master...oops I meant, I think I'll be able to catch some nice stuff.
 
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Up until now I got:
PersonalCare
ReptileShop
GamingStore
HappyEnding (which I hope to happen today lol)
ForMen
ForGirls
EmergencyVet
CyclingShop

Out of about 1.5k domains that I was interested in (and were available after ROR expired), that was everything I managed to catch up until now.

However, I've improved my catching strategy masively for the last day and I'm confident that I can become a real pokemon master...oops I meant, I think I'll be able to catch some nice stuff.

Your not catching you just getting whats left over which means no one else wanted them everything decent is getting taken by the nominet members inc myself only 2%

a few examples gamingstore not a term used in the UK would be gameshop ie
bicycleshop are better names you have to look a old sales and if you don't see them happening on the co.uk then you won't see any action on the .UK
 
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Only decent one I see is reptileshop.

If anybody gets an awesome media creative related domain they would be looking to sell, let me know.

Up until now I got:
PersonalCare
ReptileShop
GamingStore
HappyEnding (which I hope to happen today lol)
ForMen
ForGirls
EmergencyVet
CyclingShop

Out of about 1.5k domains that I was interested in (and were available after ROR expired), that was everything I managed to catch up until now.

However, I've improved my catching strategy masively for the last day and I'm confident that I can become a real pokemon master...oops I meant, I think I'll be able to catch some nice stuff.
 
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@wizard you mind sharing examples of what you were able to catch please ?
 
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nice. I wonder why some automatically goes through and others you have to wait.

I think it depends on the keywords being targeted. I was able to buy/register .Uk domains from June 30th I believe. I'm taking about buying them straight up not pre-registering.
 
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No unless you want a DRS and it taken off you.

This domain has no value stop wasting your money !

There are some good tips on

Nominet
 
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Do you mean the UK extension?

It should own both the. Co.uk And uk as it operates them both I think

But yes

It explains a bit about the uk market etc and different extensions

But the

.uk

Is the best well I think so each investor may have different options etc

I wouldn't bother buying anything other than

.uk

For uk market

But

.Co.uk

Would still sell and is the most popular at the moment

Although

.uk

Could quite easily overtake it

Some endusers would want both the. Co.uk And. uk tho
 
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