.uk .UK domain name release

Psychedelic.us · Jul 2, 2019

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.

Taaewo1 · Jul 8, 2019

Well I already registered it. Finger crossed

Taaewo1 · Jul 8, 2019

wizard said:
I wouldn't register it that's what i think

I already registered it. Finger crossed. Hope it sells.

jamesosix · Jul 8, 2019

Taaewo1 said:
What do you guys think of talentconnect/uk. The US, com and net and co extensions have all been developed into a website

A single website for all of them, or separate companies? You may be opening yourself to TM issues if all owned by 1 company. You could be seen as domain squatting.

MadAboutDomains · Jul 8, 2019

jamesosix said:
A single website for all of them, or separate companies? You may be opening yourself to TM issues if all owned by 1 company. You could be seen as domain squatting.

No need to scare the guy too much.

I checked and 'talentconnect' was a registered US TM registered by the owners of the .COM, but it has since expired. They don't own the .NET or the .CO, they are different. Whilst issues are not outside of the realms of possibility, cause they may have established common law rights in it, but then they might not too. Just the existence of another (the .CO) as an established entity is enough to fend off a UDRP as long as you haven't approached them directly and don't infringe their registered or common law rights.

jamesosix · Jul 8, 2019

MadAboutDomains said:
No need to scare the guy too much.

I checked and 'talentconnect' was a registered US TM registered by the owners of the .COM, but it has since expired. They don't own the .NET or the .CO, they are different. Whilst issues are not outside of the realms of possibility, cause they may have established common law rights in it, but then they might not too. Just the existence of another (the .CO) as an established entity is enough to fend off a UDRP as long as you haven't approached them directly and don't infringe their registered or common law rights.

I'm not scaring anybody, I am being realistic and note the use of the word "may" in my OP..

jmcc · Jul 8, 2019

The problem with land rushes of this type in ccTLDs is that domainers with little or no experience of ccTLDs will use dotCOM rules to register what they think are valuable domain names. Some may be valuable over time. The .UK launch is far more complicated than an ordinary ccTLD land rush because the competition isn't from .COM and the gTLDs but rather from within the ccTLD itself.

What will happen with .UK, for the moment, is the same thing that happened with .COM and .CO. Non-domainers in the target market will automatically correct the .UK to .co.uk and the .UK site will, initially, lose traffic to the .co.uk version. (This is what happened with Overstock and o.co.)

There is another effect in strong ccTLDs that causes problems for domaining with generic keyword domains. That is the identification of the people in the ccTLD country with "their" ccTLD. The extension becomes less important than other keywords in a domain that put the domain name in context. Thus while pizza might be a good generic term, pizza+london might be more relevant to ordinary people. Outside the 30K or so truly generic and high value keywords, registration patterns in ccTLDs tend to get very complex. These patterns also exist in .COM in the registrations associated with each country but becaause .COM is a large TLD, it is hard for domainers to see these patterns in about 141 million registrations.

The big winners, initially, will be those in the UK market and who know the Nominet system inside out. Despite the low numbers of sales on some non-UK reporting sites, the .UK ccTLD market is quite active. After the initial burst of registrations, the most important pattern will emerge over November 2019 to February 2020. This is when the normal registration rates for .UK will kick in as the .UK emerges from the traditional land rush period (first six months or so of general availability). The best that .UK can hope for is that it is over 15% of .co.uk new registrations per month. This is because the momentum in the ccTLD will still be with .co.uk registrations for the immediate future. The burst of new registrations from the land rush is exceptional but it plays a small part in establishing the resale value of .UK domain names. It could take as long as five years before the .UK values stabilise. As an indication of what happens when a ccTLD is launched badly, there is an offer on .EU domain names on some registrars for 1 Euro for the first year (approximately and 85% discount) because the .EU ccTLD is losing registrations. Hopefully the .UK won't end up like the .EU.

Regards...jmcc

MadAboutDomains · Jul 8, 2019

MadAboutDomains said:
I felt like that, but it's not looking very promising is it with big corporations failing to even bother to reg them.

Nissan, Spar, Umbro to name a few. Also new brands like Voxi that could probably get away with the switch didn't get their name. Other random ones that I noticed are WD40, Honeywell and probably many more.

We can add unitedutilities.uk to that list.

crazydomain · Jul 9, 2019

pre order a first name. uk on gandi.net，but got refund.

MadAboutDomains · Jul 9, 2019

crazydomain said:
pre order a first name. uk on gandi.net，but got refund.

I got lukey (for a laugh), trev and isabel

Picorio · Jul 9, 2019

What’s going on Godaddy??? I just got an email about voice.uk that I registered and the email coming from Godaddy said they are issuing me a refund because I “canceled” the domain which is something I never did

silverswan · Jul 9, 2019

This whole .UK debacle is just one get rich quick scheme. Shameless.

Picorio said:
What’s going on Godaddy??? I just got an email about voice.uk that I registered and the email coming from Godaddy said they are issuing me a refund because I “canceled” the domain which is something I never did

jmcc · Jul 9, 2019

Picorio said:
What’s going on Godaddy??? I just got an email about voice.uk that I registered and the email coming from Godaddy said they are issuing me a refund because I “canceled” the domain which is something I never did

Looks like it was caught by Cyntra (Nominet tag/registrar). Not necessarily Godaddy. Just make sure that it is a genuine Godaddy e-mail.

Regards...jmcc

NonHipster · Jul 9, 2019

Picorio said:
@namesquare some of the ones I got so far:
Hotelnearme/uk buyup/uk libranews/uk
libragames/uk
etc.....

bloodymary.uk and budgeup.uk

Picorio · Jul 10, 2019

jmcc said:
Looks like it was caught by Cyntra (Nominet tag/registrar). Not necessarily Godaddy. Just make sure that it is a genuine Godaddy e-mail.

Regards...jmcc[/QUOTE

I see. I’m still waiting for them to reply. Thanks for the information

NonHipster · Jul 10, 2019

namesquare said:
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.

We have registered BloodyMary.uk and BudgeUp.uk

MadAboutDomains · Jul 10, 2019

NonHipster said:
We have registered BloodyMary.uk and BudgeUp.uk

Very nice, any plans for them? A cocktail website for bloodymary?

wizard · Jul 10, 2019

MadAboutDomains said:
Very nice, any plans for them? A cocktail website for bloodymary?

NonHipster · Jul 10, 2019

MadAboutDomains said:
Very nice, any plans for them? A cocktail website for bloodymary?

Thank you, no plans just yet.

platey · Jul 11, 2019

There are two

First popular

First name. uk

Being sold on

Domainlore. uk

Today well within 15-30 mins of this post the first one plus another one this afternoon

But domainlore have 3 first name. uk in their auction

Adam

Alan

And

Greg

All. uk

silverswan · Jul 11, 2019

Insure.uk will go for big £££

wizard · Jul 11, 2019

silverswan said:
Insure.uk will go for big £££

yes and Hastings will DRS it lol

platey · Jul 11, 2019

There are also

Two

Surname. uk

Domain names being sold at auction on

Domainlore. uk

Halliwell. uk

And

Miller. uk

There are also

Two

Scottish cities

In the domainlore auction

Plus a

County

In the uk

Plus a proper peach

insure. uk

Ideal to be used as a redirect

Plus

Cheese. uk

And

Tenant. Co.uk

jamesosix · Jul 11, 2019

i like film dotuk but cant afford the nearly 2k, but tbf that is still cheap.
I note the co.uk version redirects to ITV. Wonder if they would consider selling the co.uk haha

MadAboutDomains · Jul 11, 2019

wizard said:
yes and Hastings will DRS it lol

I sincerely hope that's not the case. Their trademark is a figurative one on "insure.co.uk - insurance reinvented". In UDRP they would really struggle, I hope that DRS isn't that loose

platey · Jul 11, 2019

jamesosix said:
i like film dotuk but cant afford the nearly 2k, but tbf that is still cheap.
I note the co.uk version redirects to ITV. Wonder if they would consider selling the co.uk haha

They won't be happy if someone else gets the. uk

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