It’s not true no one wants .uk domains – just look at all these Bulgarians who signed up to nab expired addresses. 'It earns money for freelancers and very small businesses in our rather poor country' says maker of catcher tool.
Hundreds of thousands of unwanted .uk domains are being dropped by their owners – and picked up by Europeans looking to profit from Blighty's registry system.
As we have previously noted, the controversial plan to start selling .uk domains, such as yourcompanyname.uk, resulted in thousands of Brits being pressured into owning web addresses they never wanted and never ordered.
There was no clear demand for second-level .uk domains, yet dot-uk operator Nominet went ahead anyway, seemingly because it wanted the additional revenue from the top-level domain. To placate its critics, it gave the owner of any .co.uk control of the same name under .uk for free for several years.
Well, that free period is over, and – surprise, surprise – people don’t want to own two domains for the same website and pay two lots of renewal fees.
read more (the register uk)
Hundreds of thousands of unwanted .uk domains are being dropped by their owners – and picked up by Europeans looking to profit from Blighty's registry system.
As we have previously noted, the controversial plan to start selling .uk domains, such as yourcompanyname.uk, resulted in thousands of Brits being pressured into owning web addresses they never wanted and never ordered.
There was no clear demand for second-level .uk domains, yet dot-uk operator Nominet went ahead anyway, seemingly because it wanted the additional revenue from the top-level domain. To placate its critics, it gave the owner of any .co.uk control of the same name under .uk for free for several years.
Well, that free period is over, and – surprise, surprise – people don’t want to own two domains for the same website and pay two lots of renewal fees.
read more (the register uk)
