Whats better .co.uk or .uk?

[Tekk]

Whats better .co.uk or .uk?

 

[kite26]

.co.uk and you are safe. I was searching about this yesterday.

 

[Ralph2472]

You have to register the .co.uk before you can register the .uk

Regards

Ralph

 

[kite26]

You have to register the .co.uk before you can register the .uk

Regards

Ralph

Not only that, if you have .uk you make buyers confused because they may think that you missed the ''.co'' Avoid .uk.

 

[Miks]

You have to register the .co.uk before you can register the .uk

Regards

Ralph

That's not quite right!

You can choose to register either .co.uk, or .uk, but probably better to get both. Once the .co.uk (.org.uk, .me.uk) if they held the right for .uk been dropped, anyone can pick up .uk

Owners of .co.uk (.org.uk / .me.uk) which has been registered, before 10 of july 2014 (cut of date), has right held for they .uk domain at lest until 10 of july 2019 and no one else can get them, unless owner choose to sell the pair, each of .co.uk and .uk separate or drop domain..

 

[Miks]

This is where you can find everything you need to know about UK domains:

Nominet

 

[mwzd]

Eventually .UK, mostly if you follow Zipf's law, though I'd think given .co.uk's ascendancy in UK, you might be best served by getting both.

 

[Ralph2472]

Thanks Miks. I stand corrected.

Regards

Ralph.

 

[Claypere]

I believe its .co.uk

 

[jdab]

.co.uk has the history and longevity so it's pretty difficult to tell how .UK will fair, but UK domains are pretty cheap so you may as well pick up both.

 

[B&J]

The belief is that .CO.UK prevails right now, but as .UK will become more available in few years, the shorter version will take over.

 

[heartland]

You need to prove you have connection to UK, right?

 

[33S]

you can reg .co.uk if you're not based in the UK, with .uk as I remember it's not that simple

 

[Coldtrigger]

It's still unknown which will come out on top - at the minute, it's all about .co.uk but it's always better to have both because you could be left out in the rain if the .uk takes over and someone else owns it. For selling, it's always better to own both too and sell them together.

 

[33S]

It's still unknown which will come out on top - at the minute, it's all about .co.uk but it's always better to have both because you could be left out in the rain if the .uk takes over and someone else owns it. For selling, it's always better to own both too and sell them together.

Up the Irons!

 

[trap3]

you can reg .co.uk if you're not based in the UK, with .uk as I remember it's not that simple

Yes. You need to provide a UK address for the administrative contact for .uk .

 

[jdab]

Yes. You need to provide a UK address for the administrative contact for .uk .

That applies to all UK domains.

 

[davidthornton]

Yes. You need to provide a UK address for the administrative contact for .uk .

It's a U.K. "address for service" that must be provided for .uk second level domain names if the registrant address is located outside of the U.K. This is not a requirement for *.uk third level domain names regardless of where the registrant address is located.

 

[Domaintial]

Personally, I think the answer to "Whats better .co.uk or .uk?" is going to come down to how long a view you want to take.

The couk/uk cctld end user desirability is always going to be UK centric. If a business sells to UK consumers, or the service is specifically targeted at the UK. So if you're asking from the perspective of buying names to sell to end users, you limit your potential pool of prospects (just like with any cctld that google doesn't grant pseudo gtld status).

.UK hasn't really entered the minds of most in the UK, most people in the UK, who aren't domainers, I talk to about domains have no idea that theres anything other than .co.uk. Some even think that just having .uk is a typo (like kite26 said).

Long term IMO .uk will win out. Human nature is shorter (in this context) is better. The gov have been helping the case greatly, moving all governmental services, over to gov.uk, and pushing gov.uk on all marketing. This will help penetrate the consciousness of the UK public. It really //grinds my gears// that the likes of the BBC haven't followed suit yet. When they and other large sites do (ebay.uk rather than ebay.co.uk etc)... this will be the tipping point of public awareness. The ".co" bit of our extension adds nothing, and the majority are looking forward to the end of the "double dot" days.

Whenever we buy names on .co.uk, we always pick up the .uk. Just treat the two as different extensions (like com and net), which are for now "related".

This whole area is where there are lots and lots of opportunities coming our way in the domain space. More so than the new gtlds IMO. Theres also going to be huge scope for "getting in wrong" and getting hit with brand infringement or the UK equiv of UDR/cyber squatting.

There are lots of acquisition strategies we use around this whole .co.uk / .uk debate - if anyone's in London and wants to grab a coffee and chat about this stuff, ping me a message.

 

[platey]

You have to register the .co.uk before you can register the .uk

Regards

Ralph

i prefer just the .co.uk not a fan of the .uk