Information for Registering .co.uk and .org.uk Domains

The co.uk and .org.uk Opportunity

More and more of your customers will soon be embarking on their own online global expansion. If the latest trends are any indication, the .uk namespace will likely be one of their first stops.

According to Nominet, 150,000 new .co.uk names are registered every month. To date, .co.uk and .org.uk names account for over 10 percent of the total number of domain names registered.

Offering .co.uk and org.uk as part of your portfolio is also a simple way to send a very powerful message about your business (even to those who do not currently want these domain names). It lets your customers know that you are anticipating and meeting all their domain name needs and makes them aware that they can count on you to continue to expand your selection of ccTLDs and, eventually, new gTLDs.

Rules for .uk domains

  1. Two letter names are not allowed -- they are reserved for ISO country codes.

  2. Two character names are allowed. i.e. 3x.co.uk where the format is not aa.foo.uk.

  3. All second level names of .uk are banned from being used as third level names. i.e. nhs.co.uk would be banned as it is a second level name.

  4. All top level domains are banned from being used as third level names. i.e. net.org.uk and org.co.uk are not allowed.

  5. All one character domain names (ie [a-z0-9].xxx.uk) are reserved for possible future sub-domain usage. The only one currently delegated is X.CO.UK. The owner shall still maintain it unless they volunteer to relinquish it.

  6. There shall be at least two nameservers for the domain (with addresses specified in the request) operating at the time the request is submitted. There is no restriction on the physical location or IP address of these nameservers.
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