What's the difference between .uk and .co.uk domain names?

by TomBuck

Posted: 10 years ago 8 replies

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What's the difference between .uk and .co.uk domain names?

.uk have loads free which kind of worries me in a way. Most domains are free with the .uk extension, which seems odd?

Is .uk new or just unpopular? Or does it have some sort of negitive effect???

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Frank Donovan

10 years ago

Tom, the .uk domain was just released in June this year, so it's still too early to guage the popularity. You might find that when you go to register a .uk it isn't actually available - existing owners of the equivalent .co.uk, .org.uk etc. domains have the first right to register the new extension.

More info here: UK Hub

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TomBuck

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Frank Donovan

Yeah makes sense. So can't order the .uk version

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Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by TomBuck

So can't order the .uk version

Not if someone else has the .co.uk version. (But if they have, you surely wouldn't want to use the .uk one anyway? That could much too easily turn out to be similar to a non-UK site trying to building a business on a domain-name of which the .com variant already belongs to someone else? All downside, in other words. ).
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- joomdev 10 years ago
  
  Dot com(.com) refers to a commercial website. dot co (.co) would be sites at specific countries. Say co.in (India) co.uk(United Kingdom) co.nz(New zealand). For eg. www. google.com opens as Google in India.
  
  If you are getting the dot com, you are getting the url that people can and will remember the best. The only remote exception may be charities and organisations that may use dot org, though i still think they need the dot com and use 301 to the dot org.
  
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10 years ago

Originally Posted by TomBuck

It doesn't have any negative effect and they both serve the same purpose. They are ccTLD domain extensions for the United Kingdom.

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TomBuck

10 years ago

Yeah its always to go to be true. Alright thanks for the answers, The problem was payment went through but then namecheap came back to me and said, actually you can't use these sites....