UK Domain Names
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UK Domain Names
The United Kingdom has one of the most established and trusted domain ecosystems in the world. Managed by Nominet, the official .uk registry, British domain extensions carry immediate credibility with consumers and businesses alike. Whether you choose the classic .co.uk or the shorter .uk, a British domain signals that your organisation is rooted in the UK market.
From sole traders to national enterprises, UK domains are the foundation of a professional British web presence. They perform strongly in Google.co.uk search results, helping local customers find you more easily. Nominet's infrastructure gives reliable DNS resolution and strong domain security; under Nominet's consent-based rules, the public WHOIS does not display a UK individual registrant's name or address by default, at no charge.
At 365i, we keep UK domain registration simple. Choose from .co.uk for commercial use, .org.uk for organisations and charities, .me.uk for personal sites, or the modern .uk extension for a cleaner, shorter address. All registrations include free DNS management and email forwarding as standard.
Which UK extension to buy: .co.uk, .uk, .org.uk, .scot or .london
For most UK businesses this ends in one line. Take the .co.uk, and if the matching .uk is free take that too and point it at the same site. It is the cheapest option here, it is what a British customer assumes when you read an address aloud, and Google treats a country-code extension as a signal that a site is meant for one country.
The .co.uk and .uk split confuses people more than it should. Nominet runs both and the price is identical. The history is what matters: when .uk opened at the second level in June 2014, existing third-level holders got five years to claim the matching short name, and that right expired on 25 June 2019. Unclaimed names then went to the open market, so an established .co.uk no longer has a .uk waiting behind it.
Two Nominet namespaces get called restricted and only one of them is. .org.uk carries a charter aimed at not-for-profits, but Nominet lists it as open and says it does not vet applications against that charter, nor act on registrations that ignore it. .me.uk is the reverse: its rules require the registrant to be a natural person and to stay one, so a limited company cannot hold one or sit behind somebody who does.
What the regional extensions ask for, and what they cost
.london is the only one here with a hard eligibility test, wanting an address in the City or one of the 32 London boroughs, or a good-faith declaration of an interest in London. dotScot accepts an affinity with Scotland from anywhere in the world, and Nominet sets no local presence test at all on .cymru or .wales. Price is where these bite. A domain is a bill every year for as long as you trade, and .gg and .je sit near £77, close to eight .co.uk renewals, for a Channel Islands reading most customers never notice.
What we would suggest
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A UK business trading under its own name
.co.ukIt is the extension a British customer assumes, so you spend nothing explaining it, and Google reads a country-code extension as a signal the site is meant for the UK. At the lowest price in this category it is also the one you can afford to hold defensively alongside something else.
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A short brand name whose .co.uk is taken
.ukIt is the same registry and the same price for one label less, and a lot of these reached the open market in 2019 when the five-year claim period on them closed. Of everything on this page it is the only alternative that costs a UK business nothing in recognition.
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A charity, sports club or community group
.org.ukBritish donors and members read .org.uk as not-for-profit before they read a word of the page, and Nominet's charter says the namespace is intended for exactly that. Nothing is policed, so treat the signal as a strong convention rather than a promise.
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A freelancer's own CV or portfolio site
.me.ukNominet restricts the namespace to natural persons, which makes it one of the few extensions where the address itself says a person owns this, not a company. The same rule is the catch, because you cannot move it into a limited company later on.
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A trade or shop serving London only
.londonThe registry requires a London address or a declared London interest, so the extension carries a claim a competitor in Leeds cannot make. Worth the money when your catchment really does stop at the boroughs, hard to defend when it does not.
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A Scottish-culture project or diaspora site
.scotdotScot accepts an affinity with Scotland from anywhere on earth, so a Scottish-interest site run from London or Toronto qualifies on the registry's own terms. That reach is the point of it. A shop trading only in Glasgow gets more from a .co.uk.
Available Extensions
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Mistakes we see with UK domains
Worth reading before you register, because most of these cost money to undo.
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Assuming you can choose your own .ltd.uk name. Nominet derives it from your registered company name using a published set of steps, allows one per company, and can cancel or transfer it if the company changes name or is dissolved.
Do this insteadRun your exact Companies House name through those steps before you order, and be ready to give the company registration number and prove incorporation. If you trade under a name that differs from the one on the register, buy the .co.uk.
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Registering a .me.uk in a company name. The registrant has to be a natural person and stay one, and cannot be recorded as agent or trustee for anything that is not, so Nominet can reverse the registration or transfer at any point.
Do this insteadRegister it in your own name if the site really is a personal one. If it will ever become a company asset or get sold with the business, that is a .co.uk from the start.
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Believing the short .uk matching your .co.uk is still reserved for you. That five-year right of registration ended at the end of June 2019, and every name nobody claimed was released to the general public.
Do this insteadCheck availability today rather than planning around it. If it has gone, stop designing for it. If it is free, add it at the same price you pay for the .co.uk and close the question.
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Treating .uk.com, .uk.net or .gb.net as UK extensions. They are names sold beneath one ordinary .com or .net registration held by CentralNic, not Nominet namespaces, and they cost roughly three times a .co.uk every year.
Do this insteadIf you want a British address, buy one Nominet actually operates. Keep these for the narrow case where the exact wording matters more than the extension and every Nominet namespace is already gone.
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Ordering signage or business cards the moment a .im goes through. Isle of Man applications containing words tied to regulated activity on the island are referred for approval, and the island's government can withdraw a name within two working days of the application.
Do this insteadWait until the domain is active and resolving before anything reaches a printer. The registration fee on a withdrawn name is refunded, the print run is not. Note too that the shorter .im costs less with us than the older .co.im and .org.im sitting under it.
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Buying the .scot, .london or .cymru and leaving the matching .co.uk on the shelf. The regional extension does your branding, but the .co.uk is what half your customers will type anyway, and somebody else can register it.
Do this insteadTake the .co.uk first and redirect it, then advertise whichever address suits the audience. Two registrations at these prices cost less each year than one .gg.
Included with Every UK Domains Registration
DNS Management
Full DNS zone editor to manage A, CNAME, MX, TXT, and all record types.
Email Forwarding
Set up professional email addresses and forward to any inbox.
Auto-Renewal
Never lose your domain with automatic renewal protection.
Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
UK Domains FAQ
Both are managed by Nominet and serve the UK market. The .co.uk extension is the traditional choice for businesses, whilst .uk is a shorter, more modern alternative launched in 2014. Functionally they are identical, the choice comes down to personal preference and availability.
Yes. There are no residency or nationality requirements for registering .co.uk or .uk domains. Anyone in the world can register them, though they are most commonly used by UK-based businesses and individuals.
Absolutely. Google treats .co.uk and .uk domains as a strong geographic signal for the United Kingdom. This means your website is more likely to appear in search results for users in the UK, giving you a natural advantage in local rankings.
Under Nominet's consent-based rules, the public WHOIS does not display a registrant's name or address unless the registrant consents to display. UK individual registrants are not displayed by default, at no charge. Business registrants have their organisation name and address displayed as standard under Nominet's policy.
UK domain registrations are typically processed instantly. Once payment is confirmed, your domain is live and ready to configure within minutes through your 365i control panel.
Yes. Nominet requires every .ltd.uk registrant to be an incorporated company listed on the Companies House index of company and corporate names, and entitled to use Limited, Ltd, Cyfyngedig or Cyf in its corporate name. The domain has to be derived from your official company name using Nominet's published steps, which drop the company suffix, remove punctuation and allow a leading The to be removed, so The Kettering Bakery Limited becomes ketteringbakery.ltd.uk and nothing else. One per company, the registration number is required, and you must be able to prove incorporation.
Because the registry charges far more for it. Island Networks, which runs .gg and .je for the Channel Islands, publishes a direct registration fee of £49 a year before any registrar adds a penny, while Nominet prices its UK namespaces at the other end of the scale. Demand did the rest: .gg reads as good game to the gaming and esports world, so the short names went years ago. Anyone may register one, with no Guernsey residency test, but that price difference lands every single year you keep the name.
No, and the difference is technical rather than cosmetic. .uk.com is not run by Nominet and is not a country-code extension at all. It is a name sold beneath a single ordinary .com registration held by CentralNic, so your address sits below uk.com in the same way blog.example.com sits below example.com. That costs you in two places. The UK signal Google reads from .co.uk and .uk does not apply to a .com subdomain, and the annual price is around three times what a .co.uk costs.
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