Popular websites that have switched to .uk

[Edwin]

What is the bug with chrome that affects .uk domains, please could someone explain for everyone who doesn't know.

Thanks

If you type in just a domain + .uk for example example.uk then Chrome treats it as a signal to do a Google search on "example.uk" instead of directing you to a website (and "example.uk" is unlikely to show up top of the results, at least for a while, so that's doubly bad)

You have to add a "www" in front of it for Chrome to accept it's a domain name.

In contrast, if you type "example.co.uk" into Chrome it will take you straight to the example.co.uk website.

 

[cm1975]

What is the bug with chrome that affects .uk domains, please could someone explain for everyone who doesn't know.

Thanks

If you type a .uk domain into the search, it goes straight to a Google search, rather than the website. You need the www.

Also, when you highlight text for a .co.uk address and right click in Chrome it says "Go to XXXX.co.uk", but when doing this for a .uk, it says "Search Google for XXXX.uk". This one isn't anything major, but does show that they're not completely recognising .uk as a domain.

 

[markb]

If you type in just a domain + .uk for example example.uk then Chrome treats it as a signal to do a Google search on "example.uk" instead of directing you to a website (and "example.uk" is unlikely to show up top of the results, at least for a while, so that's doubly bad)

You have to add a "www" in front of it for Chrome to accept it's a domain name.

In contrast, if you type "example.co.uk" into Chrome it will take you straight to the example.co.uk website.

Thanks for explaining that. Its probably a good idea to register your .uk domains on your most popular websites/domains and redirect them to the .co.uk.

I did this on my food.uk domain and when you type it in via chrome it does recognise it and redirect to the .co.uk domain.

 

[Murray]

I did this on my food.uk domain and when you type it in via chrome it does recognise it and redirect to the .co.uk domain.

Oh did you get that in the end? I thought nominet tried to reserve it for the government or what not.

 

[Edwin]

Oh did you get that in the end? I thought nominet tried to reserve it for the government or what not.

Old news

Nominet backed down from that plan for all but a tiny handful of domains - most of the "contentious" ones were instead reissued with modifications for the non-Government entities needing them.

See pp3-4 of this document: http://registrars.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/sldr_rules_140507_final_0.pdf

 

[markb]

Oh did you get that in the end? I thought nominet tried to reserve it for the government or what not.

They said they would let me know by the end of feb, they never got back to me, and I tried chasing them a few times but they never got back to me.

 

[Murray]

They said they would let me know by the end of feb, they never got back to me, and I tried chasing them a few times but they never got back to me.

You must be very pleased/relieved, I bet it helped they also tried to reserve independent.uk so you had their legal people fighting for generics not to be included.

 

[aidman]

You have to add a "www" in front of it for Chrome to accept it's a domain name.

Alternatively add a trailing forward slash... domain.uk/

 

[cm1975]

Another large company, but not in use yet ...

sony.uk

 

[Edwin]

Google.uk was registered today as well (not set up yet though)

 

[cm1975]

Google.uk was registered today as well (not set up yet though)

That's good to see!

Now that I check, they registered Chrome.uk the previous day (10th June)!

 

[cm1975]

Also just noticed Yahoo.uk

With the same service address as Google of MarkMonitor International Limited

EDIT ---

gap.uk is also using that address!

Is it taking a little longer for the overseas registrations to appear, as the service address needs verification?!? I checked some of these earlier and they didn't exist, but are dated 10th June

 

[retired_member34]

Google.uk was registered today as well (not set up yet though)

Let's hope they then "fix" Chrome so that you can type in a google.uk in the url bar and not get a search result.

 

[Edwin]

Jobs.uk is using the domain in a slightly different way as they've framed their main website - people still see jobs.uk in the URL bar if they type the domain in, but all links off the homepage go to pages on their "real" site. Of course, they can take their time and decide if/when to rebrand, but it's a decent enough idea for what is likely to be a high-typein generic given we're really only 48 hours in.

 

[Whois-Search]

The BBC just joined the party:

http://whois-search.com/whois/bbc.uk

 

[redbird]

The BBC just joined the party:

http://whois-search.com/whois/bbc.uk

That's an interesting Registrant type - Don't see many of them !

 

[diablo]

The BBC just joined the party:

http://whois-search.com/whois/bbc.uk

Still amazed that they did not cover the launch of .uk - even with the BBC's increasing reliance on churnalism for news stories they should have picked up on it.

 

[Edwin]

I have been monitoring a list of 100 super-prime generic .co.uk domains (owned by 100 different entities) and the situation looks like this:
11 .uk registered on 10 June 2014
5 .uk registered on 11 June 2014
2 .uk registered on 12 June 2014
Total: 18/100 matching .uk registered (as of a few minutes ago)

 

[Murray]

I have been monitoring a list of 100 super-prime generic .co.uk domains

Would be interested to see the list of 100? out of curiosity

 

[Edwin]

Would be interested to see the list of 100? out of curiosity

http://www.mydomainnames.co.uk/ukpositionpaper.pdf (pp 18-20)