Should Acorn switch to .uk?

[Whois-Search]

Talking of popular sites that switch to .uk...

Should Acorn now switch to use www.acorndomains.uk ?

 

[Murray]

I think we should migrate invincible over to acorndomains.uk by himself as his own forum; there will probably be more posts per day than on here

 

[Rob_F]

Talking of popular sites that switch to .uk...

Should Acorn now switch to use www.acorndomains.uk ?

I think so.

- Rob

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[Admin]

I thought about this. What happens from an SEO point of view?

Admin

 

[ratboy]

manually redirect every page Admin, simple job for the weekend

 

[DaveP]

The url structure would stay the same surely, so you can just 301 redirect every acorndomains.co.uk/whatever to acorndomains.uk/whatever using htaccess for example.

 

[philiporchard]

Surely it's not worth the risk of losing all the pages that are ranking so well in Google.

Unless there's a huge upside to transferring, why bother changing.

Use Acorndomains.uk for something else related to your business Alan - run your own domain auction platform on here instead

 

[denchomsky]

Surely it's not worth the risk of losing all the pages that are ranking so well in Google.

Unless there's a huge upside to transferring, why bother changing.

Use Acorndomains.uk for something else related to your business Alan - run your own domain auction platform on here instead

Thats actually a good idea, if you are going to reg the .uk for any of your current sites, you might as well put it to good use.

 

[martin-s]

Use Acorndomains.uk for something else related to your business Alan - run your own domain auction platform on here instead

.uk swap shop?

 

[DaveP]

Thats actually a good idea, if you are going to reg the .uk for any of your current sites, you might as well put it to good use.

In my opinion it's a bad idea. Generally having two completely different websites operating on the .uk and .co.uk will just confuse people, surely?

 

[Whois-Search]

I thought about this. What happens from an SEO point of view?

Admin

See: http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/blog/search-engines-seo-and-changing-your-site’s-primary-domain

Then again that has an apostrophe in the permalink

 

[scooter]

In my opinion it's a bad idea. Generally having two completely different websites operating on the .uk and .co.uk will just confuse people, surely?

That there is THE defining statement and shows why it is a pure pigsty of a release.

Confusion reigns with owners who have the rights. Look what will happen in 5yrs time.

In fact, it is also happening with dropcatchers already. Who gets what?

Fun times ahead and most likely a few days in court for lots of companies.



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[scooter]

All we are going to do here is cover all the old ground that was covered before the release and the same conclusion comes back to why it was done the way it was. As a revenue generator, Nothing more.

My statement is an observation of why it should never have been released the way it was.

It should have been paired for life, or paired for the life of the co.uk and when the co.uk died, the co.uk should have gone forever, leaving only the UK back up for registration. A nice seemly transition to a better extension.

No confusion.
No chance of customer confusion. no chance of blatant passing off, no chance of holding existing business to potential ransom. None of it would exist but now it does.

By the way, I do love the new extension and i think it will be a big winner in the end but Nominet have opened up a can of worms for the reasons above. A can of worms that did not exist before Tuesday.




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[denchomsky]

In my opinion it's a bad idea. Generally having two completely different websites operating on the .uk and .co.uk will just confuse people, surely?

Well yeah having a site with completely different websites/content would be confusing but that is not what was suggested, but a closely related site with related content?

So if you own both one of them is going to remain completely redundant, other than redirecting one to the other, so just a cash cow for Nominet as if you own one you have to protect it with the other.

Could always use it for email I guess?

Any more suggestions?

 

[ChrisMM]

At the risk of going off topic, wouldn't if have been more prudent for Nominet to remove the ability to register new .co.uk following the launch of .uk?

Existing .co.uk owners would get the .uk for 5 years and could renew their existing .co.uk forever. But new co.uk registrations would not be possible.

Surely that would improve .uk adoption considerably and demonstrate to customers that Nominet aren't all about the money?

On topic: Does this website really rely on search engine traffic? I would imavine the majority of new members search for the brand or are referred directly.

If Admin relies on the SE traffic for adsense earnings or new member registrations (non brand terms). Them i'd be inclined to not rock the boat really. Seems little upside really at this stage in the .uk rollout.

Could always stick a blog on the .uk, highlight monthly domain sales exclusive to the forum. Get some links and history built up for the .uk which may be of benefit should he decide to 301 to the domain in the future.

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[Alien]

Why is the poll closed?

 

[murph]

Surely it's not worth the risk of losing all the pages that are ranking so well in Google. Unless there's a huge upside to transferring, why bother changing. Use Acorndomains.uk for something else related to your business Alan - run your own domain auction platform on here instead

This is the way I think about my own sites. Guess many others do too. Why rock the boat when you can't guarantee you'll ever get our rankings back to where they were!

 

[murph]

It should have been paired for life, or paired for the life of the co.uk and when the co.uk died, the co.uk should have gone forever, leaving only the UK back up for registration. A nice seemly transition to a better extension. No confusion. No chance of customer confusion. no chance of blatant passing off, no chance of holding existing business to potential ransom. None of it would exist but now it does.

I really wish this had been the reality for .uk

 

[scooter]

Surely that would improve .uk adoption considerably and demonstrate to customers that Nominet aren't all about the money?

This was suggested as was pairing for life but the bottom line is they do not make any extra revenue. It is all only about extra coffers.

What a masterstroke though. In reality it is Nominet that are now holding business to ransom as they now need to register their .uk equivalent.

Thumbs up for pure genius. Thumbs down as it serves zero purpose for UK business other than costing them more money.




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