The .UK revolution

[cloud]

Don't understand why they would let the old High ranker just drop though without using it as juice for the new one. Still..as you say...good for uk

Must be lack of knowledge about the worth of an authoritative domain.

 

[Kaleido]

I spotted this banner at the weekend. The domain epitomises the superior suitability and versatility of the .uk extension. Due to the executive agency status of Forestry England and the nature of what it does, the name wouldn't sit right on a .co.uk or .org.uk so ForestryEngland.uk is perfect.

 

[JMI]

maploc.uk

 

[Muller2]

Just rediected to Netflix... am I missing something?

 

[JMI]

Just rediected to Netflix... am I missing something?

Just that they used that for shut up and dance

 

[lazarus]

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Ordnance Survey advert. Seen today on TV showing os.uk
It still redirects to the older ordnancesurvey.co.uk. But interesting that they have chosen to start using .uk in their new marketing campaingns.

 

[cloud]

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Ordnance Survey advert today on TV showing os.uk
It still redirects to the older ordnancesurvey.co.uk. But interesting that they have chosen to start using .uk in their new marketing campaingns.

Brilliant. The tide is turnin'

Looks like the .co.uk has redirected to the .UK since at least 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170128125831/http://os.co.uk/

 

[boxfish]

Ordnance Survey advert today on TV showing os.uk
It still redirects to the older ordnancesurvey.co.uk. But interesting that they have chosen to start using .uk in their new marketing campaingns.

Isn’t one of their board members also on the board of Nominet. I remember Edwin saying years ago that someone who was part of OS and Nominet was very unhappy he had maps.co.uk and possibly (I may be remembering wrong) tried to scupper him having access to maps.uk in the .uk release.

 

[JMI]

 

[lazarus]

I saw this the other day.

It looks like Cinnabon moved their UK website from Cinnabon.co.uk (Web Archive) to Cinnabon.uk Then... dropped the.co.uk

 

[webber]

Then... dropped the .co.uk

That's not very smart...

 

[lazarus]

That's not very smart..

Yeah... I would have kept the .co.uk and redirect it to the new .uk

 

[JMI]

I used to think like that but its very 2005 domainer in this case. The ".co.uk" just looks so pants and out of date on advertising now. That's a lovely drs squatting case waiting to happen at cinnabon.co.uk - even have food ads to match!

 

[dee]

dropped the.co.uk

well thats a facepalm

 

[dee]

Ordnance Survey advert. Seen today on TV showing os.uk
It still redirects to the older ordnancesurvey.co.uk. But interesting that they have chosen to start using .uk in their new marketing campaingns.

I guess this must be the start of whichever design agencies these big companies use starting to catch on to the shorter punchier version

 

[Kaleido]

I spotted this the other day. I'm beginning to notice small businesses opting for the .uk too. The .co.uk forwards to the .uk so they're smarter than Cinnabon

 

[DesD]

I spotted this the other day. I'm beginning to notice small businesses opting for the .uk too. The .co.uk forwards to the .uk so they're smarter than Cinnabon

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In fairness, that gent probably just ran out of van…

 

[webber]

Came across Texel.uk and their well executed switch from .co.uk to .uk – the opposite of Cinnabon.
We could say they had... big balls to move to .uk

 

[Whois-Search]

Isn’t one of their board members also on the board of Nominet. I remember Edwin saying years ago that someone who was part of OS and Nominet was very unhappy he had maps.co.uk and possibly (I may be remembering wrong) tried to scupper him having access to maps.uk in the .uk release.

Yes Piers White was on the board of Nominet and Ordnance Survey at the same time in 2015. I can even remember an AGM held at their office once.

Ordnance Survey got OS.co.uk during the 2011 two letter sunrise and were used as an example to obtain rights to OS.uk. There is an FOI request about it here.

Still looks good on the tele today…

 

[cloud]

I'm beginning to think that a lot of non-domainers are realising that the .UK of their desired string is freely available and the .CO.UK isn't and they're snapping it up and rolling with it.

Lots of squatting on .co.uk and lots of real website being built on .uk. On my travels I'm seeing a marked uptick in the number of .uk names I see.

Nice to see - but we're not exactly at an inflection point............... yet.