The .UK revolution

Whois-Search · Oct 12, 2023

Jiblob said:
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.

Lots of errr speculation is also now happening in the second level .uk as well. This is Media Elite Holdings with 250,000 names on their tag.

Members like that are probably inflating the total number of DUM in the second level now 1.4 million. The third level is still 9.4 million but down from 9.6 million in January.

So I agree new businesses are finding .uk available to register like my local Chinese restaurant

if the SEO traffic parking companies haven’t got there first!

Andrey Insarov · Oct 18, 2023

Interesting thread. Will ask the team to consider adopting the concept.

dee · Oct 18, 2023

Whois-Search said:
Lots of errr speculation is also now happening in the second level .uk as well. This is Media Elite Holdings with 250,000 names on their tag.

Wait... what ? 250000 ....so a million plus a year in reg fees ? Thats nuts. Especially seeing some of the names there.

Thats a great tool by the way! Hadnt seen that before

Systreg · Oct 18, 2023

I see hundreds and often thousands dropped on a daily basis by the REGISTERMATRIXCH tag, I quickly scroll past everything on their tag, never seen such a pointless bunch of names and loads of typo names.

Whois-Search · Oct 18, 2023

Systreg said:
I see hundreds and often thousands dropped on a daily basis by the REGISTERMATRIXCH tag, I quickly scroll past everything on their tag, never seen such a pointless bunch of names and loads of typo names.

Yes they are tasting traffic on an industrial scale. They only drop the names after a year without any PPC revenue.

Makes you wonder if they have NXDOMAIN data. Or more likely it’s where the .uk is available but the .co.uk is taken in the zone files.

3gmedia · Oct 22, 2023

Just watched an ITV advert for a .uk

NinjaWarrior.uk

This was shown prominently throughout the ad.

boxfish · Oct 22, 2023

3gmedia said:
Just watched an ITV advert for a .uk

NinjaWarrior.uk

This was shown prominently throughout the ad.

Yes but they're not CHOOSING to use the .uk, it's their only option as the .co.uk is owned and used by someone else.

JMI · Oct 22, 2023

boxfish said:
Yes but they're not CHOOSING to use the .uk, it's their only option as the .co.uk is owned and used by someone else.

That's in your opinion. It's a seems perfectly logical unforced choice to me. If they hated .UK so much they could have reg'd ninjawarriortv.co.uk or similar.

boxfish · Oct 22, 2023

JMI said:
That's in your opinion. It's a seems perfectly logical unforced choice to me. If they hated .UK so much they could have reg'd ninjawarriortv.co.uk or similar.

That is not my opinion, that is fact.

cloud · Oct 22, 2023

boxfish said:
Yes but they're not CHOOSING to use the .uk, it's their only option as the .co.uk is owned and used by someone else.

They are purposefully advertising the .UK and redirecting it to a different .co.uk.

Nobody's forcing anyone to do anything. They have CHOSEN the short exact version as a .UK for their advert. I'm sure if they really wanted the .co.uk they could have had it. Only 12 year olds are watching.

Ben Thomas said:
Why on Earth have they done this? Weird.

They like how the .UK looks on their advert I reckon. Nice that they had the option of that instead of a non exact version IMHO

JMI · Oct 28, 2023

Ben Thomas said:
I'm not arguing it doesn't look good, I love .uk, you might be aware of this. I just think it is a little strange to drop the .co.uk.

Yes, we will probably see more and more .co.uk dropped as companies look to transition into the 22nd century.