.uk How Many have you got?

Brassneck · Sep 5, 2014

foz said:
Did 1 for type-in comparison (August 2014).

the .co.uk 9,299
the .uk 725

What sort of domain gets that typein traffic these days? Very impressive.

AssetDomains · Sep 5, 2014

Sean said:
I think your position within Google is a infinitely more important than your domain extension these days.

I agree with this and don't believe the .uk will suffer in any way in terms of google it might even get a tiny boost being a shorter overall domain who knows.

Sean said:
Personally, I wouldn't worry about things until you've got some hard evidence to suggest that your suffering because you're using the .uk.

This will be the first time of launching a site that will potentially benefit from offline advertising / promotion I suppose there's always the option to use the .co.uk / .com in any print advertising as they are redirected but that type of mixed messaging might be even worse.

diablo · Sep 5, 2014

Until large numbers of companies start using .uk, it is difficult to see what the future holds, but I'm inclined to agree with Sean - I think .uk will ultimately be the number one choice for business.

Nominet's failure to alert even rights holders of the existence of .uk makes it all the more difficult for it to gain traction now, however.

Retired_Member38 · Sep 5, 2014

diablo said:
Until large numbers of companies start using .uk, it is difficult to see what the future holds, but I'm inclined to agree with Sean - I think .uk will ultimately be the number one choice for business.

Nominet's failure to alert even rights holders of the existence of .uk makes it all the more difficult for it to gain traction now, however.

I'm launching 2 new 'big' projects currently. We own the .co.uk and .uk for both. We've launched one on .co.uk, one on .uk

Its annoying as you just don't know which way to go and its inevitable I've made the wrong choice on one of those :lol:

If I had the option I'd have launched them both on the .com instead. Here it just wasn't possible.

I doubt I'll be launching any new projects soon but if I do I'll definitely be going for a .com if I can get it. In a perfect world the phrase you're using would be a british only phrase, like "mates" or something. Or even better a british only spelling, like "optimisation". As either of those stops the inevitable massive price inflation because its an american .com. Its effectively got to be priced as if it were a .co.uk

diablo · Sep 5, 2014

Monkey said:
I'm launching 2 new 'big' projects currently. We own the .co.uk and .uk for both. We've launched one on .co.uk, one on .uk

Its annoying as you just don't know which way to go and its inevitable I've made the wrong choice on one of those :lol:

Be interesting to hear how both fair 6-12 months down the road.

Ever the optimist, it could be both end up success stories.

spiderspider · Sep 5, 2014

This thread really needs a poll on it.

Me, Zero.

Retired_Member38 · Sep 5, 2014

diablo said:
Be interesting to hear how both fair 6-12 months down the road.

Ever the optimist, it could be both end up success stories.

Both are in completely different niches with wildly different promotional options available to them. I'm also going to put far more budget into the .co.uk project than the other. So unfortunately even 12 months from now the success or failure of either won't tell us much

mally · Sep 5, 2014

denchomsky · Sep 5, 2014

My site needed a re-design so I re-launched it on .uk

I think the brand sounds better with just .uk tekkie.uk tekkie.co.uk ?

I have 301'd the .co.uk remembering to do http://www. And plain http://

I can't see any negatives from doing it that way, I am covered if .uk becomes the preference and if not the .co.uk redirects.

denchomsky · Sep 5, 2014

duplicate

stellar73 · Sep 5, 2014

8 at the mo - all hand regges of co.uk /.uk pairs

Not too concerned at the slow rate of uptake at the moment as still very early days

mat · Sep 5, 2014

0, because you have 5 years to register them

Alien · Sep 5, 2014

SF · Sep 5, 2014

spiderspider said:
This thread really needs a poll on it.

Me, Zero.

Done mate!

cm1975 · Sep 6, 2014

I'm surprised by people trying to sell me their co.uk domains, when they haven't regged the corresponding .uk domain. It's good to see I'm not the only person/mug that has been "forced" to reg both.