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.uk

ccTLD
Type ccTLD
Region EUR
Country
  • United Kingdom
Implemented July 24, 1985
Registry Nominet UK
Websites https://nominet.uk/

.uk is the ccTLD for the United Kingdom. It is managed by Nominet UK.[1]

Rules and Restrictions[edit | edit source]

Any individual or legal person can register under a .uk domain.[2]

Second-level Domains[edit | edit source]

The following second-level domains are available.

  • .co.uk: for commercial entities and purposes;
  • .ltd.uk: for private limited companies;
  • .me.uk: for personal names;
  • .net.uk: for Internet Service Providers' infrastructure;
  • .org.uk: for not-for-profit entities;
  • .plc.uk: for public limited companies;
  • .nic.uk: Network use only (restricted);
  • .sch.uk: for schools (restricted).

Some SLDs are administered by third-party registrars as trustees:

  • .ac.uk: for higher and further education and research institutions;
  • .gov.uk: for national, regional, and local government bodies and agencies;
  • .mod.uk and .mil.uk: for military and related purposes;
  • .nhs.uk: for the National Health Service;
  • .police.uk: for Police forces.

For policy reasons, Characters corresponding to an existing second-level domain in .uk shall not be permitted as a Third Level Domain within ".co.uk", ".me.uk", ".org.uk" and ".net.uk".

For a combination of policy and continuing technical reasons, the Characters "com" and "uk" shall not be permitted as an SLD or a Third Level Domain within ".co.uk", ."me.uk", ".org.uk" or ".net.uk".[2]

Characters[edit | edit source]

The Domain Name may only contain the following thirty-seven characters or a combination thereof:

  • the twenty-six unaccented Roman letters (i.e. a-z inclusive);
  • the ten western digits (i.e. 0-9 inclusive); and
  • hyphens. The first or last Characters of a Third Level Domain may not be a hyphen.

Nominet does not offer Internationalised Domain Names and so domain names that start with the characters "xn--" (i.e. "xn" followed by two dashes) may not be registered.[2]

References[edit | edit source]

... more about ".uk"
Date implementedStores the date that an object was implemented, normalized to the "Month DD, YYYY" format.
July 24, 1985 +
Has ICANN regionAssociates an object with an ICANN-determined Geographic Region.
Has TLD typeAssociates a Top-Level Domain with its primary type (gTLD or ccTLD).
Has countryAssociates a page with a country. Territory names are extracted from ISO 3166, "Country Codes".
Has entity typeSpecifies the primary classification or fundamental type of the page's subject (e.g., Event, Organization, Person).
TLD +
Has registry operatorAssociates an object with a registry operator.