.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.

Rules and Restrictions

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

Second-level Domains

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".

Characters

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.

Country code top-level domain. Determined by "ISO 3166-1: Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions — Part 1: Country codes".

Second Level Domain

Second Level Domain