.co.uk Domain Names
.co.uk domain names, at home in the UK
The address British customers have typed for four decades, administered by Nominet. For a firm trading in the UK, .co.uk is not an alternative to .com — it is the local default. Register from $10.99/yr, with the renewal figure shown before you pay.
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Why .co.uk?
.co.uk has been the commercial corner of the UK namespace since the earliest days of the .uk hierarchy, and Nominet — the UK registry — has administered the family since 1996. To a British buyer the ending reads as local by default: reachable in their time zone, subject to their consumer law, findable under UK rules. For locally scoped search queries it carries a genuine country signal a .com must earn by other means.
The Nominet world runs on friendlier plumbing than the gTLD one: transfers between registrars happen by changing the name's IPS tag rather than by auth code, typically completing the same day, and the registry withholds individuals' addresses from its public register. Two habits matter — keep registrant details accurate, since Nominet validates them and can suspend names over data that fails, and check the matching short .uk, which since 2019 is a fully separate registration anyone may take.
Good Fit
.co.uk works best for
- Businesses whose customers are mostly in the UK
- Local services, trades and professional practices
- UK arms of international brands trading locally
- The defensive sibling beside a .uk or .com registration
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Fluent in Nominet
IPS tags, registrant validation, the .uk family's quirks — handled daily here, and explained in plain English before you commit.
Transfers measured in hours
The IPS-tag system makes moving a .co.uk between registrars one of the quickest transfers anywhere — and we retag outbound names on request, same day.
The family checked together
.co.uk, .uk and .com searched in one query, so the defensive registrations happen while they are still routine.
Common Questions
Questions about .co.uk
How is transferring a .co.uk different from a .com?
Completely, and pleasantly: Nominet transfers work by the current registrar changing the name's IPS tag to the receiving registrar's, usually completing within hours — no auth code, no sixty-day lock, no gTLD-style confirmation dance. The transfer does not touch delegation, so the website and mail continue uninterrupted throughout.
If I own the .co.uk, do I automatically own the .uk?
No — they are separate registrations. Direct .uk names launched in 2014, and the rights that reserved each one for its matching .co.uk holder expired in June 2019; today whoever registers each name holds it independently. Check the short form of your name: if it is free, securing it is cheap insurance against a lookalike one dot away.
Will my details be public on a .co.uk?
Nominet's register shows less than the old gTLD WHOIS ever did: individuals who are not trading can have their address withheld, and the public record is limited by the registry's own policy. The details you file must still be accurate — Nominet validates registrant data and can suspend names over failures — so keep the record current when the business moves or renames.
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