Monday, June 16, 2014

Curious case of .UK domains.

Ever since the Nominet announced the release of .UK domain for public use. There was an unprecedented rush to claim these domains. Some were trying to protect their existing brand name and the others were trying to lay hand on anything and everything they can register.

The biggest problem though is that no one really knows how the registration works for this ccTLD. Domains were expected to be released on 10th June 2014. However, alot of the domains are still waiting to be registered. There is another catch. Domain owners who have already registered a .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .net.uk, .ltd.uk or .plc.uk. They have the right to claim the equivalent .UK domain by 10th June ..... 2019. Yes, that's correct. It is 2019.

There is one more thing. If a domain is registered by a company and later they fail to renew it. The domain can be registered by anyone. I don't understand why would Nominet keep the domain from being registered for 5 years and allow the domain to be publicly available if there is an unsuccessful renewal.

Don't really understand the point of all that.

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