Britain Gets National .uk Web Address
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hypnosec (2231454) writes 'Starting today businesses and individuals in the UK will be able to register a new national web address (".uk") and drop their existing ".co.uk" or ".com" suffix in favour of a shorter and snappier domain name. The entire process along with the transition is being overseen by private yet not-for-profit organisation Nominet, which has already started notifying existing customers with a ".co.uk" domain of their chance to adopt a ".uk" domain. Nominet will reserve all ".uk" domain names, which already have a ".co.uk" counterparts, for the next five years offering registrants the chance to adopt the new domain and to keep cyber squatters at bay.'
Re:In other words (Score:4, Informative)
The only registrar I've found thus-far with the same price for
Gandi.net [gandi.net] don't appear to have
Re:What about Ukraine? (Score:4, Informative)
The UK was initially assigned .gb and it's still reserved for us. But we got to use .uk too, as it made the transition from JANET NRS [wikipedia.org] to DNS easier for our pre-existing academic network.