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Nominet: .UK Hits 10 Million Domain Names

March 15, 2012 by Michael Berkens

According to the BBC, .Uk just hit the 10 million domain mark.

The 10th million domain name is  swarvemagazine.co.uk which was registered by Steven Northam for a photography-based publication.

Nominet who operates the .Uk registry, “described the news as a “mega-milestone”.

“It took charge of the top-level domain name in 1996 when there were 26,000 .uk sites.”

Nominet’s chief executive, Lesley Cowley, is quoted in the article saying that the .uk registrations are growing at 10% for the past couple of years,” with a renewal rate of around 70%

.uk is the world’s second-most popular country code.

 

Filed Under: ccTLD's

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Puranjay says

    March 15, 2012 at 7:56 pm

    The report claims that there are 10M .uk domain registrations, not .co.uk. Remember that this number would also include .org.uk, .net.uk, etc. domains

  2. Richy says

    March 15, 2012 at 8:07 pm

    Its a great milestone for Nominet who in the main do a good job.

    @Puranjay yes you are right but I would guess that .co.uk registrations account for a very high proportion of the 10 million domain names registered

  3. Alistair says

    March 15, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    Probably along the lines of 90% of .uk registrations will be .co.uk. No matter what to go from 26,000 registrations to 10,000,000 in that space of time is good going. Especially when you think that over 50% of uk SMEs do not have a website so still plenty of room for growth.

  4. John McCormac says

    March 16, 2012 at 2:16 am

    It is an amazing achievement.

    This is the kind of thing that will influence .com values in some markets. As the ccTLDs grow, the .com TLD will shift to being a second choice or legacy TLD in those markets however .com is still unbeatable as the global TLD. The 10 million .uk domains puts the task of the new gTLDs into perspective – this, combined with .com TLD is what they are facing in countries like the UK.

  5. Back in the real World says

    March 16, 2012 at 8:57 am

    As BS would say:

    The 10 millionth domain was prabably AnalHorsePorn.org.uk but that wouldnt have been such a good story.

  6. www.tl says

    March 17, 2012 at 6:08 am

    Congrats to Nominet, quite a milestone! 🙂


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