Nominet, the UK Domain Registrar announced that new .uk domain became available from the 10th June 2014.
The idea is that this is a new short fill domain to use instead of .co.uk for any UK based businesses.
Nominet actually reserved over 10 million of the new domain names, and if you have a .co.uk web address registered before the 10th June, then you will automatically have the rights to the .uk version until 10th June 2019.
At least it means no one can cyber squat your business name if you are trading under a .co.uk and you have plenty of time to think about it before registering the new domain.
I personally don't get it, what was wrong with .co.uk? Everyone recognises it and understands it, or doesn't it matter?
I can't see us moving over, but no doubt we will end up registering the .uk eventually just to protect it
If you want to see if there are any owner rights to a new .uk domain, you can check with the Rights Look Up Tool
Has anyone moved over to the new domain or have plans to move over? Have you spotted many .uk websites?