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Nominet: Not Enough Support For Shorter Web Address

  • BBC, Wednesday, February 27, 2013 3:27 PM

The organisation that oversees all UK web addresses, has decided not to go ahead with an optional new service for sites ending with ".uk". Companies would have had the chance to take the address "name.uk" rather than "name.co.uk". It would have cost more to register but extra security features would have been provided to sites that opted to change. But a three-month consultation had revealed there was insufficient support for the idea, the body said.

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