.UK - UK’s space in the online world

The .UK domain name presents a great opportunity for local and international companies wanting to represent their business in the United Kingdom. Local domain names give your company a professional image. Protecting your identity is crucial. That is true for your personal identity as well as your online identity. Safeguarding your assets is non-negotiable in today’s world. By registering your trademark in ccTLDs, you are taking one more step toward protecting your business. You have enough to worry about in business. Don’t let having your competitors acquire your name be one of them. By holding your trademark in ccTLDs, you will not have to concern yourself with attempting to acquire your name after someone else has registered it. We all know that highly coveted domains are those that are short or have common words. These types of domains are almost impossible to acquire in heavily populated domains like .COM or .NET. However, the chances of finding your domain in a ccTLD are exponentially better. Because most ccTLDs are continuing to grow, it is easier to register short or keyword-rich domains.

When a registrant address is not within the United Kingdom, a UK address for service must also be supplied (GB, GG, JE or IM). A PO Box addresses (or equivalent services) are not permitted.

Current zone is the ccTLD, or country code top-level domain, is a domain extension reserved by a country, sovereign state or territory. Country code top-level domains are typically denoted by only being two characters, like .US, .UK or .DE. There are several ccTLDs that are also used as generic brand domain extensions, or gccTLDs, including .CO, .US, .ME, .WS, .GE or .LY

Zone supports DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions). When the DNS was first implemented, it was not secured, and soon after being put into use, several vulnerabilities were discovered. As a result, a security system was developed in the form of extensions that could be added to the existing DNS protocols. DNSSEC is a security protocol that helps reduce chanses that visitors of your site will be directed to fake website. With DNSSEC, browsers and name servers can check whether the answers they receive are authentic. This means that there is a smaller chance that users can be led to ill-intentioned websites.