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.uk is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United Kingdom. The use of .uk rather than .gb for the top-level domain is due to its pre-existing use in the (now obsolete) JANET Name Registration Scheme in which the order of address components were reversed. As with other ccTLDs in the early days it was originally delegated to an individual by Jon Postel. The Naming Committee was organised as a mailing list to which all proposed names were circulated. By the mid-1990s the growth of the Internet, and particularly the advent of the World Wide Web was pushing requests for domain name registrations up to levels that were not manageable by a group of part-time voluntary managers. It is possible to directly register a domain name with Nominet UK but it is faster and cheaper to do it via a Nominet tag holder..

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Period Registration Renewal
.plc.uk
1 year$48.30kr211€28.30£24.90$51.20kr306$29.50R577.00 $37.60kr165€22.10£19.40$39.90kr239$23.00R450.00  
2 years$69.50kr304€40.80£35.90$73.80kr441$42.50R832.00 $58.90kr258€34.50£30.40$62.50kr374$36.00R705.00  
3 years$103.90kr455€60.90£53.60$110.30kr659$63.50R1243.00 $89.10kr390€52.30£46.00$94.70kr566$54.50R1067.00  
4 years$137.40kr602€80.60£70.90$145.90kr872$84.00R1644.00 $117.80kr516€69.10£60.70$125.00kr747$72.00R1409.00  
5 years$173.40kr759€101.70£89.40$184.10kr1100$106.00R2075.00 $148.00kr648€86.90£76.40$157.20kr939$90.50R1771.00  
6 years$206.90kr906€121.40£106.70$219.70kr1313$126.50R2476.00 $176.70kr773€103.60£91.10$187.60kr1121$108.00R2114.00  
7 years$242.10kr1060€142.00£124.90$257.00kr1536$148.00R2897.00 $206.90kr906€121.40£106.70$219.70kr1313$126.50R2476.00  
8 years$275.60kr1207€161.70£142.20$292.60kr1749$168.50R3298.00 $235.50kr1031€138.20£121.50$250.10kr1494$144.00R2819.00  
9 years$310.80kr1361€182.30£160.30$330.00kr1972$190.00R3719.00 $265.80kr1164€156.00£137.10$282.20kr1686$162.50R3181.00  
10 years$344.30kr1508€202.00£177.60$365.60kr2184$210.50R4120.00 $294.40kr1289€172.70£151.90$312.60kr1868$180.00R3523.00  
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UK Public Limited Companies only
Domain Registration Renewal
uk International Domain Name Registration .uk$48.30kr211€28.30£24.90$51.20kr306$29.50R577.00 $31.10kr136€18.20£16.00$33.00kr197$19.00R372.00
UK Public Limited Companies only
co.uk International Domain Name Registration .co.uk$40.90kr179€24.00£21.10$43.40kr259$25.00R489.00 $37.60kr165€22.10£19.40$39.90kr239$23.00R450.00
UK Public Limited Companies only
ltd.uk International Domain Name Registration .ltd.uk$48.30kr211€28.30£24.90$51.20kr306$29.50R577.00 $37.60kr165€22.10£19.40$39.90kr239$23.00R450.00
UK Public Limited Companies only
me.uk International Domain Name Registration .me.uk$48.30kr211€28.30£24.90$51.20kr306$29.50R577.00 $37.60kr165€22.10£19.40$39.90kr239$23.00R450.00
UK Public Limited Companies only
org.uk International Domain Name Registration .org.uk$48.30kr211€28.30£24.90$51.20kr306$29.50R577.00 $37.60kr165€22.10£19.40$39.90kr239$23.00R450.00
UK Public Limited Companies only
ac.uk International Domain Name Registration .ac.ukPrice on request Price on request
UK Public Limited Companies only
gov.uk International Domain Name Registration .gov.ukPrice on request Price on request
UK Public Limited Companies only
net.uk International Domain Name Registration .net.uk$35.20kr154€20.60£18.10$37.30kr223$21.50R421.00 $37.60kr165€22.10£19.40$39.90kr239$23.00R450.00
UK Public Limited Companies only
sch.uk International Domain Name Registration .sch.uk$27.00kr118€15.80£13.90$28.70kr171$16.50R323.00 $30.30kr132€17.80£15.60$32.10kr192$18.50R362.00
UK Public Limited Companies only

.plc.uk Domain Notes

Note: The registry may classify some domain names as premium domain names if so classfied they will command a higher price.

plc.uk domains include 3rd party fees and maintenance & during the registration period. If you wish to transfer your plc.uk domain away during your registration period you are free do do so without charge. We do not charge an administration fee.

.plc.uk Details

Registry: The registry is Nominet UK

Purpose: Entities connected with United Kingdom

Whois Information: for .plc.uk

Once your .plc.uk domain is registered

Once registered the .plc.uk domain is placed on our international server, provinding an under-construction page for your .plc.uk domain, for as long as required. (This enables a browser of your plc.uk domain to readily identify that it is registered).

We can also supply free of charge.

E-mail redirection.

Web redirection.

Whois Privacy.

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Free transfer away if required. We do not and will not charge release / transfer or administration fees for transferring domains to a different plc.uk domain name registrars. The domain name is yours and not ours, unlike many other companies, "We recognise that fact!"

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.plc.uk domain registration

Prices from as little as: $48.30kr211€28.30£24.90$51.20kr306$29.50R577.00 for 1 year.

.plc.uk Background Information

.uk is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United Kingdom. As of July 2008, it is the fifth most popular top-level domain worldwide (after .com, .cn, .de and .net), with over 7 million registrations.

The use of .uk rather than .gb for the top-level domain is due to its pre-existing use in the (now obsolete) JANET Name Registration Scheme in which the order of address components were reversed. .uk was made available in DNS to simplify the translation to and from these addresses. There were plans for eventual transition to .gb to accord with correct usage, but this never occurred; the use of .uk is now entrenched as it is impossible to register a .gb domain.

As with other ccTLDs in the early days it was originally delegated to an individual by Jon Postel. In time, it passed to Dr Willie Black at the UK Education and Research Networking Association. Originally, Domain requests were emailed, manually screened by and then forwarded to the UK Naming Committee before being processed by UKERNA. Membership of this Committee was restricted to a group of high-end ISPs who were part of a formal peering arrangement.

The Naming Committee was organised as a mailing list to which all proposed names were circulated. The members would consider the proposals under a ruleset that insisted that all domain names should be very close if not identical to a registered busiess name of the registrant. Members of the Naming Committee could object to any name, and if a small number of objections were received, the name was refused. In addition to the 'matching' requirement, there was also a restriction that any company should only have a single domain name.

By the mid-1990s the growth of the Internet, and particularly the advent of the World Wide Web was pushing requests for domain name registrations up to levels that were not manageable by a group of part-time voluntary managers. Oliver Smith of DemonInternet forced the issue by providing the committee with a series of automated tools, called the "automaton", which formalised and automated the naming process end to end. This allowed many more registrations to be processed far more reliably and rapidly, and inspired individuals such as Ivan Pope to explore more entrepreneurial approaches to registration.

It is possible to directly register a domain name with Nominet UK but it is faster and cheaper to do it via a Nominet tag holder.


Population

2007 estimate 60,975,000 (22nd) - 2001 census 58,789,194 - Density 246/km2 (48th) 637/sq mi

GDP

(PPP) 2007 estimate - Total $2.23 trillion (6th) - Per capita $36,570 (14th)

National Anthem

"God Save the Queen"

Area

Total 244,820 km2 (79th) 94,526 sq mi - Water (%) 1.34

International Dialling Code

44

Currency

Pound sterling (GBP)

Population type

(2001) 92.1% White, 4.0% South Asian, 2.0% Black, 1.2% Mixed Race, 0.80% East Asian and Other

Government

Parliamentary constitutional monarchy - Monarch Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister Gordon Brown MP LegislatureParliament - Upper House House of Lords - Lower House House of Commons Formation - Acts of Union 1707 1 May 1707 - Act of Union 1800 1 January 1801 - Anglo-Irish Treaty 12 April 1922 EU

Language

English Recognised regional languages Welsh, Irish, Ulster Scots, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish

Motto

: "Dieu et mon droit" (French) "God and my right"

Time Zone

GMT (UTC+0) - Summer (DST) BST (UTC+1)
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain, is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning Great Britain, the notheast part of Ireland, and many small islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. The largest island, Great Britain, is linked to France by the Channel Tunnel.

The United Kingdom is a unitary state consisting of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is governed by a parliamentary system with its seat of government in London, the capital, but with three devolved national administations in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland respectively. The UK is a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state. The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are Crown Dependencies and not part of the UK, but form a federacy with it. The UK has fourteen overseas territories, all remnats of the British Empire, which at its height encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface, the largest empire in history. British influence can continue to be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. Queen Elizabeth II remains the head of the Commonwealth of Nations and head of state of each of the Commonwealth realms.


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.plc.uk Assignment

How Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assign the .plc.uk domain. IANA is a department of ICANN, a non-profit private American corporation, they oversees IP address allocation, root zone management in the Do main Name System (DNS), and other Internet related symbols and numbers.

.plc.uk Assignment

Facts & Figures

Domain Facts & Figures : Billing Periods, Renewal details, delegation details and more. Everything you need to know about your United Kingdom .(plc.uk) domain.

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.plc.uk Renewals

You may renew your .plc.uk domain without logging into your control panel by using our quick and painfree renewal service, or even transfer it into bbonline to be renewed if necessary.

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Other British (plc.uk) Domains:

.uk, .co.uk, .ltd.uk, .me.uk, .org.uk, .plc.uk, .ac.uk, .gov.uk, .net.uk, .sch.uk,

Important:

Premium Domain Names

The registry may list some names as a premium domain name, if so this domain will be charged at a higher price than the one listed. We will contact you before completing your order if you order one of these names.

Reserved Names

The registry reserves some names for its own use, and may not mark them as registered. We may only discover this at the time of attempted registration.