.co.uk
.co.uk is the extension British customers recognise and trust, and you do not need to be in the UK to register one. Nominet accepts a postal address in any country. NamePo registers .co.uk at the same price it renews at, so the figure you pay in year one is the figure you pay in year two — and transfers in cost nothing.
We check.com,.co.uk,.ai,.io,.net, and.org in one search — same availability as our billing system.
We check.com,.co.uk,.ai,.io,.net, and.org in one search — same availability as our billing system.
This is the most common assumption about .co.uk, and it is wrong. Nominet, the registry that operates .uk and its second-level extensions, accepts a registrant address in any country. There is no residency test, no company-registration requirement, and no local-presence service to buy. A business in Dubai, Toronto, Madrid or Karachi can register and hold a .co.uk exactly as a business in Manchester can. What .co.uk gives you is recognition: it signals to a British audience that you are addressing the UK market, which is why overseas companies selling into the UK routinely register one alongside their primary domain.
The .co.uk renewal price matches the registration price. That is worth stating plainly because it is not the norm — many registrars advertise a low first-year figure and reset to a considerably higher rate at renewal. Both numbers appear on this page and again in your cart before payment. Transfers into NamePo are free. Registration terms of one to ten years are available; renewal terms of one to nine years.
Registration (first year)
$10.49
Renewal (per year)
$10.49
Prices from live catalogue
Both are available to anyone, and neither has priority over the other. Until June 2019, holders of a .co.uk had a reserved right to claim the matching shorter .uk name; that rights-of-registration period ended on 25 June 2019, and unclaimed .uk names were released for general registration. Today the choice is practical rather than procedural. .co.uk remains the more established and more widely recognised form among British consumers, while .uk is shorter and reads as more modern. Businesses that care about both typically register both and redirect one to the other.
Every .co.uk at NamePo includes full DNS management, WHOIS privacy where you choose to enable it, registrar lock, optional auto-renewal you can switch off at any time, and email forwarding — in the same account as your hosting, so pointing a .co.uk at a NamePo plan takes one step rather than a cross-provider DNS exercise.
.co.uk transfers do not work the way generic extensions do. There is no EPP authorisation code in the traditional sense — Nominet transfers are completed by changing the domain's registrar tag, historically known as the IPS tag, and the registry has been standardising this process. There is also one difference worth knowing in advance: transferring a .co.uk does not automatically add a year to the registration term, as it does with .com and other gTLDs. Your existing expiry date carries across unchanged, and you can renew separately for one to ten years whenever you choose. Transfers into NamePo are free.
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