.co.uk Domains
Register your .co.uk domain in seconds
British customers expect a British business to sit at this address, and Nominet has run it since 1985. Registration is instant, and it works best beside hosting a single-digit round trip from your visitors. Register from $10.99/yr — searched, priced and switched on inside a single visit.
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The Extension
Why .co.uk?
Commercially, .co.uk is the UK's default. Four decades of British business online have turned it into the address people type on instinct and trust on sight. Sell into the UK and there is a search benefit riding along with it, since Google reads country-code extensions as a geographic relevance signal on UK queries.
Nominet's registry registers you instantly, and our anycast DNS starts answering inside the first minute. London hosting is the natural partner. Send a UK visitor to a UK site running on UK infrastructure and the whole journey stays under 15 milliseconds, which no extension on its own can buy you. One more thing: the public WHOIS at Nominet withholds home addresses for non-trading individuals.
Good Fit
.co.uk works best for
- UK businesses of every size
- Companies selling primarily to British customers
- Local services, trades and professional practices
- UK-facing sites of international brands
What You Get
Included with every domain
Default British trust
UK customers expect this extension, and it settles the question 'is this a UK business?' before the page even loads.
Geotargeted for UK search
On UK queries, where most of your customers search, country-code relevance signals genuinely do help.
Pairs with London hosting
Put a UK domain on UK infrastructure and the entire visit stays inside a single-digit round trip.
Common Questions
Questions about .co.uk
Do I need to live in the UK to register .co.uk?
You don't. Registration is open worldwide, although Nominet wants a UK service address on the registrant record, and we deal with that as part of the process. Convention and geotargeting are where the UK signal comes from, not any strict residency rule.
Should I register .co.uk or .uk?
Both, if you can. They register separately even though the name is identical. .co.uk brings four decades of recognition, while .uk is shorter and reads more modern. Take the pair, redirect one, and you spend little while stopping a confusingly similar address turning up in someone else's hands.
Does a .co.uk help me rank in UK searches?
It counts as one genuine signal. Google geotargets country-code extensions to their own country, and that helps on UK queries. Content and speed are still the bigger levers by some distance, which is exactly why we put UK domains next to London hosting, where the round trip gets measured in single digits.
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