{"id":1835,"date":"2019-06-19T10:24:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T08:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tld.sc\/en\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2019-06-20T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T07:51:04","slug":"giant-leap-in-uk-registrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/2019\/06\/giant-leap-in-uk-registrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant surge in .uk registrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tld.sc\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DOT.UK_PRIMARY_RGB-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Last week over 350.000 .uk domain names have (finally) been claimed by their rightful owner. Over the last 3 weeks combined, there were even well over one million .uk domain names registered. That&#8217;s much more than for example the 271.000 .uk names registered during the 52 weeks of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Almost exactly 5 years ago, direct registrations under .uk were launched. Prior to that time, only registrations under subdomains like .co.uk or .org.uk were possible. Owners of a .co.uk (or .org.uk, .net.uk,&#8230;) however had their name reserved for them free of charge for the first 5 years. Because of this, most stuck with their .co.uk domain name and didn&#8217;t bother registering (and starting to pay for) the same name under .uk.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Clearly people are becoming aware of the fact that the dead-line to claim the .uk name reserved for them is coming near. Anybody still holding a .uk-reservation, needs to register the domain name before June 25&#8217;th, or the name will become available to the general public during the start of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week over 350.000 .uk domain names have (finally) been claimed by their rightful owner. Over the last 3 weeks combined, there were even well over one million .uk domain names registered. That&#8217;s much more than for example the 271.000 .uk names registered during the 52 weeks of 2018. Almost exactly 5 years ago, direct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}