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Nominet UK

Nominet UK is the .uk domain registry. It is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. It has 'members' who act as shareholders. Anyone can become a member, but most members are ISPs who are also tagholders (see below).

Unlike the model in other countries, by and large customers wishing to register a domain do not approach Nominet directly, but register the domain via a 'tagholder'. Loosely, this is an organisation with a credit account who have registered a PGP key with Nominet.

Nominet manage the following domains:

• .co.uk
• .ltd.uk
• .me.uk
• .net.uk
• .nic.uk
• .org.uk
• .plc.uk
• .sch.uk

See also

• .uk

External link

• Nominet UK web site

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