One of the biggest complaints registrants of the .UK ccTLD voiced out often was the requirement of 2 year initial registrations and/or renewals of .UK domain names. It was impossible to simply register a domain name for 1 year, just like with any other gTLD (com, net or org) or most other ccTLD’s in the world. Nominet UK, the operator of the .uk domain name registry announced in November of 2011 that they will finally be removing the 2 year requirements and making single year registrations a reality at last come May 1st, 2012.

       The newly introduced single year and multi-year registration options offer a greater choice for registrants, who can now choose to secure their domain for the standard 1 year period, or an extended term of up-to 10 years. Nominet consulted with it’s members and the domain community to ensure their views on whether and how to bring in flexible registrations were taken into account. The consultation showed that the majority of the registrar community supported the new rules. Nominet has tiered pricing for domain registrations for members and registrars, pricing ranging from £3.50 per year to £2.50 per year for a 10 year renewal (exclusive VAT).

         After all said and done, once the stats became available on the Nominet registrations page at the end of May of 2012, the updated numbers showed that there wasn’t any major changes or increased demand in new registrations, which was surprising. A total of 175,060 new domains were registered, which is inline with other month’s. The .uk ccTLD has over 10.1 million domains registered currently. It is the 2nd largest ccTLD in the world, behind Germany’s .DE which has over 15 million domain registrations.

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Source from http://www.domainnamenews.com

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