Who are Nominet UK?

Who are Nominet UK?

By Clare Lawrence 29th September 2003

Clare is the CEO of Discount Domains Ltd a leading UK Domain name registration service.

Nominet UK is the Registry for all domain names ending in .uk. Nominet began registering Domain Names on the 1st August 1996 and is now officially recognised by the UK Government as the manager of the .uk TLD.

The members of Nominet, Domain name registrars such as Discount Domains Ltd are the owners of Nominet and participate in the running of the UK registry.

Nominet do not proactively sell domain name registrations, but provide neutral advice on registering and maintaining domain names.

Nominet encourage all stakeholders to get involved in .uk policy development and you can find out more about this through the work of our Policy Advisory Board.

Nominet also operates a Dispute Resolution Service that attempts to resolve domain name disputes.

Nominet take the privacy of the domain name registrant very seriously and have taken to court a number of companies who have attempted to mine the Nominet database.