This is clearly a way to extort money from UK businesses.
You can't choose not to register the .co.uk, so now you'll have to register the .co.uk AND the .uk.
Then there's the mess and confusion of deciding who gets the .uk when there's a dispute.
And the fun and game when johnny user gets redirected to the dodgy knock-off version or a porn site placeholder instead of my-nice-widget-company because they got confused between the .co.uk and the .uk version of the name. Good job I didn't register my-nice-widget-co.co.uk too.
Clearly Nominet was drunk... resolve my downvotes!
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Go home Nominet, you're drunk.
Downvoted for this :-0
This is clearly a way to extort money from UK businesses. You can't choose not to register the .co.uk, so now you'll have to register the .co.uk AND the .uk.
Then there's the mess and confusion of deciding who gets the .uk when there's a dispute.
And the fun and game when johnny user gets redirected to the dodgy knock-off version or a porn site placeholder instead of my-nice-widget-company because they got confused between the .co.uk and the .uk version of the name. Good job I didn't register my-nice-widget-co.co.uk too.
Clearly Nominet was drunk... resolve my downvotes!