50,000+ .UK registrations on the first day

[domainking131]

Nominet announced that over 50,000 .UK domain names have been registered within 24 hours of its release making it one of the fastest registered new gTLD on the record

 

[Jeff]

It has been a big success, and Nominet have done a fair bit of marketing:

www.welcometothe.uk
Three Strokes and You

 

[wot]

And the majority of them did not need to be registered until 2019!

Most registrars emailed .co.uk owners (names registered pre 29th October 2013) to urge them to register the .uk version WITHOUT giving them the option of not doing so! What's new!