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.org.uk domain registration

The British extension for associations and non-profit bodies: org under uk, telling donors and volunteers there your aim is serving people, and open to anyone, person or body, from any country.

Score card

.org.uk in six cells

Our score out of five, as we see it when we help a customer choose.

Trust
5 out of 5
Easy to remember
4 out of 5
Global reach
2 out of 5
Price stability
5 out of 5
Short names available
3 out of 5
Local meaning
5 out of 5

Overview

What is .org.uk

.org.uk sits under .uk, the extension that entered the internet’s root in 1985 for the United Kingdom, and its manager in the IANA record is Nominet UK. The part org comes from organization, so people there read it as a non-profit before they even open the site.

Nominet intends it for non-profit and public-service bodies, but neither requires nor polices it: anyone, person or body, from any country can register it, with no documents and no address in Britain. So it suits charities, communities and initiatives working there, among them many Arab communities.

It supports DNSSEC signing, but Nominet doesn’t offer internationalized names, so no names in Arabic. Its price with us is lower than .com and fixed every year. And what people read in it cuts both ways: it reassures donors, but it doesn’t look like a store or a company that sells.

Type
Country extension (ccTLD)
Parent extension
.uk
In the root since
July 24, 1985, with .uk
Name’s origin
organization + United Kingdom
Responsible body
Nominet UK
Who may register
Anyone, person or organization, from any country
DNSSEC
Supported
Names in Arabic
Not supported

Who it suits

For your field: is .org.uk the best fit?

Every field has an extension that says something about it. Here is what .org.uk says in each, and which extension completes it.

  • A charity in Britain

    Excellent · The first choice

    Donors there understand from the extension alone that you’re a non-profit; add .org for those looking for you around the world.

    Register it with.org.uk.org

  • An Arab community association there

    Excellent · The first choice

    An address saying your association is a non-profit body in Britain; add .uk for the short form.

    Register it with.org.uk.uk

  • An initiative linking Britain and Oman

    Good · A good fit with .org

    Partners and donors in Britain find you by the first, and those you serve in Oman know you by .org, tied to no country.

    Register it with.org.uk.org

  • A community Arabic school

    Good · A good fit

    It says you serve learners rather than sell to them; add .education if you want an extension that says “education.”

    Register it with.org.uk.education

  • A company or store

    Consider another · Consider .co.uk

    Customers read org as a non-profit, so prices surprise them; .co.uk says you’re a company.

    Register it with.co.uk.uk

  • An association in Oman

    Consider another · Consider .org

    Those you serve are in Oman, not in Britain; .org says you’re a non-profit without saying “Britain.”

    Register it with.org.community

What it does for you

What you gain when you register it

  • Says “non-profit” in Britain

    Donors and volunteers there understand from the extension alone that you serve people.

  • Email that reassures donors

    Thank-you notes and receipts from info@ghiras-muscat.org.uk come from a non-profit’s address, not a free mailbox.

  • Open from any country

    You need no address in Britain to register it.

  • Your association’s name protected

    Register it before someone impersonating it does and collects donations in its name.

And where its value shows

In donation campaigns there

A link that reassures donors before they give.

With partners and donors

The address of a serious body, not a passing page.

In community newsletters

A link saying you’re a non-profit.

On posters and banners

Read, and its meaning understood, with no explaining.

Pros and cons

What you should know before you register

Frankly, as we’d tell a customer who asks us before registering.

Pros

  • 01Says “non-profit” to those who read it in Britain
  • 02Open to everyone from any country, with no documents
  • 03Lower-priced than .com with us, and fixed every year
  • 04Under .uk, which entered the internet’s root in 1985
  • 05Supports DNSSEC signing

Cons

  • 01Doesn’t look like a store or a company that sells
  • 02Says nothing to those outside Britain
  • 03Doesn’t prove its holder is a non-profit, as nothing requires it
  • 04Doesn’t support names in Arabic

Rules

Registration terms for .org.uk

What the registry requires and what we add, in one place.

Who may register
Anyone, person or organization, from any country
Documents
None required
Name length
Up to 63 characters
Characters
a–z, digits and hyphens, never first or last
Names in Arabic
Not supported
Registration term
1 to 10 years
DNSSEC
Supported
Privacy protection
Your name and address don’t show in WHOIS unless you agree
Transfer
By a tag change at Nominet, free and with no change to the expiry date; with a transfer code from February 9, 2027

Life cycle

From registration until the name is free again

What happens to your name if it isn’t renewed, and when you can still get it back.

  1. 01Registration1 to 10 yearsThe name is yours from the moment you pay, for the term you chose.
  2. 02After expiryThe first 30 daysThe website and email keep working, and you can renew it.
  3. 03SuspensionUntil day 90The name stops working, but it can still be renewed.
  4. 04DeletionUntil day 95It can’t be renewed after day 90, and is free again on day 95.

Tips

Before you register

  1. 1Name the association as its papers doMake the name before .org.uk the one on its papers and newsletters, so donors find it on the first search.
  2. 2Register the name in .org tooThose looking for you from outside Britain may type .org, so don’t leave your name there for an impersonator.
  3. 3A short name, read as it’s writtenIf it needs spelling out on the phone, it’s too long or too complicated.
  4. 4No digits or hyphens that need explainingEvery hyphen or digit has to be said, and what has to be said gets forgotten.
  5. 5Renew automatically, or register for yearsUp to 10 years at once, so you never miss a date.
  6. 6Make sure the name isn’t someone else’s trademarkA registered trademark’s owner can recover the name from whoever registered it first.

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Frequently asked questions about .org.uk

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  • $15 a year, for the first year and every renewal: the price you see when you search, with no other fees at registration.

  • Anyone, person or organization, from any country, with no documents and no address in the UK.

  • Yes. Until February 9, 2027 a transfer is a “tag” change at Nominet, free and with no change to the expiry date; from that day it takes a transfer code valid for 14 days, with an optional renewal at transfer.

  • Under Nominet’s current rules the name keeps working for 30 days after it expires and can be renewed; then it stops until day 90 and can still be renewed; then it is deleted and is free again on day 95. From February 9, 2027, .uk follows grace periods like the generic extensions’.

  • No. IANA’s repository of internationalized names (IDN) holds no Arabic table for .uk, so names in it use Latin letters, digits and hyphens.

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