Your British business starts here
Register a .co.uk Domain From 5.78 GBP
Recognisable. Commercial. Yours.
A Familiar Address for Your UK Business.
Think about the address printed on your van, shop window or business card. .co.uk gives that address a familiar British commercial ending. For a retailer such as oakfinch.co.uk, it can bring product enquiries, supplier messages and returning customers back to one recognisable name.
- Lead with what customers remember. Choose your trading name, or a clear variation, instead of relying on a long social-profile link.
- Make your market clear. A British-facing business can use .co.uk across local advertising and nationwide promotions.
- Keep room to grow. Start with a simple contact page; connect a shop or booking service later without replacing the address.
Budget for the whole registration
.co.uk Domain Pricing
The introductory charge is only part of the decision. Check what you will pay to secure an available name, keep it for another year or move it from a different registrar.
Make It Yours
5.78 GBP / first year
Reserve your business address before commissioning signs, packaging or a new website.
Check .co.uk availabilityKeep Your Name
£4.91 / year
Returning customers should still find you next year. Allow for this renewal charge in your running costs.
Explore registration costsBring Registered address
£4.91 / transfer
Keep your existing address while bringing its administration into your Truehost account.
Move your existing .co.ukBefore paying: the figures above come from our pricing system, rather than a fixed estimate in this page. Review the order summary for applicable taxes, special-name pricing and any additional purchases.
Choose your UK address
Compare UK Domain Prices
Compare .uk, .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk registration, renewal and transfer prices.
| .co.uk | £5.78 | £4.91 | £4.91 |
| .uk | £5.78 | £4.91 | £0.00 |
No domain extensions match your search.
Another ending may fit
.co.uk Domain Alternatives
Is your preferred .co.uk taken? Explore these available landing pages for other extensions, then compare their registration conditions before committing to a different ending.
Practical ways to put it to work
A .co.uk Domain for the Business You’re Building
A domain earns its place when customers can use it. These illustrative businesses show how an address can support a shopfront, a service enquiry or a growing brand.
Find Your .co.ukIndependent Retail
Put Your Shop on the Map
Give customers one address to find your opening hours, browse collections and get in touch.
Online Selling
Open Your Digital Shopfront
Connect your domain to an online shop and put the address on receipts, packaging and delivery notes.
Trades & Services
Turn Recommendations into Enquiries
Show completed projects, explain the areas you cover and help prospective clients request a quote.
Brand Consistency
Cover Both Ways Customers Find You
If both names are available, register .co.uk and .uk separately and redirect one to your main website.
After the purchase
.co.uk Domain Management, Made Simple
Once registered, your address needs instructions about where visitors and messages should go. Use the account tools to maintain those connections, review your registration and organise a future move.
DNS management
Enter the records supplied by your website platform. Check the destination carefully before replacing an existing entry.
Nameserver control
Using another provider’s DNS? Apply its nameservers so it becomes responsible for answering queries for the address.
Renewal management
Review the registration’s end date early enough to arrange payment and retain access to your customer-facing name.
Transfer support
Ask for guidance on transferring registrar responsibility, including the steps required by the UK registry.
Day-to-day administration
Why Choose Truehost for Your .co.uk Domain?
The purchase is the beginning, not the whole job. These account features help you connect services, handle incoming messages and maintain access to the address your customers use.
One-click Cloudflare push
Use the Cloudflare push feature to reduce manual DNS copying when connecting that service to your registration.
A Simple Starting Price
5.78 GBP / first year
Check the live first-year figure before you settle on a business name or commit money to printed materials.
Renewal Without Guesswork
£4.91 / year
The renewal figure is shown independently, helping you plan beyond an introductory registration offer.
Free DNS management
Maintain website destinations and verification entries without buying a separate DNS-management add-on.
Free email forwarding
An email forwarder redirects incoming messages to a mailbox you already use; it is not a replacement for a full hosted mailbox.
2FA and domain lock
Use two-factor authentication and the available domain protection controls to reduce the risk of unwanted account or transfer activity.
Free business email
Free business email is planned. Need an inbox today? Explore current email plans →
Free website builder
A free website builder is planned. Ready to start now? Explore the website builder →
Not available yet: these planned features are not included with domain registration today.
Connect the customer journey
How to Use Your .co.uk Domain
A customer may first discover your shop online, send a question and later sign into an account. Each step can carry the same business identity. Configure the relevant service’s DNS requirements; separate providers can still sit behind a shared domain.
- Let customers explore the business at oakfinch.co.uk.
- Handle product questions through [email protected].
- Give buyers dedicated destinations such as shop.oakfinch.co.uk and account.oakfinch.co.uk.
A simple address plan
Build Around One Memorable Address
Decide which destination belongs at the main address and which deserves its own prefix. The examples below are illustrative, not claims that these names are available.
| Customer Task | Illustrative Destination | What Visitors Find |
|---|---|---|
| Explore the business | oakfinch.co.uk | Opening times, background and ways to get in touch |
| Place an order | shop.oakfinch.co.uk | A catalogue, basket and payment journey |
| Sign in for assistance | account.oakfinch.co.uk | Private order history and service requests |
| Ask a question | [email protected] | A branded contact address handled by your mailbox provider |
Choose the services you need
Build More Around Your .co.uk Domain
Your registration does not build a website or supply a hosted mailbox by itself. Add the products your business actually needs; each carries its own subscription and billing terms.
Workplace Pro Email
From £0.54 / month
Give colleagues individual mailboxes for quotations, supplier conversations and customer correspondence under your trading name.
Choose mailboxes →Cloud Hosting
From £2.00 / month
Choose somewhere to store the site’s files and database, then connect the new address when the website is ready.
Explore web hosting →AI Website Builder
From £2.25 / month
Start with a website-building tool if you want to assemble pages without writing the underlying code yourself.
Build your site →VPS Hosting
From £4.71 / month
Choose a virtual server when your software needs more control over its hosting environment than a shared account provides.
Choose server resources →SSL Certificates
From £5.00 / year
Use an appropriate certificate with your hosting setup to enable encrypted browser connections to the site.
Explore SSL options →Check the spelling first
.co.uk Domain Name Rules
Write down the exact spelling before searching. The portion to the left of .co.uk must satisfy Nominet’s format rules, and a valid spelling can still be reserved or belong to somebody else.
Accepted in a .co.uk name
Not accepted
Check Sample Spellings
| Candidate | Format Check | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
oakfinch.co.uk | Valid spelling | Uses the permitted alphabet |
oak-finch24.co.uk | Valid spelling | Combines letters with a middle hyphen and digits |
-oakfinch.co.uk | Invalid spelling | An opening hyphen breaks the format rule |
oak_finch.co.uk | Invalid spelling | The underscore is outside the permitted character set |
Prepare your details
Your .co.uk Registration Checklist
Sole traders, individuals and organisations can apply for .co.uk. This is not the restricted .ltd.uk namespace: incorporation is not a prerequisite. Supply truthful details for the person or organisation that will hold the registration.
Information you need
What registration does not provide
Before you register
Check matching endings
Consider how somebody hearing your business name would type it. Search any important variation before printing an address you may later want to change.
Check existing rights
A successful availability search is not a trade-mark clearance. Check existing businesses and relevant rights before adopting a name for commercial use.
Use a durable email
Choose an inbox you can reach even if this domain stops working. That makes registration queries and time-sensitive account notices easier to handle.
Understand the namespace
.co.uk Domain Facts
A snapshot of the .co.uk register, using Nominet’s latest published breakdown for August 2026. These figures describe .co.uk specifically, rather than all third-level UK domains.
- 8,686,036
- .co.uk domains registered
- At the end of August 2026
- +56,823
- net increase in .co.uk domains
- Compared with July 2026
- 81.5%
- of the .UK domain register
- .co.uk share at August month-end
Source: Nominet register statistics, August 2026. Net increase is the change in registered domains, not the number of new registrations. Share calculated from 10,657,724 total .UK domains. Checked 9 September 2026.
.co.uk Registry and Registration Specifications
Expand the relevant topic for a practical reference on registration, DNS and recovery. These are registry requirements, not a promise that every possible term or feature is offered in your order.
Visit NominetRegistry IdentityWhere .co.uk sits in the domain family
| Property | .co.uk requirement |
|---|---|
| Example registration | Third-level .co.uk name: oakfinch.co.uk |
| Position in DNS | The registered label sits below co.uk; .uk is the country-code top-level domain above it. |
| Country namespace | United Kingdom (.UK ccTLD) |
| Registry organisation | Nominet UK |
| Country-domain delegation | 24 July 1985 |
| Commercial category | Intended for commerce, without an incorporated-company-only restriction. |
Registration RulesApplicant and spelling requirements
| Property | .co.uk requirement |
|---|---|
| Eligible applicants | Individuals and organisations can apply, provided they meet the registry’s contractual requirements. |
| How names are assigned | An available spelling goes to the first successful application; reserved names remain excluded. |
| Permitted duration | The registry accepts periods of one through ten years. Confirm which options Truehost offers for the selected order. |
| Full-address length limit | Count every character, including .co.uk and the dots: the complete address may not exceed 64. |
| Character set | Basic Latin letters, decimal digits and permitted hyphens; accents are excluded. |
| IDN support | Internationalised registrations are unavailable. The prefix xn-- is therefore prohibited. |
| Capitalisation | Changing the letter case does not create a different registration. |
| Other suffixes | A purchase covers this ending only; matching names under other endings require additional orders. |
DNS & Registry ServicesTechnical configuration and disclosure
| Property | .co.uk requirement |
|---|---|
| DNSSEC | Your DNS host must support signing and the necessary DS records for DNSSEC to be configured. |
| Nameserver allowance | The registry permits a maximum of ten nameserver entries. |
| Registrant disclosure | Personal names and postal addresses are withheld from public display by default unless consent is given. |
| Registration lookup | Query technical registration details through the RDAP service. |
Lifecycle & ProtectionDeadlines and complaint handling
| Property | .co.uk requirement |
|---|---|
| Renewal deadline | Renew before the 90-day post-expiry deadline. A name left unrenewed is scheduled to drop at its expiry timestamp plus 95 days. |
| Disputed registrations | Allegations of abusive .co.uk registration may be handled through Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service. |
Avoid a lost address
What Happens If .co.uk Expires?
An expired address can interrupt far more than a website: quotations, password resets and customer messages may depend on it too. Arrange renewal before the end date. The registry’s recovery window is a last opportunity, not a sensible renewal schedule.
Active
Check that payment arrangements and contact details remain usable while the registration is current.
Renewal Due
The displayed renewal charge is £4.91. Complete payment early, especially if a colleague must approve it.
Expired
During the first 30 days after expiry, the address normally still resolves. Act immediately rather than treating continued service as proof of renewal.
Suspended
From day 31, DNS suspension interrupts connected services. Recovery remains possible until the registry’s 90-day renewal deadline.
Cancelled
At the expiry timestamp plus 95 days, the unrenewed name is scheduled to drop. Someone else may then register it; recovery is no longer guaranteed.
Choose a registration period
Plan the Registration Beyond Year One
Compare the full price for each available term. Search for your name, then choose your registration period in checkout.
| Term | Total price | Savings vs annual renewal | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 year | £5.78 | No saving | Search domains |
| 2 years | £10.69 | No saving | Search domains |
| 3 years | £15.60 | No saving | Search domains |
| 4 years | £20.51 | No saving | Search domains |
| 5 years | £25.42 | No saving | Search domains |
Select your term in checkout. Domain availability, applicable promotions, premium-name pricing and taxes are confirmed there.
Move without renaming
Already Have a .co.uk Domain?
You can change the registrar without choosing a new trading address. Prepare the account access and DNS information first, then follow the UK tag-change process. Registrar transfer and website migration are separate jobs.
Transfer — £4.91- 01
Prepare the account access
Locate the current registrar login and check who is authorised to request changes. Keep a copy of the working DNS configuration.
- 02
Request the receiving details
Begin a Truehost transfer order for the exact .co.uk spelling and obtain the instructions for accepting it.
- 03
Update the IPS tag
Give the current registrar the receiving tag supplied by Truehost. Check that the existing website and mail destinations remain correct after the handover.
Questions before you commit
.co.uk Domain FAQs
Practical answers for business owners choosing an address, setting up services or moving an existing registration.
Is .co.uk restricted to limited companies?
No. Individuals, sole traders and organisations can register a .co.uk domain. A limited company is not required.
Choose the correct holder when registering:
- Personal project: use your own accurate contact details.
- Business address: register it to the person or organisation that should control it.
- Client work: agree ownership before placing the order.
.ltd.uk has different requirements. See the .co.uk registration checklist before you start.
Will the introductory price apply every year?
The introductory registration price and renewal price are separate. Compare both before choosing your name.
| Charge | Current price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Registration | 5.78 GBP | Your first year |
| Renewal | £4.91 | Keeping your registration active |
Check your chosen term and final order total at checkout. See registration periods for longer-term planning.
Does .co.uk guarantee better Google rankings?
No domain ending guarantees a Google ranking. Choose .co.uk because it fits your business and audience.
Build the website around what customers need:
- Explain your services and the areas you cover.
- Make contact details and opening hours easy to find.
- Publish helpful information about your products or work.
- Keep navigation clear on phones and computers.
A memorable address supports your brand. Your website still needs useful content and a good visitor experience.
Can I buy the address before the website is ready?
Yes. You can register an available .co.uk while you are planning the website.
- Choose your name. Check spelling before completing registration.
- Keep account access safe. Maintain your contact details and renewal arrangements.
- Connect your site when ready. Add the DNS records supplied by your hosting provider.
Explore web hosting or the website builder when you are ready to publish.
Does the purchase include a working email inbox?
Registering a domain does not create a hosted mailbox. You need an email service to send and receive messages at an address such as [email protected].
- Domain: the name used in your email address.
- Mailbox: the inbox and service that handle messages.
- Forwarding: routes incoming messages to another inbox; it is not a full mailbox service.
See business email hosting for available plans. The planned free email option is not available yet.
Must my website and email use the same provider?
No. Your website and email can use different providers while sharing the same .co.uk domain.
Each service supplies its own DNS instructions:
- Website: commonly uses A or CNAME records.
- Email: uses mail-routing and verification records supplied by your email provider.
- Nameservers: determine where you manage those records.
Save the existing configuration before making changes. Preserve email records when connecting a new website, and test both services afterwards.
Can I keep .co.uk indefinitely?
You can keep your .co.uk by renewing it and meeting the registration terms. It is not a one-time purchase for permanent ownership.
The registry permits terms up to ten years; available checkout options determine the term you can purchase.
- Review the expiry date regularly.
- Keep your payment and contact details current.
- Make sure the person responsible for renewal can access the account.
Review your registrations in your domain account.
What if my preferred business name is taken?
Try a clear variation before abandoning the name. A blank website does not mean its domain is available.
- Add a relevant service word, such as “studio” or “gardens”.
- Use a location if it is a lasting part of your business.
- Consider the matching .uk or another suitable extension.
Avoid spellings that are difficult to explain or easily confused with another business.
Should my matching .uk point to the same website?
If you own both names, you can use one as the main address and redirect the other to it.
- Choose the primary domain. Use it consistently on your website and marketing.
- Set up the redirect. Follow your hosting provider’s instructions for the second domain.
- Test both addresses. Check that visitors reach the intended website.
The two registrations remain separate and both need renewal. A website redirect does not automatically configure email.
Explore the .uk domain page to check the matching ending.
Why must my registration details stay accurate?
Your registrar may need to reach you about account access, registration checks or renewal. Outdated details can delay an urgent response.
Review your details when:
- Your business changes address or ownership.
- The person managing the domain leaves.
- Your recovery email or telephone number changes.
Use a recovery inbox you can access even if this domain stops working. Review the holder and contact information in your domain account.
Is transferring a .co.uk domain the same as moving hosting?
No. A domain transfer changes the registrar managing your registration. It does not copy your website, database or mailboxes.
- Prepare the domain transfer. Confirm account access and obtain Truehost’s receiving instructions.
- Follow the UK tag-change process. Use the receiving IPS tag supplied for your transfer.
- Plan hosting separately. Arrange any website or email migration before changing service destinations.
- Check the result. Confirm the domain, website and email work as intended.
Start on the domain transfer page. Keep a copy of the existing DNS settings throughout the move.
Can I recover a .co.uk after services stop?
Possibly. First establish whether the problem is an expired registration, a hosting issue or a DNS change.
For an expired .co.uk, the recovery window is time-limited:
- First 30 days: the domain normally continues resolving.
- From day 31: suspension can interrupt the website and email.
- Before the 90-day deadline: arrange renewal with the registrar.
- At day 95: an unrenewed name is scheduled for release.
Contact your registrar promptly. See the expiry timeline; do not wait for the final day to act.
Choose the address customers will use
Ready for Your .co.uk Domain?
Search your preferred spelling now. Review availability, the registration charge and your chosen term before placing the order.
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