.uk domain availability checker
The .uk domain is a country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for United Kingdom, operated by Nominet and introduced in 1985.
Check whether any .uk domain is available, with bulk lookups and WHOIS records for taken names. Type just the name and Naked Whois appends .uk automatically.
About .uk
.uk is the country-code TLD for the United Kingdom, operated by Nominet, a non-profit company that has run the namespace since 1996. For most of its history .uk was used exclusively through second-level subdomains: .co.uk for commercial sites, .org.uk for non-profits, .ac.uk for academic institutions, .gov.uk for government, and so on.
In 2014 Nominet opened direct second-level .uk registrations (example.uk alongside example.co.uk), giving existing .co.uk holders a priority window to claim the matching .uk before it became available to anyone. The priority window closed in 2019, and direct .uk registrations are now fully open.
.co.uk remains the dominant pattern by registration count and brand familiarity, but direct .uk is increasingly used for shorter, more modern presentations.