Domain Name Registration

We offer same day domain name registration, with registrations possible in many countries. The most popular are listed below:

Please note our resellers receive preferential rates.

For the fastest response, and immediate registration please call our domain hotline on: 08 4567 12345 or contact us.

Please also contact us for details of our corporate domain management packages.

A Commercial Zone - co.uk
A Zone for non-commercial organisations - org.uk
A limited company - .ltd.uk
A Public Limited Company - .plc.uk
An Academic Zone - ac.uk
A Governmental Zone - gov.uk
A Zone for schools - lea.sch.uk
The Ministry of Defence - mod.uk
The National Health Service - nhs.uk
UK Internet Networks - net.uk
Other zones under .uk

Any person may own any number of names with the .co.uk suffix as long as they continue paying for the administration of the name.
Names can have a minimum of three characters.
Two authoritative name servers must be working such that a zone transfer be possible from each within 24 hours of the request reaching the SOA (taken care of by us)
First come first served subject to above.

The org.uk domain is intended to be a domain for those organisations which do not satisfactorily 'fit' into any of the other sub-domains of UK. This includes:

Charities.
Trades unions.
Political parties.
Community groups.
Educational councils.
Professional institutions, etc.
Rules for org.uk domain names are:

Only 1 domain per organisation/body name.
The name should reflect the name of the requesting organisation.
Minimum of three characters without human intervention.
At least 2 nameservers serving the name within 24 hours of the request (taken care of by us)
Subject to the above criteria, first come first served.

The .ac.uk domain is used by organisations providing education at tertiary level and above along with organisations historically associated with higher education such as the Research Councils.
Rules for .ac.uk domains:

An institution may have an entry in .ac.uk provided it satisfies at least one of the following statements.
A degree awarding institution.
Institutions that teach at tertiary level (including sixth-form colleges) and above, i.e. do not normally accept students below the age for compulsory education.
Institutions that conduct research where a reasonable proportion of the results are placed in the public domain.
Learned societies.
The UK further and higher education funding councils and the UK research councils.
The method of determining what name an institution may adopt shall be.
No two character names.
One domain per trading name of the institution will be allowed.
Name requested shall reflect the legal name or trading name of the institution.
The chosen name shall minimise the risk of confusion with other similarly named institutions and avoid the risk of inadvertent masquerading.
First come first served subject to above.

The .gov.uk domain is used by all UK government departments (except Defence), local government bodies and associated government funded organisations. The usual rules about approval apply with the added exception that the SOA and/or its advisors may reject an application.
Registration is limited to:

UK government departments.
Local government bodies.
Associated government funded organisations.

Naming Administration for schools.
Schools are registered using a third-level sub domain as there will be numerous cases of schools having the same name. The method used within England and Wales is to use the local education authority area as the sub domain name. For example:

(School name).(Local Education Authority). sch.uk
St-davids.bromley.sch.uk
Scotland is undergoing a reorganisation and at present a mixture of the region names and the new local authority names is being used. In Northern Ireland it is proposed to use the names of the counties and county boroughs.

The .mod.uk domain is used by all Ministry of Defence establishments. Applications for names are approved by DRA Malvern acting on behalf of MOD. It should be noted that this domain has not been delegated.

The .net.uk domain is provided as an alternative to registering in the .net domain.

This domain is intended to hold only the computers of network providers, that is the NIC and NOC computers, the administrative computers, and the network node computers. The customers of the network provider would have domain names of their own (not in the NET TLD).

The same rules will be applied to requests to register in .net.uk. This means customer e-mail address should not appear in any .net.uk sub-domain.

The purpose of this document is to describe the rules for the allocation of names within the domains ltd.uk and plc.uk. The ltd.uk and plc.uk domains are intended to allow a unique mapping between company names registered under the Companies Act with Company's House and a DNS name. Although it was envisaged by the Naming Committee that only ltd.uk was required, Nominet UK's legal advisors have said that a public limited company registering within ltd.uk would be committing a criminal offence. Therefore the additional plc.uk is required.

Note: Within these rules all references to ltd.uk should be taken to apply equally to plc.uk.

Note: Unlimited companies registered under the Companies Act, unincorporated bodies, partnerships and bodies incorporated under other legislation are not eligible for an entry in ltd.uk or plc.uk.

The only characters from a registered company name allowed in a DNS name are the letters A to Z, a to z, the numbers 0 to 9 and hyphen. These will be known as the "allowable" set.

Certain words will be removed from the registered company name before the DNS name is generated, these are known as the "reserved" words. They are "limited", "public limited company" and the Welsh Language versions along with the abbreviations of these words, e.g. ltd, plc, ccc. There are believed to be other "reserved" words such as "International".

One name per company name registered at Company's House.
The name shall correspond exactly to the registered name save for characters not in the "allowable" set which shall be interpreted as below and the "reserved" words.
White space between words shall either be ignored or replaced by a single hyphen "-" (see below for how the interpretation is made).
All other characters shall be removed.
Company names written in a non English character set are not allowed in this version.
Note: It is believed that these rules represent the way that Company's House interpret names in order to produce a unique match. In the event that they do not and/or that Company's House rules change in the future, the first successful applicant for a name will be assigned the name.

There is the possibility that applications will contain characters that are treated as significant and are not in the "allowable" set.

This version of the rules will not allow these applications to be allocated a name.

It is envisaged that applications will be made using an automated procedure. The requester of the name will be responsible for acquiring proof of incorporation. The application must state the full name of the company as registered along with the company registration number. The automated procedure shall determine the form of the DNS name and shall delegate the name as soon as possible after application and at worst within 3 working days. Altaire reserves the right to check a sample or all of the requests for accuracy (before or after delegation) and, pending resolution, may remove a registration, if the rules have been violated.

Note: If registering a UK domain please follow this link to view full Nominet terms & conditions.

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