Reply to post: Re: Little to do with automatic renewal

123-Reg customers outraged at automatic .UK domain registration

TheVogon

Re: Little to do with automatic renewal

"True on the face of it and taken by itself; except that you'll lose everybody who has grown used to typing in .co.uk for the last two decades"

If you just switched it over with an existing commercial site that relies on search engines / shortcuts / consumer memory, yes sure that wouldn't be good. But no one sane would do that - you would likely forward the old address to the new address and over time potentially transition to .uk once your traffic figures to the old site drop to tiny. 2 Years is probably enough for most sites to transition - if you actually care about the cost of registering both versions.

For corporate / personal - you can just choose to transition at your convenience - and going forward I would have thought for new sites the shorter url version would be commonly preferred. However that's just based on my preference...

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