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The Great British domain name rip-off: Overcharged .uk customers help pay for cheaper .vodka

Netscrape

When they added the .uk domain to the .co.uk domain, they were effectively holding domain owners to ransom.

It's amusing that it is illegal for me to register variants of domains and then go to the owner of the original domain and ask for cash. This is what Nominet did with the .uk addition.

This extra cash would have given them quite a war chest to grow the business.

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