When is the deadline?
I'm confused. I recalled the deadline as being 10 June which seems to be confirmed here: https://www.nominet.uk/email-to-uk-rights-holders/ "the reservation will last until 10 June 2019."
This ElReg article refers to 8 June so I thought I'd better check as I still have a handful of .co.uk names without the corresponding .uk
Frankly I think the whole bare .uk scheme is a scam, I'm registering the variants for a year on a defensive basis but not routing them to a web site or using them at all.
Go to https://www.nominet.uk/ and there's a countdown clock showing 18 days left (as at 6/6/19) saying "You may have a reserved .uk domain. The clock is ticking, register it today before someone else can".
Further searching finds https://www.theukdomain.uk/do-i-have-uk-rights/ "If you own a .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .net.uk, .plc.uk, or ltd.uk domain, the matching .uk domain may have been reserved for you until 25 June 2019 and released to the open market on 1 July (what's the status of the names for the intervening week I wonder).
I used to use 123reg and some time ago, without asking, they "reserved" some bare .uk name variants responding to the .co.uk registrations I held with them. Since then I moved almost everything away from 123 to somewhere that does uk names for half the price, has better customer service (as anyone who's used 123reg will know, that's easily done) and a better UI. I had tried to move the bare .uk names 123 hold but I get an error when I try to transfer out...
With some other .co.uk names I held elsewhere it was going to cost about £8 to buy the bare .uk variant so I went looking and found 123reg were offering first year registration for 99p so I clicked that, it went into the shopping basket at £11.99 (inc VAT). Anyone know where to go to register them on the cheap?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
