coming soon to AU ?

[findtim]

http://www.dotuklaunch.co.uk/

nice looking website but REAL information is as hard to find as an auda membership application form

tim

 

[elbranch]

Thanks for that Tim, very interesting.

Check your rights to .uk

For the majority of you the new .uk equivalent domain will be automatically reserved for you when it launches on 10 June 2014. So if you have a unique .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .net.uk, .plc.uk or .ltd.uk the shorter and snappier .uk will be reserved especially for you for free up until 10 June 2019 as long as your domain remains registered.

Seems to be a very high level of protection of existing domain name owners if there are no other extensions being used for the names they own. It is not clear how it works if there is more than one extension for the name already registered.

 

[Cooper Mills DomainLawyer]

based on the previous names policy panel there does not appear to be any appetite for direct .au registrations - see previous report here

I have not seen any change in thinking out there either