.uk domain registration from Pakistan

Price and how to order

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Search any name on the availability checker, or go straight to the order form. We confirm availability before registering, you pay in rupees by bank transfer, Raast, JazzCash or Easypaisa, and the domain is registered in your own name.

Who uses .uk

• Pakistani exporters selling to UK buyers
• Freelancers and software houses with UK clients
• British-Pakistani family businesses
• Brands that want something shorter than .co.uk
• Owners of a .co.uk protecting the matching .uk

A Sialkot sports-goods maker or a Lahore software house whose customers sit in Manchester or Birmingham can use a British web address without a British office, because Nominet does not ask for a UK address. We register the .uk in your own name through a registrar, check availability before filing, take payment in rupees by bank transfer, Raast, JazzCash or Easypaisa, and aim to file the same working day the payment arrives. Many customers pair it with a .pk or .com.pk for the home market.

Eligibility and rules

Who may register: Open to anyone, anywhere

• Name format: only the letters a to z, the digits 0 to 9 and hyphens are allowed. The whole name, including the .uk ending, may not be longer than 64 characters; Nominet says it intends to allow longer names in future but has not announced that change. Nominet does not offer internationalised names, so Urdu or accented characters (names starting xn--) are refused.
• Who may register: Nominet's Rules of Registration say any person may register a name directly under .uk, and there is no residency test. Nominet's policy for its new platform describes .uk as intended for those who wish to be associated with the United Kingdom, but marks that as advisory only. Since Nominet's 2018 GDPR changes a UK address for service is no longer needed and PO box addresses are accepted, and Nominet's registry has registrant types for non-UK individuals and non-UK companies. Other endings have their own limits: .ltd.uk and .plc.uk are only for companies on the UK companies register, .me.uk only for individuals, and .net.uk and .sch.uk have their own criteria.
• Data checks and documents: no paperwork is needed to file a .uk, but Nominet checks the registrant's name and postal address against third-party data (it names Royal Mail, the electoral roll and Companies House) when a name is registered or the details change. Where it cannot match them it may ask for identification or a company certificate, and a name whose details cannot be validated can be suspended. Its ID checks run through a service called Mitek and ask for photo ID and proof of address, such as a passport, bank statement or bill. Giving false details, or failing to keep them up to date, is grounds for Nominet to cancel the name. From 9 February 2027 the new registrant terms require contact changes within 7 days and a reply to accuracy checks within 30 days.
• Term and renewal: a .uk can be registered or renewed for 1 to 10 years at a time, but only through a registrar that is a Nominet member; Nominet's default term is two years and registrars that are not members can only renew in two-year blocks. A renewal always runs from the original expiry date and time, whether you renew early or late, so renewing late does not lose you any days.
• Expiry lifecycle (Nominet's own): for 30 days after expiry the name still works and can be renewed through the registrar. From day 30 to day 90 it can still be renewed, but Nominet stops it resolving, so the website and email stop, and it appears on Nominet's daily drop list. From day 90 to day 95 it is queued for deletion and can no longer be renewed. At day 95 it is deleted and anyone may register it. Your registrar may suspend services earlier than this.
• Changing registrar and privacy: a .uk moves between registrars by registrar TAG. Nominet's March 2023 paper says the current move does not change the expiry date and costs the registrar nothing; a registrant doing it personally through Nominet Online Services pays GBP 10 plus VAT per transaction. From 9 February 2027 Nominet withdraws Online Services for registrants and every change, including a registrar move, must go through a registrar. On privacy, Nominet's lookup does not show a registrant's name or postal address unless the registrant chooses to display them, a change Nominet made for GDPR in 2018; Nominet still gives law enforcement access to the names and addresses it holds.

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