Nominet UK is the .uk domain name domain name registry.

It was founded in 1996, when its predecessor, the Naming Committee was unable to deal with the volume of registrations then being sought under the .uk domain. Dr Willie Black, the .uk Name and founder of Nominet met with representatives of ISPs then involved in the domain name system and from those meetings it was decided to establish Nominet UK.

Accordingly Nominet is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. It has members who act as shareholders. Anyone can become a member, but most members are Internet service providers who are also tagholders (see below).

Unlike the model in other countries, by and large customers wishing to register a domain do not approach Nominet directly, but register the domain via a tagholder . Loosely, this is an organisation with a credit account who have registered a PGP key with Nominet.

As of 31st August 2005 the .uk register held 4,349,206 .uk domain names. [http://www.nic.uk/Statistics/RegistrationStatistics/]

Nominet also deals with disputes about registrations of .uk domain names, via its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS), which is similar to the UDRP system used for generic Top Level Domain Names, but with certain innovations such as a free mediation service.

Nominet manage the following domains:

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