.uk WHOIS Lookup

Type

Country-code TLD (ccTLD) · United Kingdom

Registry operator

Nominet

In use since

1985

RDAP server

https://rdap.nominet.uk/uk/

WHOIS server (port 43)

whois.nic.uk

Registry model

Thick — contact data in the registry record

After expiry

Set by the registry’s own policy

The United Kingdom's country code, run by Nominet. Most names sit at the second level — co.uk, org.uk, me.uk — and direct .uk registrations have been possible since 2014. Second-level names are answered by the same RDAP server; type a name like bbc.co.uk directly.

Registrar

British Broadcasting Corporation

Created

13.12.1994

Expires

13.12.2034 · in 8 years

Status codes

server delete prohibitedserver transfer prohibitedserver update prohibited

Nameservers

ddns0.bbc.co.ukddns0.bbc.comddns1.bbc.co.ukddns1.bbc.comdns0.bbc.co.ukdns0.bbc.comdns1.bbc.co.ukdns1.bbc.com

DNSSEC

Unsigned

Look it up live: bbc.co.uk

Country-code extensions are not bound by ICANN's generic-TLD rules: Nominet decides which fields are published and when an expired name is deleted. The result page shows whatever the registry's RDAP server publishes.

Next to the registration data you get live DNS, SPF/DMARC, the TLS certificate, the HTTPS response and the abuse history of the hosting addresses on ip-db.com. Type just a name (e.g. example) and .uk is added; the same data is available from the JSON API.

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