Dot UK: British firms can trim web addresses

By Freya Berry LONDON (Reuters) - Businesses using the ".co.uk" web address domain will be able to shorten the suffix to simply ".uk" next year to help make website names snappier, British Internet registry organization Nominet said on Wednesday. For those already holding .co.uk, .org.uk, and other similar addresses, Nominet will offer an equivalent .uk domain, which will be held in reserve for five years. "There's a lot of support for a shorter and snappier domain," said Lesley Cowley, chief executive of Nominet, a not-for-profit company.



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