uk.com and gb.com

how do you rate these new domains

[mikeH]

Looking at buying a site with the extension of either uk.com and gb.com. Anyone had any success or bad experiences using these extensions. Or similar regional extensions.

[react]

.com or .co.uk take preference ANY day.

For some reason I do not trust them, say they forget to renew uk.com and you have a business based on that website!

Maybe I am just paranoid, plus their fees are really expensive.

[takagi]

Some potential visitors seeing the URL of a sub domain of uk.com (on a businesscard, an add, etc.) might think it is a typo and enter the 'correct' URL (ending with '.co.uk') in the address bar of their browser. Maybe even when exchanging links. Just a thought.

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On www.google.co.uk there is an option 'pages from the UK'. Having a real '.co.uk' domain will get you in those SERPs. If the ccTLD is not .uk and your site is not hosted in the UK, then your pages don't make it in those SERPs.
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[mole]

uk.com has been around for ages and a lot of (confused) surfers believe it to be a real UK TLD.

Personally I'd use it only if I was completely stuffed for getting a decent UK domain name any other way.

gb.com & eu.com - even less often used than uk.com

[Shak]

not forgetting certain destinations go further than UK hosting, and ONLY show .co.uk and org.uk results for "pages from UK"

Shak