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25th birthday celebrations for .uk domain names<BR>
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The .uk domain name, used by business websites across Britain, is celebrating its 25th anniversary.<BR><BR>Nominet reports that over 8.5 million web addresses have been registered with domain name consultancies using the extension since it was created in 1985.<BR><BR>The firm found that 77 per cent of consumers prefer to use a .uk domain than the .com alterative.<BR><BR>It was first used some six years before the world's first website was created by CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research – in 1991.<BR><BR>Earlier this year, .com also celebrated its quarter anniversary, having been created in March 1985, some four months before the UK country code.<BR><BR>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is currently in the process of allowing companies to register their own generic top-level domains.<BR><BR>
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