On 10th June 2014, the new .UK TLD officially launches and becomes available for anyone to register.

We already added support for .UK registrations to WHMCS and so in order to begin taking orders for this new TLD in WHMCS, on the day of the launch you will need to do two things:

1. Add the TLD along with your desired pricing in Setup > Domain Pricing
2. Add a new WHOIS Server Definition to the default WHOIS Servers list shipped with WHMCS. To do this, you need to open the /includes/whoisservers.php file with a text editor and add the following line to the bottom of the file:

[indent].uk|whois.nic.uk|No match[/indent]

If you need any assistance completing the above, please contact our support team and they'll be happy to assist you.

Further information can be found @ www.dotuklaunch.co.uk

Note: Nominet have reserved the .uk domains for any existing UK domain holders who have a .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .net.uk, .ltd.uk or .plc.uk equivalent, and that reservation lasts until 10 June 2019 - so those domains will return as reserved and unavailable during a whois lookup. There is no way at this time for us to be able to provide a reliable solution for those to be ordered by only the eligible persons in an automated way, and therefore orders for those will need to be processed manually by staff using the admin order process.
Additional Updates for Nominet Users

• Last month, Nominet introduced a new data quality policy. We can confirm that WHMCS does perform formatting validation to ensure meeting the data completeness part of the requirements - that is a correctly formatted address, postcode, phone number and email address. Please note that with phone numbers there is no need for end users to enter a country code - WHMCS will automatically prefix this at the time of the registration.
• The forthcoming data validation/verification requirements are harder to overcome in an automated way however and continue to be a topic of internal discussion.
• We would also like to take this opportunity to confirm that we are aware of feedback from some Nominet users in our community regarding the need for additional validation of the extended attributes required to register .UK domain names and this is something that we are working to address.