Domain Abuse Prevention and Disruption 

Nominet aims to continuously improve the security and integrity of .UK through initiatives to better protect online users and deter malicious actors. We are committed to delivering against this expectation and take appropriate measures to keep .UK safe. 

At a glance 

• Protective Holds prevent high-risk registrations of potential domain abuse from causing harm online. 
• Domain lock provides additional protection for registrants to prevent DNS configuration-based takeover of their domains. 
• Active domain abuse can be reported via the Nominet Abuse Reporting Form 
• Nominet provides guidance and context to our domain abuse tackling strategy on a dedicated webpage. 

If you have any questions about these tools or any security or anti-abuse issues, please contact our team by email:  [email protected]