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New Brexit Party Misses Out on Domain

April 15, 2019 by Michele Neylon

Nigel Farage’s latest political vehicle The Brexit Party launched last week. However you’ll notice that it’s using a .org domain name.

screenshot of Nigel Farage's new party site
Nigel Farage’s Brexit party is using a .org domain

The exact match .com domain name was snapped up by a group of pro-EU campaigners:

Big day ahead for @Nigel_Farage and his new Brexit Party as he launches his European election campaign. Shame he forgot to register the website. https://t.co/cP6UlkdOMe

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) April 12, 2019
Screenshot of site being used by Anti-Brexit group
The .com domain is being used by a group campaigning against Brexit

TheBrexitParty.com was registered with GoDaddy on October 26th 2018, while the domain Farage’s party is using is TheBrexitParty.org which was registered on January 20th via another GoDaddy registrar (Domain Monster).

Why aren’t they using a .co.uk or a .uk? Both Brexitparty.co.uk, BrexitParty.uk, TheBrexitParty.co.uk and TheBrexitParty.uk are all registered. Some of them were registered as far back as 2017 (BrexitParty.uk)

Of course there are plenty of Brexit related domains still available and others in use for both serious commentary and information, while others are much more flippant.

Filed Under: marketing Tagged With: Brexit, Farage, Politics

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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