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We are keenly aware of the trust you place in us, and our responsibility to protect your privacy. As part of this responsibility, we let you know what information we collect using cookies and similar technologies when you use our websites, why we collect it and how we use it to improve your experience.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when a website is loaded on your browser. Cookies can help make a website function properly, make it more secure and provide a better user experience. They can also help the website operator understand how the website is used and how it can be improved.
How do Nominet use cookies?
Some of the cookies we use on this website are necessary for enabling basic website functions (necessary cookies) and some of them help us analyse how you use this website, store your preferences and provide you with relevant content (optional cookies).
Types of cookies we use on this website
Miscellaneous cookies, pixels and scripts
| Name | Description | Duration | Type | Domain |
| MUID | Bing sets this cookie to recognize unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. | 1 year 24 days | Advertisement | .bing.com |
| _fbp | This cookie is set by Meta to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. | 3 months | Advertisement | .theukdomain.uk |
| IDE | This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | 1 year | Advertisement | .doubleclick.net |
| test_cookie | The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. | 1 day | Advertisement | .doubleclick.net |
| Facebook pixel | Tracking pixel | n/a | Analytics | |
| __cf_bm | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | 30 minutes | Functional | .hubspot.com |
| __hs_initial_opt_in | This cookie is used by HubSpot to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode. | 1 week | Functional | .theukdomain.uk |
| __hs_opt_out | This cookie is used by the HubSpot opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. This cookie is set when a website gives visitors the choice to opt-out of cookies. | 6 months | Functional | .theukdomain.uk |
| __hssc | This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. | 30 minutes | Functional | .theukdomain.uk |
| __hstc | To store time of visit. | 13 months | Marketing | .theukdomain.uk |
| hubspotutk | This cookie is used by Hubspot to store and track a visitor’s identity. | 13 months | Marketing | .theukdomain.uk |
| _uetsid | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. | 1 day | Performance | .theukdomain.uk |
| _uetvid | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. | 1 year | Performance | .theukdomain.uk |
Measuring our website usage – Google Analytics
We only use first-party Google Analytics cookies to track anonymous usage statistics and do not collect any personal information that can be used to identify you. This helps us analyse data about webpage usage and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics sets the following first-party cookies:
| Name | Description | Duration | Type | Domain |
| _ga | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 2 years | Analytics | .theukdomain.uk |
| _gaexp | Used to determine a user’s inclusion in an experiment and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in. | 1 month 10 days | Analytics | .theukdomain.uk |
| _ga_V412MEFJM3 | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 2 years | Analytics | .theukdomain.uk |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services | 3 months | Analytics | .theukdomain.uk |
| _gid | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day | Analytics | .theukdomain.uk |
| _gat_UA-30050874-1 | A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. | 1 minute | Performance | .theukdomain.uk |
| _gcl_aw | Google Ads. To provide ad delivery or retargeting. | 90 days | Marketing | .theukdomain.ukMeasuring our website usage – Google Analytics We only use first-party Google Analytics cookies to track anonymous usage statistics and do not collect any personal information that can be used to identify you. This helps us analyse data about webpage usage and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data. Google Analytics sets the following first-party cookies: |
Improving our website layout – Hotjar
In addition to Google Analytics we also use Hotjar to track anonymous usage in the form of heatmaps and user journeys, as before we do not collect any personal information that can be used to identify you. This helps us identify where we can improve our website layout in order to help users find the information they’re looking for.
Hotjar sets the following first-party cookies:
| Name | Description | Duration | Type | Domain |
| _hjFirstSeen | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. | 30 minutes | Analytics | .theukdomain.uk |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site’s daily session limit. | 2 minutes | Analytics | .theukdomain.uk |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site’s pageview limit. | 2 minutes | Analytics | .theukdomain.uk |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | 30 minutes | Analytics | .theukdomain.uk |
| _hjSession_416001 | Cookie | 30 minutes | Other | .theukdomain.uk |
| _hjSessionUser_416001 | To store a unique user ID. | 1 year | Other | .theukdomain.uk |
Running our sites – session cookies
To run our sites we use “session cookies”. These cookies are used to remember selections and preferences that you’ve already made or information that you’ve already given. Certain parts of our sites will not work if cookies cannot be set (for example if you set your browser to refuse all cookies).
| Name | Description | Duration | Type | Domain |
| __hssrc | To store a unique session ID | Session | Functional | .theukdomain.uk |
Managing your cookie preferences
Necessary cookies will be stored on your browser by default, without requiring your consent, whereas optional cookies will only be stored in your browser with your prior consent.
You can give or withhold consent to optional cookies using our cookie consent banner, which enables you to accept all optional cookies, reject all optional cookies or consent to some, but not all, optional cookies.
You will be presented with our cookie consent banner the first time you visit this website and at yearly intervals following your initial visit.
You can also change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the cookie consent preference button at the bottom left corner of every page on this website. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences with immediate effect.
In addition to this, you can change the settings of your browser to block and delete cookies used by websites. Listed below are links to support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers:
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
If you use a web browser not listed above, please visit your browser’s official support documents.
Further information on cookies
To learn more about cookies, visit http://aboutcookies.org/ or https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
For information regarding current UK law on cookies visit the ICO’s website.
This notice was last updated in September 2025.