ug-domain Domain

.ug is the official country domain of Uganda.

The Republic of Uganda extends north of Lake Victoria in Africa over an area comparable to that of Great Britain or Romania. The country is considered to be part of East Africa and currently has about 44 million inhabitants. The capital is Kampala, paid with the Uganda Shilling, the official languages are Swahili and English. Uganda was once a British protectorate.

The .ug domain has been in existence since 8 March 1995 and has been open for international registration since 2004. According to Wikipedia, there were about 10,000 individual domains registered in 2018.

Like any country code domain, it is first of all suitable for persons, companies and organisations with a close relationship to Uganda who want to express, for example, local presence or solidarity through their internet presence. Country domains can have a positive effect on the local ranking of websites.

The domain extension .ug is also interesting for companies that have the German legal form of a so-called Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschränkt) - in short: UG (haftungsbeschränkt). According to the Federal Statistical Office, more than 150,000 such corporations were registered in Germany in 2018.

The legislator created this legal form in 2008 in order to offer a basic alternative to the British Limited (Ltd.), which had previously become increasingly popular. It is actually a variant of the GmbH, which can, however, already be founded with a share capital of only one euro, instead of at least 25,000 euros.

Computer-affine uses of .ug can be thought of for user groups of all kinds (User Group) or web-based manuals and operating instructions (User Guide). User groups are often organized as associations; they are offered an alternative option for their communication platform if the desired name has already been assigned to another ending.

In the creative sector, references to underground culture are obvious. Whether project or shop, lone fighter or group - everything independent and not geared to the masses, avant-garde, even subversive, can express this by choosing the domain .ug.