[Chapter-delegates] ISOC England Chapter Statement regarding direct.uk consultation

[Jordi Iparraguirre]

Happy 2013 to you all!

At least 3 ccTLDS in Latinamerica went through a similar process in 2012.
Nowadays .gt, .sv and .uy are also offering registration at the 2nd
level (as well as at the 3rd one)
All getting ready before the new gTLDs arrive :-)

rgds,
jordi

2013/1/8 Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info>:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
>
>> Dear ISOC Chapter leaders,
>>
>> Nominet has recently conducted a consultation on a proposal involving
>> registration of domains directly at the second level, thus changing the
>> current system of having a limited second level set of domains and
>> allowing registration at third level.
>
> OMG. Every three-level registry is facing this challenge at some point.
>
> It reminds me the old NASK (.pl CCTLD) policy to have .com.pl, .edu.pl
> etc. for pretty much everyone and .pl only if you could demonstrate
> you have at least three locations in the country connected by leased
> lines.
>
> Eventually somewhere in 1997 they gave up and they started to sign
> up everyone under .pl (it was only more expensive) - and today
> third-level domains (.org.pl, .com.pl...) are more expensive than
> .pl because of the lower market interest.
>
> Is Nominet going back to pre-1995 policies where domain name
> registries wanted to be alfas and omegas deciding how the
> domain name system looked like? (I remeber checking zone
> syntax and nameservers by hand by registry staff etc.).
>
> My guess is just to offer some "added value" (whatever it might be)
> to the customers right now to get the money twice from pretty
> much everyone. After some time, as it happens with certificate
> authorities, we will see that everything gets relaxed and
> direct .uk registrations will be open to everyone the same way
> as all others are. Current proposal is just a blabla to try to
> contain the imminent land grab I suppose. Why not call it
> a "sunrise period" and stop pretending they are in control.
>
> //Marcin
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