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

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Interestingly I've not seen any comment from registrants with active .uk domain intending to jump ship to a gTLD.  

Is there a different view amongst registrants in those South American domains? 



Christian de Larrinaga


On 8 Jan 2013, at 17:31, Jordi Iparraguirre <ipa at josoc.cat> wrote:

> 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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