Comments on: UK Bill Would Regulate Domain Name Registries

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:05:40 +0000

The bill is worse than that. It allows the government to take over and regulate any ISP which offers domain name services. Read it carefully.

By: stu

stu — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:56:49 +0000

Ahh ther good old corupt U.K goverment back again,lets just hope there is a revolution sooner rather than later.

By: geetarchurchy

geetarchurchy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:54:55 +0000

RT @amayfield: Digital Economy bill could see UK govt take .uk domains http://digg.com/u1GyrR & http://digg.com/u1Gyrc via @justinhayward

By: Antony

Antony — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:47:17 +0000

Digital Economy bill could see UK govt take over .uk domains http://digg.com/u1GyrR and http://digg.com/u1Gyrc (via @justinhayward)

By: chandan

chandan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:08 +0000

may be they want to auction expired domains soon after seeing responses :p

By: pitbullstew

pitbullstew — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:39:22 +0000

I keep thinking about the lines in Black Cross…
“You don’t b’lieve nothin’,” roared the white man’s preacher.
“Oh yes Ah does,” said old Hezikiah,
“Ah b’lieve that a man’s beholden to his neighbahs
Widout de hope of Heaven or de fear o’ hell’s fiah.”

There’s a lot of good ways for a man to be wicked…
They hung Hezikiah as high as a pidgeon,
And the nice folks around said, “He had it comin’
‘Cause the son-of-a-bitch didn’t have no religion!”
And how in domaining there are lots of off color business going on and in place of religion as referenced above?
We substitute it with law when it comes to the out of control conduct we know is going on?
To be sure this represents a new age revenue source for gvt, the jig is up.
Pay the piper.

By: Marg

Marg — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:41:59 +0000

What do they mean by this? “registering and occupying a domain name that might reasonably belong to somebody else”? Who decides who names might or might not “belong” to? If that name “belonged” to someone else, why didn’t they register it in the first place?

The only part of this announcement I have any sympathy with, is the stated wish not to have innocent UK citizens suckered into thinking a site is UK-based when it is not. If that is a genuine concern, then surely this can be alleviated by residency requirements to register co.uk domains.