name.uk?

[tifosi]

According to the bbc today it's now on it's way as part of a 3 month consultaion according to Eleanor Bradley at Nominet.

Firt I've heard of any official statement. As a registrar I've had diddly squat from Nominet regarding this, just the .uk co-marketing announcement last week, which was about promoting .uk as a whole.

Have I missed something?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19767014

UPD: Finally received the non-announce email!

 

[martin-s]

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/general-board/108491-uk-announced-3.html

 

[tifosi]

So I see. Nice of them to involve their registrars!! Or not as the case may be.

Seems the proposal is that they will be geo-restricted. I hope as well if they are made available that they are not transferable i.e. not available for resale. If they do appear - and I really think it would be a mistake and a massive dilution of the .uk brand - then they should almost be like the pre-nominet domains where some kind of verification is required.

 

[monaghan]

Just got something via nom-announce

 

[Edwin]

If at all possible, it would be best to keep comments on the thread linked in post 2 of this one, otherwise the info's going to get quickly fragmented (or move the stuff from there to here).

 

[julian]

So when can we expect to see all those greedy domainers flapping to dump the large portfolios they could have sold for 10x more in the last 5 years than they could ever get now.. It's gunna be a bloodbath..