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The great big .uk Rights of Registration thread!

Aaah. Okay. They did take it down. Thank you. Appreciated.

So is tommorow testbed G-M ?
The live environment opens tomorrow (ror-epp.nominet.org.uk I think) but all it will be good for is testing your connection as all domains pre-loaded to it will be "reversed by Nominet". The current testbed will stay live all week.
 
The live environment opens tomorrow (ror-epp.nominet.org.uk I think) but all it will be good for is testing your connection as all domains pre-loaded to it will be "reversed by Nominet". The current testbed will stay live all week.

Are they doing a test drop on the testbed or am I mistaken? At 2 oclock i mean
 
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The first post-release web usage survey of .UK should be interesting. If the launch has gone as planned then most of the .UK sites will redirect to their .co.uk and .com primary sites if they are set up in DNS. If there has been a lot of domaining, then for-sale sites should be higher than usual. The pre-existing registrar land grabs in this kind of situation generally end up on a holding page advertising the registrar's services.

With some other TLD launches, grabs by new registrars set up for the land rush rarely turn into developed sites and they typically end up as one year wonders (dropped in the Junk Dump) unless they can be flipped. The big danger for these new registrars and their money is that ccTLDs don't run on .COM rules when it comes to domaining.

Regards...jmcc
 
If you control 5 tags yourself, and have managed to deposit 90k in each, and nominet don't know you are linked, you have access to 750 *different* registration attempts per minute. That's a lot of outlay and risk though.
 
Current wisdom seems to be that there is no obligation to show the accounts aren't linked.
 
This looks like a clever deception. Nominet get top marks for success of .uk ROR takeup. Large Registrars get almost all the the domains, by free Registration or priority in the dropcatching queue. As a big carrot for the independent hopefuls, many top generic Registrations were delayed until the last minute by brand protection agencies.
 
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Looks like Snapnames might be worth using then... and no upfront cost? The don't provide lots of info so it's hard to tell.
 
As far as I can see, there are pretty much zero bids for even the most attractive generic domains at Snapnames. Admittedly, anyone with any sense is not going to 'bid' there until the last hour, but I suspect that yes, it will be run as a blind auction, because then Snapnames can auction off all the good names they get, regardless of whether one person, two people, or fifty people bid for a name. They could even auction off names that nobody bid for, if they've identified them as worth bidding for. I suppose it depends whether the rubric says that only those who bid before the cut off time can bid in the post-release auction, or whether they just state 'there were multiple bids for this domain, the final auction for this name will end at...' in which case they would be likely to make more money.

Anyone's guess.
 
Anyone had their email yet ?

Just had mine. I've been allocated 9 attempts per minute despite only depositing £500 - have others found that they've had their limits increased?
 

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