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I agree with the point you are making and there is a principle at stake here - namely that sweeping changes are being brought about with as your figures show a pathetically inadequate consultation. Before the V3 announcement, the domain community was very worried that Nominet were dead intent on pushing this through, having seen them resurrect the idea after a hard fight. Many felt that nothing could be done to stop them. I am sure most of the opposition came from the domainer community, and I have no doubt that the V3 proposal was designed to appease that group. Most domainers are looking at it from their own selfish perspective rather than on the principle of how the process has been conducted. The vast majority of .co.uk registrants were never directly consulted and since these changes will affect them they should have been. I would think most .co.uk registrants are still unaware of the .uk plan and OK some safeguards have been promised such as the 5 year hold on the equivalent .uk, but the point is they have not been consulted or granted consent and Nominet should be our administrator, our servant, not our master.
Spot on. Great way of putting it - thanks.
I may however have been a little harsh on Edwin above (apologies Edwin) - he's done a lot of work on this and may have just been sick of it all by version three (as many of us were). Also having a consultation on version three wouldn't have hurt even if it has already been decided to do it that way - we are now in limbo until at least February (maybe even May) - in this three month period a comment period (on version 3) could have been ran by Nominet - even if it changed nothing the policy process would have been followed not ignored.
Had Nominet gone straight to the final draft at outset this would probably have gone through much easier. The reason so many were up in arms was because the first consultation was an affront to current co.uk owners.
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The mistakes were made earlier in the process, not at the end as some are trying to suggest.
I often wonder what would have happened if Nominet had came out with version three first.... they after all must have had all the options on the table from the beginning?
I think we would have seen a much greater backlash from the Trademark / Legal community if they had gone out with version three first? As the preferred TM version came out first and was defeated by the majority of responses to the whole consultation itself, they now have no comeback on version three. That's why I think it was important to have another consultation on version three so when .uk does go live Nominet could have shown everyone had been consulted again.