grandin

I don't think the PAB members are clowns and I have been told repeatedly that the most respected bodies on the PAB are only there to observe...I put a complaint to the DTI representative and he seemed to misdirect my complaint so I went to my MP....that DTI representative has now been replaced...the Patent Office comes under the DTI and they issue Trade Marks. AND Trading Standards come under the DTI and they deal with unfair contracts....

Maybe no one has clue and maybe we will all remain clowns until we are able to make informed decisions based on a solid foundation of knowledge

I am hoping that a Nominet expert can shed some light on some importnant issues soooon

Lee

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GWing

If nominet thing that it's right for domainers to trust there £20,000 - £30,000 names to the Royal mail delivering a single letter, they are absolutley bonkers.

Personally if anyone suffers from this, I'll contribute to whatever legal fees they need to challenge it.

Nominet's lost the plot

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retired_member11

If this proposal goes ahead the Complaint MUST be sent by Nominet to the Respondent by recorded delivery. Anything else would be grossly unfair. An assumption of receipt just isn't right.

Presently a DRS Complaint remains confidential unless an Expert is appointed. Perhaps this should change and a list of Complaints be published on Nominet's website; only the domain name, no other details.

stevebrowne

But for those of us who keep our domain details up to date, with valid postals and email addresses, why is there an issue?

If the turnaround time is maybe slightly longer to cope with overseas registrants, then that might help I suppose, and maybe even a new type of suspended, whereby instaed of going straight to the complainer it goes to a status where a page is displayed for 28 days warning of what is due to happen. Gives the original owner a kick up the butt to do something before it gets taken away!

I will need to check ALL my domains have the correct details! I'm pretty sure they all do, but better safe than sorry!

Now, wheres my list of domains with no contact details...

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GWing

Steve,

Believe me mate, the Royal Mail are useless in certain cases. I use them to send out items everyday. First class recorded items taking 8 days to arrive, some go missing. They let random people stood near the property sign for things. I'd hate to have a £20,000 domain name riding on their competance, not that I have one, unfortunatley

guys with good domain names are just going to be writing replys to this junk hijacking attempts for most of their weeks.

How many attempts can be made against one domain name, if Mr A makes an attempt against domain.co.uk and the registrant defends it, what if Mr B makes an attempt? How many times will this go on?

it's like me saying that a guy has a nice car on his drive and hasn't used it for a few weeks. That it should be handed over to me because I'd use it better, how stupid is that!

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Also people might start having a pop at names they otherwise would have no chance of winning in a full DRS. For example I could stick ones in for: andrew.co.uk whois.co.uk bennett.co.uk

I wonder how many Nominet would actually accept a DRS on and how many they would actually default transfer......What happens when the name to be transferred is owned by a multinational company with millions of pounds to spend on legal fees? Instead of your average cybersquatter http://www.nic.uk/disputes/drs/decisions/3cases/

Finally you would think Nominet would have learn't from their apology on bounce.co.uk http://www.nic.uk/digitalAssets/10081_bounce_appeal.pdf

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Reddy

If/When the new rules come into force, how many speculative DRS submissions do you think Nominet will start receiving for names like casino .co.uk, poker .co.uk, sex .co.uk ...?

Would you risk £10 to be in with a chance of a default judgement for such a premium name? Spectulators will be queuing up to throw tenners at Nominet, just to be in with a shot of a 6-figure domain.

As GWing said, if you were the Registrant of say poker .co.uk, you could be getting DRS submissions every other week, which you would 'have' to response to - no matter how daft or unsubstantiated they are. And if just one of those letters from Nominet were to go astray!

It's not just a matter of keeping contact details up to date, you will need to be ready to defend your domains time and time again, and again.

Just another thought. What if you discover a Registrant has recently died? You could submit DRS's for all his best domains. Chances are no one will response in time, so you pay the £200 each for the default transfers.

Incidentally, I assume DRS submissions will be on a FCFS basis, so those nearest to Oxford and with the fastest legs will be able to get their DRS submissions in first? Maybe DRS Catcher companies will start up in the same way we now have drop catcher companies?

tifosi

Don't know whether to laugh or cry...

I don't know which is more disturbing. This or the the 'project waitlist' people cranking up the solution looking for a problem.

S

retired_member12

I knew all that training would come in useful one day. This is my destiny to make some money from the domain name sector.

One professional hitman for hire. PM for a quotation!

GWing

I'm going to make a script to auto check all your names in the obituaries.

Soon as one of you drops (always something dropping isn't there), your next of kin will have 28 days to bury you, finish grieving and then get down to the solicitors for the reading of the will. Then reply to Nominet, all in under 28 days.

I was looking for precedents of this happening and found that New Labour has suggested it in 2004, they stated that legal provisions would be made for vacant houses to be compulsory purchased by local authority's and made available to local people on the housing list.

They got laughed out at the white paper stage of parliament, it was decided it was unlawful and legal challenges would be endless.

Thing is, those plans got laughed out and they were still planning on giving the original owner the market value for their property. Nominet are not going to give you any kind of compensation.

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