5 day .uk rights drop?

[Whois-Search]

I took this photo of a slide at the Nominet conference on Thursday:

http://twitter.com/whois_search/status/1008744731898204160

Basically it says:

Nominet are to release the remaining .uk rights over a 5 day period (1st July - 5th July 2019).

Between now and then:

1) There will be consultation on “drop lists” for the whole .uk family not just the .uk rights drop.

2) If there are 3.5 million rights left in .uk they are going to look to get that down dramatically over the next year with a another promotion (give them away free?).

3) Nominet are to hire more DRS experts

 

[Edwin]

Thanks, v informative.

Gosh, it’s tricky. 3.5 million unclaimed .uk backs up the theory that nobody cares about the extension. On the other hand, very very good .uk are probably going to be worth a few bob regardless. Just a case of being suitably choosy, and getting suitably lucky...

One obvious winner: those offering outsourced drop catch services to tag-holders! Unless Nominet cook something up to capture the value for themselves eg by holding auctions or similar.

 

[alex]

They also said they want to work with portfolio holders who intend to exercise their rights all in one go on the last day, but may have overlooked the fact Nominet offers a credit facility that may be reached. I'm sure many may have overlooked the fact they may not have enough credit to register the .uk's in one go.

 

[getmein]

Unless Nominet cook something up to capture the value for themselves eg by holding auctions or similar.

I'm sure they'd love the revenue, but easy to see how it could go catastrophically wrong with a huge loss of reputation if they were involved and weren't very careful about what they did.

The last set of auctions they ran, don't indicate that they would be able to deliver an auction process at this scale. I presume they would also want to have some sort of TM filtering process for names they 'might' be interested in auctioning - again the scale suggests that they would struggle.

 

[TheSide]

I'm sure many may have overlooked the fact they may not have enough credit to register the .uk's in one go.

I'm certainly one of them... Sorry, WAS one of them

 

[monaghan]

2) If there are 3.5 million rights left in .uk they are going to look to get that down dramatically over the next year with a another promotion (give them away free?).

Guess giving them away gets round the issue of all those nasty secondary market people catching the good ones

 

[tocku]

Guess giving them away gets round the issue of all those nasty secondary market people catching the good ones

Either that, or just introduces 3.5 million extra resellers into the nasty secondary market ;-)

Established .co.uk owners with no use for a .uk are just going to see the extension as extortion or a tax on online business.

Which, let's face it, it is.