Additional urgent help needed

[Edwin]

In addition to needing help to ferret out every last stated "reason" that Nominet has put forward for .uk (see this thread) I am also looking for help to answer general questions.

The point is that I have another 25-odd pages of notes (since yesterday!) that I plan to incorporate into my draft response, and I will be working flat out today writing.

If I have questions about specific points, it would be lovely to think I could pop them on here, and check back a few minutes later and, from the kindness of strangers - and friends - find the answers ready to go.

There is NO obligation on anyone to help me out, I'm just hopeful! Ultimately I will find the answers myself if they're not forthcoming, but I plan to dump them in this thread and leave them for a bit to see if anyone steps up.

Thanks in advance x 1,000,000!

 

[Edwin]

Question 1: exactly how many (% or number) UK domains are registered to non-UK addresses/non-UK entities? Please give me the reference to the Nominet document. Thank you.

 

[Edwin]

Question 2: If anyone has the tools to check this algorithmically, what is the difference (if any) between the following 2 PDFs? (one's linked from the bottom of the consultation introduction page, the other from the side menu)

http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/def...strationInUK–BackgroundAndFurtherDetail_4.pdf

http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/def...istrationInUKBackgroundAndFurtherDetail_5.pdf

 

[Stephen]

non- uk 9%

Question 1: exactly how many (% or number) UK domains are registered to non-UK addresses/non-UK entities? Please give me the reference to the Nominet document. Thank you.

Sorry cannot find a written reference yet.

9% of current UK domains are registered to non UK residents

This is my number which I obtained from a Nominet session.

I will continue looking for a written source.

 

[Edwin]

Sorry cannot find a written reference yet.



This is my number which I obtained from a Nominet session.

I will continue looking for a written source.

Thanks, I'll use that number for now.

 

[Edwin]

From a comparison using Adobe Acrobat pro there is no difference between the 2 pdf documents.

Brilliant. Please consider that question resolved.

 

[Retired_Member39]

Question 1: exactly how many (% or number) UK domains are registered to non-UK addresses/non-UK entities? Please give me the reference to the Nominet document. Thank you.

Had a good search but couldn't find anything. Btw if anyone wants domainnamesuk.org for free pm me.

 

[Edwin]

Question 3: is the following significant in the context of .uk, and if so how? (layman's terms, please - with additional sources would be perfect)
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/66/slides/dnsop-1.pdf

 

[Edwin]

Q3b - is this the same as question 3?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/08/25/cookie_leak_bug_hits_gov_uk/

 

[Edwin]

Last call on Q3, if anyone with the appropriate technical background is reading this thread. I plan to finalise my draft and make it "live" within 24 hours... Here's hoping!

 

[Stephen]

another forum

Last call on Q3, if anyone with the appropriate technical background is reading this thread. I plan to finalise my draft and make it "live" within 24 hours... Here's hoping!

Sorry it is a great area you have discovered and well worth perusing but I do not have knowledge on this area.

I wonder if it is worth considering making a post on another forum which deals with internet security matters, if anybody can post /suggest which ones might provide the answers?

 

[Edwin]

Good idea but probably not in the time I have - I want to get it out there by the weekend. If nobody can help, I guess I'll cobble together a paragraph and leave the detail "to the experts"

 

[Jay Daley]

Question 3: is the following significant in the context of .uk, and if so how? (layman's terms, please - with additional sources would be perfect)
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/66/slides/dnsop-1.pdf

Long solved by http://publicsuffix.org

 

[Edwin]

Long solved by http://publicsuffix.org

Thanks, Jay. Appreciate your input.

From that document, it says:

// uk : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk
// Submitted by registry <[email protected]> 2012-10-02
// and tweaked by us pending further consultation.
*.uk
*.sch.uk
!bl.uk
!british-library.uk
!jet.uk
!mod.uk
!national-library-scotland.uk
!nel.uk
!nic.uk
!nls.uk
!parliament.uk

Does that mean that Nominet tweaked the file the day after the first .uk consultation opened last year, in readiness for an expected .uk rollout?

And why is their entry in that format, where namespaces such as ".in" or ".jp" in which both ".co" and non-".co" forms of the extension exist explicitly list both versions on separate lines, while the UK entry makes no mention of "co.uk"

 

[Jay Daley]

Thanks, Jay. Appreciate your input.
And why is their entry in that format, where namespaces such as ".in" or ".jp" in which both ".co" and non-".co" forms of the extension exist explicitly list both versions on separate lines, while the UK entry makes no mention of "co.uk"

Answering the second part of your question, why it is written as it is.

The syntax is not obvious and people often get confused when they see it for the first time. [highlight]*.tld[/highlight] means that registrations are only permitted at the third level as the asterisk means that a second level must be present and that second level can be anything. This is generally simpler to write and process than listing all the second levels, which would be a list of the form [highlight]co.tld[/highlight] without the asterisk.

Where a TLD allows registrations at the second level the syntax is simply [highlight]tld[/highlight].

The domains beginning with [highlight]![/highlight] are exceptions to the rule.