Change Expiring policy deadline 12th September

[Stephen]

Nominet new registrar agreement consultation comes at an end on 12th September

http://www.nominet.org.uk/how-participate/policy-development/current-policy-discussions-and-consultations/review-uk-registrar

Also you may consider signing up at http://expiry.org.uk/ with the online petition which also provides some information of what the changes may mean to drop catching.

This clause will therefore allow registrars to take control and taste traffic on a customers expired domain from day 30 of expiry and auction it from day 90 of expiry. The bigger the registrar the more expired domains they will have expiring and inturn the bigger the revenue stream. This will leave smaller registrars with very limited access to expired domains (nothing of value) and will put so called “drop catchers” out of business.

 

[Retired_Member38]

Why should anyone care?

A domain goes out of use either deliberately or by accident, someone else takes ownership then its sold on from there.

Why would it matter whether they buy it from a drop catcher or a domain registrar? The only people I see caring are drop catchers.

 

[SamSam is verified member.]

Nominet new registrar agreement consultation comes at an end on 12th September

http://www.nominet.org.uk/how-parti...ussions-and-consultations/review-uk-registrar

Also you may consider signing up at http://expiry.org.uk/ with the online petition which also provides some information of what the changes may mean to drop catching.

Thanks for the reminder stephen keep up the good work !

 

[Brassneck]

There is a phrase on the expiry.org.uk website which says "At present then there is a level playing field and expired .uk domain names become available on a first come first serve basis"

Do you really believe that? A few very skilled drop catchers have always mopped up anything of worth and really there is very little left worth catching. I don't think it's ever been a level playing field and I am sure drop catching has p*ssed a lot of people off.

One reason why I actually look forward to a different model to drop catching is that the big registrars might actually put some life into the secondary market as people begin to find it normal to buy domains (via auctions?) as they become available in the secondary market.