.net.uk

[aqls]

Nominet is opening up .net.uk up for discussion
http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=2670

Do you think isps could perhaps, right now, take up all the good .net.uk domains on the risk that the market will be opened up in a few months time?

-aqls-

 

[fred]

Do you think isps could perhaps, right now, take up all the good .net.uk domains on the risk that the market will be opened up in a few months time?

-aqls-

No...

http://www.nominet.org.uk/registrants/legal/rules/

11.2.2. Registrants in the .net.uk SLD are required to be Internet Service Providers. Notwithstanding the Rules, no Domain Name shall be registered in this SLD unless, in our reasonable opinion, the applicant is an Internet Service Provider and the Domain Name registered is the same as or a similar variant of the applicant's name.

 

[aqls]

Takes £45 to get a company name - say mesothelioma networks isp limited.

The hard part is getting to be listed as a local IP address registry, or be listed as one - hard because I don't know enough about it and who to talk to or pay.

Quote same Nominet page:
" is listed as a local internet protocol (IP) address registry with a regional IP address registry; or
has an Autonomous System containing hosts in the United Kingdom that is listed with a regional IP address registry and that is continuously or at all reasonable times reachable from major Internet exchange points."

It can't be *that* hard ?

-aqls-

 

[aqls]

Looks like it will cost upwards of £1,500 plus admin fee of £1000 plus sign up fee of £2000 with no guarantees of getting being local IP registry or at least no guarantee of getting any ip addresses allocated.

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/charging.html

More information on:

http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ip-addresses.htm

-aqls-