Nominet broke their own rules?

[cm1975]

I don't know if this has been discussed in the last few years so .....

I was looking through some old posts discussing me.uk domains. There was a comment back in 2005 that not even Nominet had registered nominet.me.uk. A tongue-in-cheek reply said they would be breaking their own rules if they did.

So as a limited company did they break their rules by registering it in 2007, or is there a loophole that allows them to do so?

 

[doodlebug]

Surely they could stick it on there reserve list ?

 

[retired_member12]

I don't know if this has been discussed in the last few years so .....

I was looking through some old posts discussing me.uk domains. There was a comment back in 2005 that not even Nominet had registered nominet.me.uk. A tongue-in-cheek reply said they would be breaking their own rules if they did.

So as a limited company did they break their rules by registering it in 2007, or is there a loophole that allows them to do so?

No, they didn't break their own rules. There's a convenient little clause in the rules for registering .me.uks, which allows a limited company to be the registrant 'by aquisition', either DRS, legal threat, etc. Nominet.me.uk was initially registered by an individual, and it was then transferred (via a route unknown) to Nominet UK. They can't go on to use it, but they can be the registrant in this way.

The rules are a joke for .me.uk, given that limited companies still can have a call on a domain name which is over & above an individual.

 

[jasman]

Surely it's easy to get around anyway. A director of a limited company could register a .me.uk in his own name and allow his company to provide the website content for his domain