UK Parliament Domain Without Registrar

asobala writes "According to this story at The Register, the UK parliament is using the domain www.parliament.uk. It's a top-level domain because it was registered before August 1996, before Nominet handled .uk domains. But since there is no registrar, they can't prove that they own it."

Comments

Of course...

[mikeophile]

It is well known that parliament.uk is rightfully the property of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic.

I own slashdot.org

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I own slashdot.org, I registered it back in 1954 before Al Gore invented the internet. I DEMAND you hand the domain over to me!!

Thanks to slashdot...

[Anonymous Coward]

soon they won't even be able to prove it exists.

Let's not be hasty...

[The Bungi]

...and Slashdot the British parliament, mmmkay?

We don't want the Royal Marines raiding the VA Software headquarters looking for alleged terrorists Abdul Hemos and the commander of the cell, Hashish Taco.

OK, I accept the challenge.

[caluml]

In fact, no one runs parliament.uk and it doesn't officially exist. OK, go on, you twisted my arm. For a mere £78k per annum, and a lifetime seat in the House of Lords, I'll oversee the running of this tld.

Obviously, I'll need a 155Mb pipe, and all the leggy blondes I can eat. (So to speak.) Oh, and a nice quiet office somewhere :)

Re:no, somebody else owns it. duh.

[zCyl]

Even more obvious, maybe the UK parliament owns the domain because they ARE the UK parliament?

True. That's the same reason that the US Whitehouse owns www.whitehouse.com

Re:Possession

[damiam]

possession is 9/10 of the law

Yes, but Parliament is 10/10 of the law, and it's not helping them. Thawte is a private company, and it can set whatever qualifications it wants for a cert.