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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."
Innocent till proven guilty
they cant prove they own it because they dont have to, its up to others to prove they don't own it or are not entitled to it
simple
I tried getting out of paying my £90 to nominet UK too, seriously thats how much they charge ro renew domains without a registra, ripp off.
You misunderstand.
Nominet controls the uk. TLD and most of the xxx.uk. SLDs.
Nominet doesn't control parliament.uk. The authoritive name servers for uk. (Nominet's servers) return NS delegation records for parliament.uk., and those servers do not appear to be Nominet servers. Therefore, Parliament controls it's own SLD.
Why this is difficult to deal with I don't know. Nominet should only have to confirm to Thawte that Parliament owns the SLD. Nominet controls uk. and, in turn, the UK government controls parliament.uk., what's the problem here?
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Of course, the question should be why doesn't the UK use its *real* ISO country code GB instead of UK
Well, GB isn't correct. I don't want to argue history & politics, but it is currently the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. And thus, UK.
QED
A better question is would the UK call itself UK if Northern Ireland joined the republic?
>That doesn't count on any court ever existed on earth. If I get your house because you were on vacation for 9 years doesn't make me an owner.
No, that's where you're quite wrong.
Since we're talking about the UK, squatters rule. In fact, this attitude seems to pervail in about 25% of the world (europe). AFAIK, the idea that squatters have no rights at all is part of an EXTREME minority of the world (about 5% of the world's population).
Posession is very much 9/10s of the law. Any lawyer will tell you that, and it's about the only true thing they'll ever tell you.
I had this discussion earlier: What if part of the space shuttle that just blew up landed on your property and you chose to keep it, violating laws against meddling with federal investigations? What powers does the government have to recover it (no, not just put you in jail, but actually recover the item)? And if they do recover it, how much will you be able to sue for?
Posession of anything that isn't outright illegal is 9/10s of the law. That's why there's special "drug war" laws that allow the government to take your drug paraphenalia. Without them, upon release from prison, they'd have to hand your bong/crack pipe back, because they're yours.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
There was a discussion about this on the Nominet mailing lists recently. The most convincing reason is Northern Ireland.
.uk, the powers that be decided on using .uk for British domains, and it's stuck ever since.
The official name of the UK is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. "Great Britain" is the island that includes England, Wales, Scotland and the multitude of little islands, which includes the Isle of Wight (part of England), the Isle of Man (not really part of the UK at all), and doesn't include the Channel Islands (which are closest to Normandy, which the French refer to as the Anglo-Norman islands, but otherwise are as British as the Isle of Man).
"GB" would be a useful code, except that it excludes Northern Ireland, and if you've followed Northern Irish history at all you'll know that the the protestants / Unionists in Northern Ireland are very fond of being part of the UK, and would vehemently protest to the UK being known by a code, "GB", that explicitly did not include them.
So, way before ICANN's official policy to use the ISO country codes for ccTLDs, and even though Ukraine had a strong claim to
Until just a week ago a great example of an inconsistency would heve been the Dutch system where - unless you had a company - you could only register name.123.nl, so you had to have three rediculous numbers before the