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UK Parliament Domain Without Registrar

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the heller-uses-easydns dept.

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."

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  1. Actually... by tenjah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Me and my wife own the domain

  2. Re: www.whitehouse.gov by jc42 · · Score: 0, Redundant

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

    Yeah, but check out www.whitehouse.org or www.whitehouse.net. Then there's www.whitehouse.com, which you'd expect to be the government office that sells political favors, but isn't that at all.

    I wonder how long before the gummint cracks down on these. This might be fun to watch. I expect they have already tried, but like the trademark on "windows", "white house" is a rather generic term. I mean, half the people in my neighborhood live in a white house. So do lots of people in the US government, for that matter.

    The main problem here, as I see it, is that the main article was badly misclassified. It should have been "It's funny; laugh".

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