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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."
Me and my wife own the domain
Dont you think that the UK Parliament implicitly owns the domain www.parliament.uk because they've been maintaining before 1996.
If they haven't registered it and nobody else has either, so nobody else is more apt to acquire it.
And I'm sure lots of people want it. I don't have a receipt for that motherboard I bought in 1998. Maybe somebody else owns it even though I've been using it for the past 5 years. That reminds me, i need to buy a new motherboard.
Must be a slow news day.
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".
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.