Re: [ga] Urgent: questions for ICANN Board Candidates

["L Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

William, are you assuming that if the ccTLD were re-delegated in 
all countries, that the registry would turn over the database?  They 
are not all under contract and have obligation to do so.  The new 
delegation would have to recreate the database and provide new 
TLd servers.  I would say that it would not be a simple transition in 
many cases.

On 8 Sep 2001, at 13:24, William X Walsh wrote:

> Saturday, Saturday, September 08, 2001, 11:55:41 AM, Paul Cotton
> wrote: > Only someone who has no real knowledge of UK internet usage
> would make such > a crass statement.  .uk is not a novelty namespace
> in the UK, it is widely > adopted and actively used in preference to
> gtld's for many companies > including banks etc.
> 
> > To say that if .uk was redelegated the UK ISP's would ignore Nominet
> > is mind numbingly stupid.  The user outrage at not being able to
> > access their online bank accounts etc would indeed lead to ISP's
> > ensuring their service resolved Nominets .uk namespace - to do
> > otherwise would be commercial suicide for the ISP.
> 
> This presumes that in a redelegation registrants lose their domain
> name.
> 
> That is not the case, it never has been.
> 
> The .au name holders are not in danger of losing their registrations
> simple because the domain has been forcefully redelegated, just as one
> example.
> 
> Everyone would still resolve their names, the suggestion that they
> would somehow not be able to access things like their bank account is
> nothing but informed argument, or at worst and attempt to use alarmist
> rhetoric to prevent people from seeing that it really is this simple.
> 
> 
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> Best regards,
> William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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