[ga] Urgent: questions for ICANN Board Candidates

["Paul Cotton" <paulc@joinin.com>]

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> Even without that you would have meltdown.  ICANN for example could
> try and take .uk away from Nominet but with hundreds of ISPs in the UK
> all using Nominet they would beyond doubt all continue to recognise
> Nominet.

Not if there was a new delegate.  The ISPs would use the one in the
root that has the most exposure, and that would still be ICANN.

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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.

Regards

Paul Cotton

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