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

[William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>]

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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