Tim Worstall

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• 1 DWL // Oct 29, 2008 at 5:51 pm

  BERR in ‘.co.uk’ domain power grab.

  There goes UK internet independence!

• 2 DWL // Oct 29, 2008 at 5:52 pm

  See:

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/29/berr_nominet/

• 3 Lorenzo // Oct 29, 2008 at 9:28 pm

  Don’t really know but I think Nominet sell most of their domain names in bulk on sale as needed by hundreds of other ISPs, so millions of web space renters/url buyers who would no longer be able to afford or would go abroad to purchase their URLs. Therefore a Government take over of Nominet would end up with a business with no customers. The current ISPs would gather together with their loss of custom threatened and would do great damage to that government, considering the bulk of British business also relies on the same source for their Internet presence, they too would join forces with such power the government would collapse.

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