----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ Goodwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:43 PM Subject: Re: .UK questions
> At 11:24 AM 1/23/2004, Colin Viebrock wrote: > >Just wanted to confirm some info on .UK domains: > > > >1) minimum term on new registrations is still 2 years? > > Yes to #1. I don't know about the other two. > > One interesting thing to note is that your client (the registrant) will get > mail directly from Nominet with a certificate of registration and some > forms for changing their address and contact info. One of our clients was > very confused when they first received the papers and it took a minute to > convince them that they were in fact the registrant and had their names for > 2 years. > > So if you have a client who is new to .UK, you may want to let them know > they'll get a certificate and some (useless?) forms in the mail from the > registry. Also if they fail to renew they will get an invoice in the post asking them to contact Tucows or pay Nominet �80 directly. This can be confusing and I would recommend you put something abou tthis on your web site so you can point them to it if/when it happens for an explanation. By the way if there are any Nominet TAG holders on this list I am standing for election to the Policy Advisory Board. You can read my election statement here: http://www.hudson.nu/nominet/ The period of 2 years was discussed at a recent members meeting. The reason for 2 years is (apparently) that this is the average life of a UK business. Therefore if registrations of longer than 2 years were permitted a domain might not come back into the pool for registration by someone else even though the original registrant was no longer in business. I am in favour of having 1 to 10 year registration options with one year being the same cost price as 2 years but allowing us to discount it because we are only having to provide services and management for one year. I get the feeling that Nominet are more open to discussing this issue than they have bene in the past so watch this space. Regards Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net ------------------------------------------------
