[governance] privatising ccTLDs

[Roland Perry]

In message <4BBCDF42.1000902 at cafonso.ca>, at 16:38:42 on Wed, 7 Apr 
2010, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> writes

>>> Not sure about any restrictions in Nominet (could not find specific
>>> policy requirements in their Web site), but DENIC requires a legal
>>> German address
>>
>> Nominet has no restriction. Which is quite useful if you are a Brit who
>> has moved overseas and want to keep your domain name.
>
>This is not the point -- of course Brazilians and Canadians can take a
>.br or .ca even if they live abroad, but they have to show up proof of
>their citizenship. Is this the same for .uk?

Neither citizenship or residence is a requirement for .uk

My point about moving overseas would be the need (if the German model 
was adopted) to keep an address in the UK to serve documents.

>> There are even a few economies where the cctld registry/operator is
>> "overseas", but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
>
>Yes, very small economies as far as I know...

One is very large, in terms of land mass!
-- 
Roland Perry
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.cpsr.org
To be removed from the list, send any message to:
     governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org

For all list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t