Nominet to flog short domains More than 2,800 very short UK domain names are to be auctioned for the first time, starting next month. The sale will allow firms known by initials - such as BA - to acquire their most obvious .co.uk address. Nominet, the non-profit that runs the .uk registry, has dropped its policy of witholding very short domains, which …
"Where there is more than one applicant...an auction will be held with profits going to the Nominet Trust, a charity."
After we've deducted our overheads of course. You wouldn't believe the cost of 1s and 0s these days. And we have to pay the staff who polish the domains names, those internets don't clean themselves you know. Plus trebles all round for the managers and marketeers that came up with this money making scheme.
If it looks like job creation and customer gouging, then it is job creation and customer gouging, regardless of the charitable donation at the end of it.
Domain name:
bt.co.uk
Registrant:
British Telecommunications PLC
Registrant type:
UK Public Limited Company, (Company number: 1800000)
Registrant's address:
PP. G555
81 Newgate Street
London
EC1A 7AJ
United Kingdom
Registrar:
British Telecommunications plc [Tag = BTWEBSERVICES]
URL: http://www.bt.com
Relevant dates:
Registered on: before Aug-1996
Renewal date: 30-Aug-2011
Last updated: 02-Nov-2010
I guess this is because they registered it before Nominet existed.
"In the olden days" there was a Naming Committee, and members got domains for free.
BT were on the Naming Committee and applied for bt.co.uk. The members at the time agreed and let it go through. I remember watching it go through.
Good to see the "profits" going to Nominets own charity sigh.
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