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11/10/2002 

The second level domain .net.uk may be dead before Christmas due to underuse, thanks to the changing Internet world. 

A recent subcommittee of Nominet's Policy Advisory Board (PAB) concluded that it had outgrown its use and should be shut down to new applicants, with existing domains maintained until renewal, and then removed forever from the Internet. 

That conclusion was not accepted last week by the PAB main committee, and the subcommittee was asked to look again at how the domain could be opened up but chartered so its use remained relevant. However subcommittee chairman Clive Feather remains sceptical. "Just because that was the case with .net [the top-level domain], that doesn't mean it's right," he told us. 

Chairman of the PAB Peter Gradwell told us that it had considered the large volume of feedback that the subcommittee's conclusions had sparked and that it remained "unsure" whether the domain's rules could be changed to become more relevant while remaining strongly chartered. 

It is difficult to see how the subcommittee could reach a different conclusion however. It has argued that thanks to the changing world of network providers and ISPs (where some "ISPs" are no more than branded services), it was almost impossible to define what was an ISP and hence the .net.uk domain has no practical use. 

More at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27563.html