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Call for domain name code of practice
21/11/2002
UK domain name outfit Internetters has called on Nominet UK to take the "moral high ground" and set up and fund a code of practice in a bid to stamp out cowboy domain sellers.
Internetters claims the UK domain name industry must police itself or face the threat of external regulation.
This latest call for an industry-wide code of practice follows a warning from Nominet UK earlier this week in which it named and shamed a company for using sales tactics that "pressurised" people into buying domains.
Internetters claims that one-off warnings such as this aren't enough and wants Nominet UK - the national Registry for all domain names ending .uk - to take a lead, even if this means that the cost of buying a domain increases for end users.
In a statement, Internetters said that Nominet's naming and shaming gives the "misconception that the public can rely on Nominet as a governing body which oversees citizen's interests by highlighting all dubious .uk domain name practices - be warned, this is not the case."
Nominet UK's MD, Lesley Cowley, rejected the claims saying that a code of practice just among domain registrars was just "not feasible".
More at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28227.html
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