Neil Brown

1 month ago • •

Neil Brown
1 month ago • •

New regulations set out circumstances in which the Secretary of State can intervene in the running of internet domain registries for UK-related domains

This somewhat lengthy blogpost about The Internet Domain Registry (Prescribed Practices and Prescribed Requirements) Regulations 2024 is probably of most interest to people running domain registries, and domain registrars, for .uk, .scot, .wales., .cymru, and .london.

To be honest, until yesterday, I had no idea that the Secretary of State had these kind of powers...

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New regulations set out circumstances in which the Secretary of State can intervene in the running of internet domain registries for UK-related domains

Background The Secretary of State has powers to interfere with / intervene in the running of internet domain registries for “UK-related” domains.

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in reply to Neil Brown • 1 month ago • •

FYI, you've a typo in your Markdown in the first link.

On Tuesday, [following a consultation](https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/powers-in-relation-to-uk-related- domain-name-registries), new regulations - The Internet Domain Registry (Prescribed Practices and Prescribed Requirements) Regulations 2024 - was published, to do exactly that.

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Alexandra Lanes

in reply to Neil Brown • 1 month ago •

@Neil Brown Idly wondering if .io is "UK-related" under s.124O(8) of CA2003 - "the last element of its name is likely to cause users of the internet, or a class of such users, to believe that the domain and its sub-domains are connected with the United Kingdom"

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Bruno Girin

in reply to Neil Brown • 1 month ago • •

can you bypass this if you were to get a .manchester top level domain?

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Bruno Girin

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cool, I'm sure nobody will register .piggate just to see if someone wants to make the case that this is obviously UK related.

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Phil Ashby :marmite: 🍵

in reply to Neil Brown • 1 month ago • •

Wondering how this applies to registries that provide / manage UK domains but are themselves outside the UK (or do they *have* to have a UK subsidiary to trade?). Those powers seem unlikely to work with say Microsoft or Amazon!