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| Authored by: Wol on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 03:41 PM EST |
imho, as a Brit, the length of time it's been registered is directly related to
bad faith.
As I said in another post, should I be allowed to seize your car just because
you've left it unused on your drive for a couple of years? If the ORIGINAL
REGISTRATION was not in bad faith (and the longer they've held it, (a) the less
likely it is to be bad faith, and (b the harder it is to prove it), then it
makes it harder to prove the current use is bad faith.
Add to this - are you a Brit? Are you speaking from personal understanding of
the culture? I haven't a clue - you're anonymous. Iirc there have been a bunch
of legal cases over domain seizure. Do you remember them because you were there?
What Nominet can do is constrained, as far as I can remember, by a bunch of
legal cases. And Nominet's terms and conditions probably do NOT apply! This
domain is probably old enough to have been registered before Nominet even
existed, and as such, Nominet do not have the authority to impose their own
terms. (Umm ... Nominet date from 1996, so actually python.co.uk was probably
one of the first domains registered through them ...)
So yes, this IS just my opinion. But it's opinion that's informed from being
INSIDE the relevant legal system, and being BOTH on the ground AND interested in
the development of the local internet at the time all this happened - I got my
first home internet connection before python.co.uk was registered, and I was
involved in setting up the Internet for the company I worked for at about that
time, too - probably earlier, actually. Iirc we got a connection from Pipex,
which ceased to exist as such 1995.
Cheers,
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