Domain Registration Related News
Domain-name body going ahead
June 2005
A challenge to the legitimacy of
Britain's internet address registry, Nominet,
appears unlikely to halt moves to establish a New
Zealand domain name dispute-resolution process
based on the Nominet model.
The original owner of the web address itunes.co.uk,
Benjamin Cohen, is questioning Nominet's authority
to decide domain-name disputes after being told to
hand the address over to Apple Computer.
Cohen has told the Times Online that Nominet has
no statutory authority to decide such arguments.
InternetNZ, which sets the rules for .nz domain
names, also lacks statutory authority. But Rick
Shera, who chairs the InternetNZ committee working
on creation of a New Zealand dispute-resolution
process, says such authority isn't required.
"In New Zealand and, as I understand it, in the
UK, the whole thing is founded on contractual
rights."
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