Comments on: Is your .uk online business at risk?

By: Sally Neill

Sally Neill — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:42:36 +0000

It’s quite scary actually, thanks for pointing that out, I have been online for a few years now and finally seem to be having some success so I will be sure to keep everything above board at all times, Sally

By: daiarian

daiarian — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:39:11 +0000

Just as “Chip and Pin” was introduced to eliminate credit card fraud only for the technology to be rendered somewhat impotent by advances in the fraud industry, any attempt to combat internet fraud will be met with similar challenges.

Although I resent intervention in most walks of life I welcome the introduction of legislation (if sensibly employed) if it benefits the integrity of genuine “interweb” entrepreneurs.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:24:59 +0000

As you said this knee jerking stuff and it is i cannot think of my site (s) going down because of this and worst if it is done in error.

As I have come to learn affiliate is NOT easy so when we spend time and money to develop a site and to have it go down the drain because of not fault of mine it not easy to take.

Thanks for the heads up on this one

By: Warning: Why you could be locked out of your .uk domain

Warning: Why you could be locked out of your .uk domain — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:57:05 +0000

[...] Clarke Duncan questioned Nominet about the Investigation Lock and published their answers. Nominet stated: “It is worth mentioning that this lock is an extension of the existing [...]

By: Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:53:00 +0000

Its an interesting topic, as the tech is sort-of-there-already as registrars could just set nonsense DNS to kill a site at the moment.

This does not stop ‘cyber flight’ where a phishing/scam/whatever site can hop around ISP’s without being stopped. A scam site can be up, active and moving around inside a few hours. The ‘lock’ element of the tool prevents this.

To me, it is a ‘power’ thats already there, but this streamlines and standardises it and in turn allows both Registrars and those with complaints to be educated / access the right systems to not only enable a positive response but one with some form of consistancy and overview.

I do not think its perfect but I think its a first step that can be built on and evolved as cybercrime gets more sophisticated and needs more rapid responses.

To me the question is should .UK take a lead in developing processes to counter such problems, or sit back and be a ‘wild west’ extension.

Long term such things will evolve and add trust value to .uk which can only benefit biz on it.

In real terms today, as you say it allows people to take action either becoming a registrar, or, innovative ISP’s providing an extra USP for added info/services/policies!!