[dns-wg] RIPE NCC domain registrations

On 30 Jun 2015, at 17:28, Ralf Weber <dns at fl1ger.de> wrote:

>> Holding on to these domains and continuing to maintain them "just because" seems unwise. ICANN already has ripe.<gTLD> on a reserved list so there is no chance of them going to an impostor.
> ripen.*, but not ripe(-)ncc.*. Will be interesting to see what happens to them.

Perhaps in the same sense that watching paint dry can turn out to be interesting... :-)

FWIW lookups of ripe-ncc.$GTLD for some of the most popular gTLDs after .com, .net and .org return NXDOMAIN. [I got bored after making a handful of queries and couldn't be bothered checking every gTLD.] Since nobody else has snapped up these Really Juicy Names yet, it seems reasonable to assume this isn't going to happen any time soon. OTOH this discussion might well prompt the domain name industry's bottom feeders to do just that. :-)