New owner slips into unwitting BoJo's domain

10 quid

The fact that the domain name is so cheap is often the problem, especially for large organisations. It costs more in paperwork to approve the spending then the spending itself, so it gets forgotten. After all, if it's so cheap, it can't have much impact, can it?

Hehe

There's no good reason for any politician to use a .com domain for campaigning, least of all someone operating in a local authority role like Boris - he's not even national to the UK. Using .com suggests a seriously jumped-up idea of his own significance - and just because most politicians have a jumped-up idea of their own significance doesn't make it OK.

But I do have a constructive suggestion - please can someone appropriately located apply to ICANN to operate .london as a TLD? That would at least ensure that those of us who never go there (and don't really recognise London's right to rule us from afar) never have to read anything which is only of significance to those poor benighted souls who can't escape the M25 perimeter.

Or perhaps there should be a dedicated TLD for policitical campaigning sites the world over - offers anyone?

Forgetting is not an excuse: too cheap to buy 5 or 10 years

All my web sites terminate at least 15 years from initial registration. Mind you the .CA mob have a reminder system that would have likely have avoided this, plus a one-month holdover that almost guarantees people like sleepy Boris never forget to renew.

In some domains names can be acquired with seconds of expiry of former registrations.

Troll?

I know I shouldn't feed the trolls but surely Blitheringeejit can't be serious?

1) .com domains are easy for idiots, sorry voters, to remember. Nobody cares about the rules for domain registration and that's why tonga made a fortune selling off those .to domains because they were catchy. Also, is bit.ly based on Libya? I think not.

2) London is the capital of England and we own all the gash round the edges of the isle. Get over it.

After beers commentary

It's Friday and some beers have been consumed, so bear with me, but aside from the Nelson Muntz finger-pointing at Boris and company, is it not telling that domain registrars are quite content to hawk the domains of large organisations to their dirty pals in the "domain parking" business, knowing full well that any registration by another organisation would be against their own trademark policies, rather than just invoicing those organisations (yes, even with a slight premium) and keeping everything going with as little hassle as possible?

Domain registrar is surely the occupation of charlatans. Hint: don't check the availability of a domain with some of these people, especially the big one with the initials NS, unless you want to pay off an extortionist outfit an inflated price after they have somehow "found out" that some random domain is of interest to someone after all.