So we are talking about 12 domains. What is the hassle of keeping them?
Adding cruft for cruft's sake creates needless hassles and overhead. We should all be wary about asking the NCC to make open-ended commitments and at the very least review those sorts of requests/decisions from time to time. From that perspective, getting a sense from the WG about these domain names is a good thing. That is a good argument. I like clean systems, we just have to weigh it against the effort and the possible damages. Running a couple of more domains doesn't seem like a big burden to me, a lot of people on this
I'm pretty "confident" the new owners won't do as good things with it as the RIPE NCC.
Who cares? If the domains no longer serve any useful purpose or have no worthwhile affiliation with the NCC or the RIPE community, there seems to be little point in keeping them. Or as was discussed a few months ago, there would be no point rolling over their DLV keys. Since DLV is going away, that may well be the catalyst to give some of these crufty domains a one-way ticket to Dignitas. I don't care about DLV as you know, but I am pretty sure these will be used in abuse going forward if the RIPE NCC releases them. The RIPE NCC name has some authority when it comes to IPv4 addresses.... It seems
Moin! On 30 Jun 2015, at 16:41, Jim Reid wrote: list host thousands or millions of domains. that people are not concerned about that and that's fine with me. I might just be overly paranoid, and have certain opinions on these domain and IPv4 traders.
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.
Personally speaking, I do not like open-ended commitments which are just allowed to drift. In this case, nobody appears to be sure why these domains need to exist any more or have a good reason to hold on to them. Romeo's asking the WG if there are good reasons, just in case there are factors which have been overlooked. If anyone knows of such considerations, please speak up. I did. Do whatever you want with it. If there are more people who think the NCC should drop them I'm a good democrat ;-).
So long -Ralf