On Wednesday, September 21, 2005 05:36:24 PM +0100 ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:18:38 +0100 Chris Crowther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Probably because Transarc doesn't exist anymore. Even the sub-domain for transarc under ibm.com is gone. It's formally IBM Pittsburgh Labs, as far as I know.Isn't a domain name classed as assets though?
This question is so vaguely phrased as to be meaningless, but... Domain names are not property and cannot be owned.
The domain itself hasn't yet expired since 1989, I guess they must have sold it rather than let it expire, or the registrar sold it prior to expiry.
I'm not sure how you get "hasn't expired since 1989". The record was _created_ in 1989; that doesn't mean it hasn't ever been expired in the time since then. However, the system currently in place allows for a registrar to reassign a name with essentially no grace period, once it expires.
Had I known IBM was uninterested in maintaining the transarc.com domain and making it point someplace useful, I would have done something about it. I doubt they resold it directly, based on the hoops we had to go through a few years ago to get central.org transferred.
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