Nominet UK Wrongly Approved as TV White Spaces Database Administrator, NAB Says
NAB asked the FCC to reconsider September approval of Nominet UK, which otherwise administers the .uk domain name registry, as a TV white spaces database administrator (see 1809190015). NAB found "hundreds of errors, including incorrect channel information for at least…
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200 television stations,” said Friday's filing in docket 04-186: “Nominet’s continued noncompliance with FCC rules also raises concerns about the Commission’s overall mechanism to reliably evaluate database administrator efficacy.” Nominet UK didn’t comment. The NAB said FCC procedures were apparently “insufficient to catch fundamental errors that would cause the database to return faulty information."