Call me old fashioned if you like, but I thought the main purpose of the BBC was to provide top telly and radio, not spend its – sorry our - money on websites that it can't possibly use. Its not that I don't approve of the excellent bbc.co.uk, or would mind if it registered URLs like bbc.com, bbc.org to prevent "unfair" use by others. But when it starts registering sites willy-nilly, questions come to mind about where it spends the licence fee.
Trawling through the list it appears that many of the domain names relate to its Kingswood Warren R&D projects – the subject of much privatisation rumour of late. My question is, should my licence fee go towards making the chief executive of whoever eventually takes it over richer, or on better TV and fewer repeats?
