I’ve written two pieces for The Register over the new ICANN contract with the US government, and the Board election shambles at Nominet.
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From the category archives:
Nominet
I manage to squeeze in a quick trip to California to finish up my Sex.com book and everything goes crazy.
I arrived in San Francisco an hour ago to no less than four voicemails and 50 non-spam emails – in the spate of 10 hours. I knew ICANN was going to announce its MoU late on [...]
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Well, Nominet’s annual general meeting finished an hour or so ago in London and thanks to Rob, we have a clear rundown of what happened.
In a nutshell: a change of accountants because Nominet is getting bigger; another bit of vote chaos that may blow up tomorrow when the result from the Board election is announced; Nominet is making too much money for its own good; a tentative move forward on another EGM to let Nominet get at ENUM and other registry services (maybe.eu, they say).
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There are two Board positions going at UK registry Nominet that will be decided on Wednesday (27 September) at the company’s annual general meeting in London.
Last week, Nominet announced that there were six candidates and released a statement from each. Despite the extremely tight time period (for example postal votes have to be with Nominet tomorrow (Monday)), I thought it would be a good idea to do very brief interviews with each candidate asking what I hope are the questions that Nominet members would wish to ask and then post them on the Net to help people arrive at a decision.
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That’s the question everyone is asking.
Pipex is the biggest beast in the .uk domain market, and as a result it has the most votes in UK registry owner Nominet. In fact, it has 1,041, which gives it more than 10 percent of all available votes and provides it with a veto over Nominet because for [...]
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Well, I thought it would be a close thing. And I was completely wrong.
Nominet this morning lost all three votes called at its Extraordinary General Meeting and lost them by a massive margin. Why? Because, completely unexpectedly, two of the three biggest Nominet members decided they didn’t like them.
In the end, all the objections eloquently put forward by some members of Nominet’s Policy Advisory Board were as nought when big companies Fasthosts and Pipex turned against the deal.
But what I thought was a battle over Nominet’s future direction has suddenly become something much, much bigger. It’s now about who controls Nominet, and so by extension, the UK’s Internet space, and the UK’s biggest beast in the global Net infrastructure market.
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Tomorrow at 10am at the Kassam football stadium in Oxford, the future of the UK’s Internet, and the future of the UK on the Internet, will be decided.
Nominet – the company that runs the .uk domain registry – is holding an extraordinary general meeting where it will ask its shareholders to approve a radical overhaul [...]
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