Nominet

Interviews with the Nominet Board candidates

September 24, 2006

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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Why did Pipex screw Nominet?

March 16, 2006

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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Nominet EGM hits barriers

March 16, 2006

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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UK’s Internet future to be decided tomorrow

March 15, 2006

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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