Interviews with the Nominet Board candidates
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...
View ArticleNominet’s election and agm
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...
View ArticleYou get on one bloody plane…
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 –...
View ArticleMore on ICANN and Nominet
I’ve written two pieces for The Register over the new ICANN contract with the US government, and the Board election shambles at Nominet. In a nutshell: ICANN is taking the chance to escape US control...
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We need you! Here is how you can help the Net
There is a big meeting on the future of the Internet in London tomorrow, run by Nominet, where I will be acting as the “chief blogger”. As such, I need your help. In fact, I am the official chief...
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IGF London meeting: rushes, worries and lessons
So Nominet held a big meeting in London on Monday covering the new Internet Governance Forum that will meet for the first time at the end of this month in Athens. In some ways, it was a sort-of mini...
View ArticleNominet IGF meeting audio recordings
Nominet held a meeting over the IGF on Monday which has attracted a fair amount of attention, most of it revolving around Nitin Desai’s remarks at the end, picked up by the BBC. I have grabbed the...
View ArticleHow to avoid learning perhaps a little too much about Kieren’s life
I mentioned about a month ago how I was considering setting up a second blog so I could more easily separate my personal and professional life. And yesterday, twice, I was reminded that there is a bit...
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Nominet wins EGM votes – but only just
Nominet very narrowly scraped the 90 percent it needed to be able to expand beyond the .uk registry this morning in Oxford. In fact, 90.97 percent – which in reality meant that a Nominet member or two...
View ArticleNominet Board fight rolls on
Yet another extraordinary statement has come out of Nominet – the .uk registry owner – today. This time, the chairman Bob Gilbert lambasts a “number of false allegations” made in a resignation letter...
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