Looking for your vote, UK domainers. AMA

[DJ]

This doesn't appear to be going well so far!

 

[michaeltoth]

But the job is done. The CEO and everyone that enabled him on the Board are gone.

I believe the company lawyer Nick Wenban-Smith is still there and was the one who advised the board. So you are being very clever in your reply. how about pushing him to let us all know what happened.

 

[LCHappy]

There is also a case where things may have gone on, and Nominet could get some money back. Directors of a company that lost $25m on a purchase that was written off, then re-animated by previous Directors for free, would be sort of interested in finding out?

I'm not saying there has or there hasn't been wrong doing, that's not even the point. The point is $25m is an awful lot of reasons to find out. Directors have a duty to explore this, surely?

 

[michaeltoth]

IFFOR has a budget of $100,000 a year. It is a small non-profit that has been focused in recent years on producing educational materials for 11-14 year-olds over online sexual content (AtFirstSite is a great course btw).

Can you show me What was produced and also exactly where this information. i.e. Who used it? how many organisations use it. How many children have seen this and been help. what year did this happen. What other good things has IFFOR funded. Please tell us all about it, I'm all ears. Remember I know exactly what it's done.

Also this is a question for everyone. Did anyone get this letter from "Nominet" and think it was from Nominet. Taking Nominets "initial interest confusion" from the DRS Kieren has used all of Nominets Intellectual Property(IP) for his own gain. Never has any candidate standing for the board done this before. I have made a formal complaint to Rory Kelly about Kieren and i ask all of those who agree with me to do the same. he can be contacted on [email protected]

 

[Kieren]

This doesn't appear to be going well so far!

I knew you’d be a tough group to talk to about Nominet, especially around Board issues. But I didn’t think that should stop me from doing so.

I appreciate those that have taken the time to read what I’ve said and respond to it. I was hoping for more questions than accusations but hey.

Kieren

 

[ukbackorder]

Some of us have been around in this industry for decades - judging by your picture when you were still in shorts. We have seen it all.
David Thornton did a lot of damage. So did Haworth. Evil and corrupt - in that order.

 

[super-whois]

I was hoping for more questions than accusations but hey.

Plenty of questions, and none are accusations. Still no answers.

My vote is now:

1. Jim Davies (I would be biased given my recent open letter signature)
2. Volker Greimann (because, better the devil you know)

 

[Ben Thomas]

Coming into this topic, I liked how Kieron has come to chat on this forum. The others never bother. But things have took a turn.

 

[super-whois]

The others never bother.

Jim might not have posted here, but he's been distracted by weightedvoting.uk recentl, the KC's Opinion speaks volumes, and there's more up that sleeve.

 

[JimDavies]

Sorry, my old WelshWarhorse account dropped off its perch somewhere along the way. So I am here with a new account.

My three main policies are :

1. .uk Price Cut - to £2.50 a year. Details here https://jimdavies.co.uk/?p=481
2. Fix Nominet's Broken Governance - including the articles on weighted voting - details of that problem here https://weightedvoting.uk/
3. Trust the members. Share information with members and stakeholders. They were right about the mistake of commercialisation and backed Public Benefit. We need to finish that job.

Happy to talk about those or any other issues.

 

[Ben Thomas]

You've got my vote, Jim.

 

[DJ]

You had me at £2.50........

 

[JimDavies]

Careful, Kieren will post another of his Tom Cruise memes!

Thanks for your votes both of you!

 

[michaeltoth]

You know you already have mine.

 

[michaeltoth]

I believe someone costed the £2.50 and Nominet can more than afford it. Especially with £110,000,000 (yes that 110 million) in storage in its bank.

 

[Ben Thomas]

£2.50 is still too much IMO, but it's a start.

 

[LCHappy]

Trouble is, we don't want to get a position where people are just renewing everything without a second thought. The whole extension will be stagnant with names not available and unused, this might be even worse if new websites can't get a foothold on even the most basic of reg fee name.

 

[Ben Thomas]

Trouble is, we don't want to get a position where people are just renewing everything without a second thought. The whole extension will be stagnant with names not available and unused, this might be even worse if new websites can't get a foothold on even the most basic of reg fee name.

Surely only large portfolio holders would matter when doing this, but also not consider doing it because it's still going to be £2.50(£3 inc.) per domain, it soon adds up.

 

[LCHappy]

Surely only large portfolio holders would matter when doing this, but also not consider doing it because it's still going to be £2.50(£3 inc.) per domain, it soon adds up.

Large portfolio owners may benefit from higher prices if it means new started can get decentish reg fee names, if it leads to the ext being used more for active websites. Every active brand advertising a .co.uk or .UK is adding to the reputation of the ext.

I just mean that if we dropped it to £40p a name because Nominet can afford to do it at that price, there would be other consequences. Somewhere in the middle will be a sweet spot where people get the max benefit out of it.

 

[DJ]

The last promotion Nominet ran seemed to coincide with a large number of renewals due for 3dweb and Dulwich storage company, so I am pretty sure that Nominet already scratch the back of the larger portfolio holders anyway.

This is probably a consequence of the weighted voting rights currently in place.