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Denesh and Oliver Hope won the non-exec election
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Congrats to both. Two new faces around the Board table. Will be watching with interest.
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Congratulations to them. Seb has plenty of things going on, including his business and thinkbroadband.com web site, and I am quite sure he will relish having the time that leaving the board will free up.
Is it possible to work out how the top members might have voted? Someone was able to do that last year.
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It is known as the Subset Sum Problem. Unfortunately last year was the only year the exact voting strategy could be revealed, as Popularise published an additional document which listed the first preference votes without the cap applied.
This year, they have avoided listing the applied cap, but as it cannot be more than 3%, then it has to be 3% of 1437735, rounded down to 43132. There are 21 members who have voting rights greater than this, of which the following 14 voted:
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2450179 Webfusion Ltd
1999345 1 & 1 Internet AG
502113 GoDaddy.com LLP.
262995 Namesco Limited
203401 LCN.com Ltd
198116 Iomart Hosting Ltd
178423 UK2 Limited
156831 Register.com Inc
111161 Daily Internet Services Limited
93312 Crazy Domains FZ-LLC
89858 One.com A/S
67896 Thermal Degree Limited
51680 Fibranet Services Ltd
47702 British Telecommunications plcAnd the following 7 did not vote:
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388821 TUCOWS Inc
252981 eNom Inc.
222198 NetBenefit UK Ltd
102558 Key-Systems GmbH
83628 Gandi
47629 Corporation Service Company (UK) Limited
47335 PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.comSo 2/3rds of the top 21 voted, whereas only 15% of the total membership voted.
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Does that mean that the 14 who voted controlled a maximum of 42% of the actual vote cast (i.e. 14 x 3%) with the remaining 58% of votes coming from "uncapped" members?
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No need for maximum, they controlled 42% of the vote.
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Ok, thanks. It's interesting that the cap makes all the top registrars as powerful/weak as each other when it comes to voting (i.e. you don't have to be a top 5 registrar to have the "maximum influence")
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