Nominet announces new policy consultation for expiring .UK domains

@mcrick. Are you a Nominet board member ?

It is clear that @mcrick has an agenda here.

What I can't work out is if it is purely hate towards Susannah because of her gender, or he is simply using this, as well as other things, to try to undermine her candidacy.

Either way it is unpleasant to read and whether or not the points @mcrick makes are valid @Admin should ban him from making any more until he/she has disclosed their identity.

I feel this would be the only way to judge this discussion and the points fairly, and without discloser, @mcrick comments should be viewed as trolling and a personal attack aimed to undermine and cause self doubt.

Disclosure on my part, I am not a tag holder and am best described as a hobbyist.

Derek said:

How about the conflict of interest of said candidate abusing their staff position on a domaining forum to delete other peoples posts re Nominet policies?

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Derek said:

Do you think its reasonable for a prospective Nominet paid staff member to be using their position as a mod here to be deleting Nominet critical posts?

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To be fair he said @Admin not @susannah . Dont think the owner of the forum has any affiliation with Nominet ? Could be wrong ?

Admin already confirmed who it is https://www.acorndomains.co.uk/thre...expiring-uk-domains.168493/page-6#post-633948

Derek said:

Do you think its reasonable for a prospective Nominet paid staff member to be using their position as a mod here to be deleting Nominet critical posts?

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How many VPN accounts do you have David?

You've mistakenly quoted me. You should pm him and check?

Murray said:

Admin already confirmed who it is https://www.acorndomains.co.uk/thre...expiring-uk-domains.168493/page-6#post-633948

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Thanks @Murray . Hadnt seen that . So we do have current board members trolling prospective candidates. Nice....

mcrick said:

Do you mean registrar or registrant because there was only one registrar in the late 1990’s (Network Solutions). Were you referring to being a Nominet member and tag holder?

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Nominet Member and TAG holder not .COM Registrar.
Also there were more than one .COM registrars in the 1990s.

mcrick said:

Who are these “lot of people” you cite that this is “their only income”? Please tell us WHO?

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Silly question to ask..

mcrick said:

They don’t run a monopoly

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Do you understand the definition of Monopoly?

mcrick said:

No Nominet haven’t. The annual membership fee hasn’t gone up. If some members leave, because £100 A YEAR, is too much for them, maybe they have more pressing issues that they’re hiding.

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You missing the point, there actions over the years is making members irrelevant. £100 is not what will make anyone not be a member of Nominet, that's Orange Juice money.

mcrick said:

If a lot of the proxy members leave because there’s no need for them to exist, is that a negative?

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I don't know, I don't know if they are all proxy members and did they tell you why the left?

mcrick said:

Can you cite any online source that details this? Any document? Any news article anywhere that you can evidence to corroborate what you claim to remember from over twenty years ago, please?

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If you are asking, it means you are not involve in the internet space in the 90s. google network solution monopoly of .com and take your pick.

mcrick said:

I highly doubt you understand the products or areas that CyGlass’s products belong in and I wouldn’t expect you to without having researched it

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Cyglass is not ahead of anytime, they are catching up, Nominet had to buy them to even have a security product. There is nothing they are doing that is new.

Please don't doubt, I have developed and delivered eCommerce systems for banks, insurance and other FTSE 100 companies for over two decades, LBG, RBS/NatWest, AXA, AON, Lehman Brothers, Dresdner, Aviva, Old Mutual Wealth. I am certified in Cisco Pix and Checkpoint firewalls and used many others including F5s. I could go on here but I think that's enough.

Please Network security is priority to all my work and I definitely know what I am talking about here.

Now back to Cyglass service, there is nothing new here and I don't need to start explaining anything to you here either.

Like I said, Cyglass patent, if they have one for their service will be bought and leverage on other services offered by network providers.

Please don't doubt, we might only be talking domain names here, so you know, I start my IT career in the 80s, been very lucky to have had the career I had and the companies I have worked for.

Now you know, don't doubt my knowledge and experience here.

mcrick said:

Ask the Chairman. He’ll be happy to explain. In a nutshell, because the CEO is worth his salary and the Remuneration Committee don’t want him to be poached because they’re playing him below market. Do you have reason to believe that wouldn’t happen?

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The usual nonsense, you could assume I have heard this before.

CEO salary increase need to be justified on achievement not that if CEO goes we are done. That is total nonsense, there was Nominet before CEO joined and there will be Nominet after CEO goes.

Show me what significant achievement that has happened since this CEO joined?

David, bro, chill, a lot of people on this platform knows a lot about a lot of things, you might not know they do but they do, please threat people with some respect and don't questions their intelligence.

I don't hate the people working at Nominet, I have dealt with few people at Nominet and they are good people, nice people and I have no bad words to say about anyone working at Nominet.

I have issue with the direction Nominet is taking and now trying to take away secondary market income from members is not right. Try find a way to fix the issues.

As per the insult you made, I will send you a private message as requested.

I will leave things here and hope we all have a good week.

Derek said:

You've mistakenly quoted me. You should pm him and check?

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I'm not stupid David.

@Admin can we also establish who @Derek is? Again, trolling and distracting. No posting history prior to mid July. Potential conflict of interest. Either he declares who he is, or he should be removed.

DesD said:

@Admin can we also establish who @Derek is? Again, trolling and distracting. No posting history prior to mid July. Potential conflict of interest. Either he declares who he is, or he should be removed.

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Someone that has an opinion that differs to yours doesn't mean they're a troll.

Saying there is a conflict of interest is just silly. A conflict to what exactly?

Derek said:

Someone that has an opinion that differs to yours doesn't mean they're a troll.

Saying there is a conflict of interest is just silly. A conflict to what exactly?

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At first you were in Bulgaria, then Israel, now a question mark. Stylometric analysis is great David. I suggest you resign.

Resign from what exactly? I'm not David. I don't work for Nominet. You're making yourself look stupid.

Derek said:

Resign from what exactly? I'm not David. I don't work for Nominet. You're making yourself look stupid.

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Prove that you aren't David then. Your anonymity suggests you have something to hide.

I've been posting complaining about the Bulgarian scammers and the other cheaters. What sort of proof would you post if you were me? A selfie with my passport outside my house with the address showing? Perhaps holding a printout of my own and clients domains?

I'm telling you I'm not David. I don't work for Nominet. You can choose whether to believe it or not.

Derek said:

Someone that has an opinion that differs to yours doesn't mean they're a troll.

Saying there is a conflict of interest is just silly. A conflict to what exactly?

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Look, you've been a member of this community for under two weeks and you're disrupting every important topic on the forum (there aren't many admittedly, but some are clearly important), which is extremely odd behaviour for a new member.

There's a suggestion you're a member of the Nominet board; which is a conflict if you are.

As for policy, other than offering Susannah a bit of technical support over the past few weeks - during which she earned my respect, I have very little interest in this entire subject. I'm no more than a casual buyer.

What I do have an opinion on is the chaos that you and the troll have caused over the past two weeks.

Quite why @Admin hasn't sorted it is beyond me. At minimum, I'd have put these threads into a sub-forum with some member length criteria attached.

If I can ask one favour of you, 'Derek'. Don't respond.

It's quite obvious who 'Derek' is. I'm surprised he hasn't 'outed' himself. He's NOT from Nominet.

I signed up this account specifically to have my say on these issues as they affect me personally. You're just trying to restrict the voice of someone who's opinion you don't like by crying "troll" or "Nominet employee". I just want a fair system for the high value domains, I don't want them stolen by Hay or the Bulgarians.

mcrick said:

Is anyone aware of any commercial activity involving Susannah and the domain name industry?

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Yes, I'm aware of such activity.

No, we only out perceived weaknesses on this forum. Unfortunately for the guilty, Susannah is a good deal stronger than the coward who is attempting to oppress her.