They just called me back asking for more info, sent them quite a bit of info from several browsers/connections. Apparently getting calls from registrants as well, so it's not isolated.
My first comment on this thread, so hardly sticking my nose in. I'm just amazed how someone can't associate the acts of fellow registars as impacting upon the reputation of the .uk namespace (this isn't limited to here, this has made it far wider than this little forum) and in turn the members...
A great number of people on here are members of Nominet, so it has everything to do with them, given it affects the reputation of the .uk namespace, its operators and public opinion on those who are members.
They've all had outages and issues. The first one wasn't CF fault and could easily impact anyone, that's the nature of the internet at the moment. 2nd one was a bit silly, but I bet it doesn't happen again.
A lot of the stuff they have added though is fluff. They haven't fixed some of the deeper issues that anyone serious about hosting has been crying out for (except the big boys, because they set their in-house dev teams on years ago working round them), DNSSEC is a major case in point.
It was...
Mine have been credited back to my account. I'll find out tomorrow if they'll credit back to my card, as I've been using the credit from previous day, to pay for the current day. If not, I'm sure Amex will have a word.
CatchTiger only managed to bag 1 of 50 or so that I "won" there so far. Don't know how they are doing overall. Snapnames had more luck. Picked a few up with Gandi as well.
Various things, no photos published unless official (basically all fan sites will have the same photo content, bar 1 exclusive photo per site), agree to link to the official artist site and a few other items (which are perfectly reasonable).