Denesh and Oliver Hope won the non-exec election

[Edwin]

http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/late...m-and-non-executive-director-election-results

 

[Hazel Pegg]

Congrats to both. Two new faces around the Board table. Will be watching with interest.

 

[super-whois]

Is it possible to work out how the top members might have voted? Someone was able to do that last year.

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:

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 plc

And the following 7 did not vote:

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.com

So 2/3rds of the top 21 voted, whereas only 15% of the total membership voted.

 

[Edwin]

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:

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?

 

[super-whois]

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?

No need for maximum, they controlled 42% of the vote.

 

[Edwin]

No need for maximum, they controlled 42% of the vote.

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")