New Nominet website

[ian]

Can't say I'm that convinced about it. Less about the domains now and more about other products and services that they are going to blow their money on. The whois is fairly entrenched too, not exactly a prominent feature of the website despite (I suspect) being the most popular page/facility. Don't like the format/text of the results either and the amount of scrolling required.

 

[getmein]

Disappointing they moved the whois search from the homepage, but doing a search on mobile works well.

 

[martin-s]

The member login link has disappeared down to the footer area as "Online Services" if anyone else was used to using the one in the top right.

 

[scottmccloud]

Uh-oh. Looks like they've let their web designer have free-reign without any thought about the actual usability of the site. Looks OK but it's not user friendly and you can tell Nominet isn't quite sure what it's supposed to be as an organisation. Bit of an identity crisis going on.

 

[Adam H]

Not a fan either, these modern, minimalistic, flat looks are nice for alot of business types but i wouldn't have put Nominet in that bracket, they've lost their branding in my opinion as a corporate business and functionality has been completely lost, that's coming from someone who welcomes progression and change too.

Who'd have thunk it, Nominet running on Wordpress instead of a bespoke script. We're they previously using Wordpress ?

 

[Systreg]

This is my least favourite type of site theme and I usually hit the x on sites who have themes like that. I'll only see the online services page for logging in and not have to look at any other ages of the site.

I now get this message now when going to online services page:

From 3 November 2015, to access the Online Services website, your browser and operating system must support TLS 1.1 and/or TLS 1.2.
Your browser may need to have the default setting changed or you may need to upgrade to a newer version of your browser.

I assume that's because I'm using an old 12.17 version of Opera browser. I ain't updating Opera to the new version, which has no favourites menu list on the left like the older versions, so back to FireFox for logging in to Nominet.

 

[martin-s]

Someone who uses Opera. Wow!

 

[Systreg]

@ Martin, what's wrong with Opera? It's the fastest browser I've used, I used to use FireFox all the time years ago, but after one particular update it was slow and clunky, so I tried Opera and been with that since.

 

[jasman]

I hate it. Looks like an off-the-shelf bootstrap-based template for a small business. Not a good usability experience for desktops which in my view are more important for a registry. A lot less information on the screen at once so a lot more scrolling and messing about to find what you are looking for. Look at this:

http://www.nominet.uk/domains/

Page height is about 5 times the viewport so 5 screens worth to scroll through and yet it could all easily fit on one page so you could see it all clearly at a glance.

Looks like they have opted for the mobile-first approach but decided to just inflate a mobile site and present it to larger devices without using any creativity to take advantage of much bigger screen sizes. They could at least make it adapt more intuitively for desktops - shrink the font size and spacing to around the level it was previously so much more can fit on one page and add an aside on the right with lots more links to pertinent sections, whois box etc.

 

[mat]

Opera is my favourite browser for searching Altavista and tending to my Geocities websites.

 

[Systreg]

@ Mat :lol: It's still the best/fastest browser I've used and does me.

I had a look in Opera settings and under security protocols it was set to TLS 1 but lets me enable TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2, both of which I've enabled, no idea what they are though lol

 

[martin-s]

They are related to how SSL certificate connections are negotiated with the server. Since the heartbleed SSL bug, hosts have been trying to move away from TLS 1.0.

For every day use, I'd tend to recommend Chrome, though Edge on Windows 10 is the fastest overall browser currently according to our tests.

 

[Systreg]

@ Martin, thanks for the explanation of the TLS things.

I can only go by Opera and FireFox for speed comparison, but this old version of Opera I reverted back to, is in a different league speed wise compared to the newest version of FireFox, which is still slow and clunky. I've never heard of the Edge browser.

Forgot to ask, should I untick and disable the TLS 1 box?

 

[martin-s]

No need to untick TLS 1.0, no.

Most browser performance problems are caused by plug-ins people install, but Firefox is generally the worst, narrowly beating IE.

Edge is the new browser on Windows 10. Newer versions of Chrome use the same technology (multiple resources on a single request thread to remove negotiation and queuing overheads), but the big benefits from that won't be available until more web servers are updated.

 

[spiderspider]

Presume everyone else is getting this:

Home page is one picture, scroll down, full screen of another picture, and so on, then full screen for footer?

PLus, read this:

We're responsible for a vital part of today's UK internet infrastructure. Building on this expertise, we're developing leading-edge technologies to support the internet of tomorrow.

If you didn't know who Nominet were, what would you guess that 'vital part of today's UK internet infrastructure' was? Fibre Cables? Router Equipment? ISP?

 

[Systreg]

No need to untick TLS 1.0, no.

Most browser performance problems are caused by plug-ins people install, but Firefox is generally the worst, narrowly beating IE.

Thanks, I'll leave the TLS 1 alone in that case. I don't use any plug-ins, so that probably helps to keep Opera quicker for me.

Edge is the new browser on Windows 10.

I got the Mrs a new laptop the other week which has Windows 8.1 on it, a right piece of work that operating system is, theres no start menu on it either, and I'm sure I read that they had included a start menu on 8.1 after so many complaints about it not being on Windows 8, but I couldn't see it anywhere.

So many bloody apps and stuff not required which I deleted, I installed ClassicShell start menu to make it look like a normal computer again. Now I keep getting a notification to upgrade for free to Windows 10, I had a look at it on YouTube and it looks worse than Windows 8/8.1, so we'll leave that and stick with how it is now.

@ spiderspider, yes, that what we're all seeing, and you're right, if you didn't know who Nominet were, you wouldn't know from looking at the site.

 

[foz]

Like it, DRS is impossible to find

 

[ian]

Like it, DRS is impossible to find

haha, music to your ears.

 

[Edwin]

Like it, DRS is impossible to find

I think they've just made some more changes - "Dispute Resolution" is now a link in the site-wide footer.

 

[TheSide]

Logging in to Nominet!

Just went to new Nominet site to log in to take a look at my domains.... Spent 10 minutes looking for how to log-in !!!!

Decided to come here to ask somebody, then found this post, and have found the answer!

WTF are they thinking at Nominet????!!!!

For anybody else looking:

Nominet home page,
scroll to the BOTTOM (!!!) of the page
Click "Online Services"
New window - old site!
Log in.


Nominet - if you are reading this: Add a link to the main menu (top left) or the main horizontal menu please. - And ask for feedback from users of your site!

Rant over!