@mcrick having read back your own posts, do you just get self-righteousness, or do you actually consider that you might have said something inappropriate?
I'm not sure to make of you, you're good at putting your points forward, but you rarely consider others or their points and generally come across as severely dislikeable.
Thank you. No,I definitely don’t consider I have said anything inappropriate. If you think I have, feel free to tell me over private message. I think you’ll find it hard to pin down what you actually think it was.
Rather than interrogating me, tell your CEO to come here to this forum and be interrogated by us.
“Interrogated” is a tad strong. Questioned about you candidacy but you don’t seem to want to answer many of the questions!
In fact, I invite Russell and Nick to come here, and participate in a Q&A Webinar.
You have the opportunity to send him an email, attend and question at the AGM or attend and question at the forthcoming virtual roundtable if it’s to do with the current consultation.
You had the opportunity to appear in your own video, but you didn’t do. You also had the opportunity to record your answers to questions but you seem to be choosing not to. Why don’t you appear to want people to see what you’re really like, choosing instead to hide as far as possible behind a keyboard?
The problem is I appreciate your passion but you've not really been involved in the UK domain industry long enough to appreciate certain nuances, this is often demonstrated often your lengthy posts.
I couldn’t agree more.
Nah, I've been here since 2011, dear newbie. Been UK domaining since 1999. I was more interested in ICANN in the beginning, and very active in their politics, on the same old theme of rules, enforcement, laissez faire, and conflicts of interest. I gradually grew more concerned about the UK's namespace. But you're right, that I could write more succinctly!
So you've been hand reg/catching since 1999 - you must have quite a collection of great domains then?
Is anyone aware of any commercial activity involving Susannah and the domain name industry?
@mcrick
You need to be human and apologise when you are shown to be wrong. You are making some valid points and throwing some insult within it makes your points to be ignored.
I’ve not insulted anybody but I’ll be sure to make it clear when if I am doing. Please tell me by Private Message where specifically you are sure that I’ve been throwing insults. I don’t think you’ll be able.
A lot of us were registrars in 1999 but more interested in .COM than .co.uk and not wise to how valuable these .co.uk will be.
Also not many catching was going on then, its all registering and mostly by signed emails.
You could have been registrar since the 90s with only a handful of domains to show for it.
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?
@Siusaidh
Thanks for the comments, I signed the petitions because to a lot of people, this is their only income and taking that away just like that is callous.
Who are these “lot of people” you cite that this is “their only income”? Please tell us WHO?
Also, Nominet should not make secondary market another income stream, they already run a monopoly and adding secondary market to it should not be allowed.
They don’t run a monopoly because .COM is a viable competitor with double digit numbers of registrations in the same markets as .uk. All registries are the sole providers of their extensions, as can only be the case, but it is not the only viable choice.
Some of us here will remember the fight in the .COM space in the 90s when Network Solutions have the monopoly to .COM and the secondary market. .COM use to cost about £120 for 2 years and many new registrars have to fight for this to stop. I think we are at that stage now when a Registry wanted to have monopoly of everything to do with .UK name space.
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?
Nominet already have income enough to run the registry many times over and if the directors wanted to do diversify they should resign and setup a new company. Trying to move into cyber security that is dominated already by big players.
Different issue. Niche produces can gain transaction in new arenas if they are ahead of the time.
I cant see CyGlass going to be a successful large company, the success I can see here is been bought again by a bigger company like Amazon or Azure or similar company. Most of their services is already free with most cloud companies and no need to buy their services at all.
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.
If Nominet want to be a cyber security company, they should stop using registry income, separate it from Nominet and lets see how it will survive.
It’s Nominet’s income, not registry income. Do you tell Tesco what they may do with the money they receive from your weekly shop?
Lastly, how can Nominet justify a salary increase of £300k in one year to the CEO, what have Nominet achieved to justify this? Also all directors remunerations increase by 60% in one year. Why and what for?
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?
Nominet have made members and many small registrars irrelevant, this is not right and at this rate, members will leave anyway since there will be no reason or value in membership.
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.
I am not sure about the members figures few years ago, but I think it was about 4000 at its peak and if Nominet continue this way, members will leave, may be this is their intention.
If a lot of the proxy members leave because there’s no need for them to exist, is that a negative?
I don't understand why a Director gets paid about £1632 a day (CEO even more) when a nurse saving people's lives gets paid about £108 a day.
Simple. They don’t. If you don’t understand this, you might want to rethink how much time you might be able to commit to the position. It can and does sometime exponentially increase beyond the suggested number of days.
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