Nominet prefer nGTLD to .UK

[invincible]

I'm glad they are aware; saves me having to clarify this with them; I'll take you on your word. Multiple hats is a tricky one, I appreciate this as surprisingly I have to do the same promoting two conflicting platforms, but ultimately you are a paid member of Nominet, which unfortunately means imo your opinions are now skewed in their favour; especially if the content you publish here and your own forum is being monitored.

As an NED I receive a salary. However they are paying me for my experience and to simply agree with everything the executive produce in papers wouldn't be providing any benefit. I'm also a director of a company that is a registrant and will be impacted by price rises and would prefer not to have to pay more, although doing so won't sink it.

I don't believe the content is monitored. I do make the Board generally aware that I post because prior to each Board Meeting we produce a report stating what we've done since the previous meeting aside from reading papers.

 

[invincible]

David

I disagree I have taken it out of context but apologies if it may appear that way to you.

If the project results are communicated to the audience via a website and then the website name should be considered and Nominet in my opinion should fight very hard for a domain ending in .uk for that website, you seem to think differently. It does not matter, who is the lead partner.
If you come back and say Nominet did fight hard and lost because ... then you will have my unreserved apology.

On legally "should be", that is correct.
I suggest you study more company law and get an understanding from the Nominet legal team on what the "Memorandum of Association" are for and what importance is placed on the order of the clauses.
It appears to me the commercial changes on policy have come from the Nominet executive not the members wishes or instigation.
Again please provide members resolutions instigating the continual commercialisation of Nominet and you will have my unreserved apology and thanks for pointing it out to me.

Nominet were granted the rights to manage domains ending .uk on the basis that was their purpose, the more Nominet deviates from that course, the more danger of Nominet loosing those rights entirely.

I presume you mean AGM's not EGM, that is what is coming next at this rate of progress on modifying Nominet pricing!

Stephen

Just lost my reply as someone phoned me just as I hit submit in iOS safari.

I'll look into the two points you've raised about choice of domain name and MoA/company law.

I had meant EGM. http://www.davros.org/temp/nominet-egm.html I believe there were two sometime between 2006 and 2010.

http://m.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/16/nominet_egm_vote/
http://m.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/22/nominet_wins_egm/

Don't just rely on the content of any links as being absolutely accurate.

 

[monaghan]

Don't forget to mention anything that those Registrars and Registrants received in return or people reading might be stupid enough to think all those received nothing. I do sometimes wonder if some forget to remember the "Oh Sh*t, I made loads of money out of buying and selling domain name registrations while all that was allegidly going on!" aspect.

People will have made money regardless, my point is that unless there's something major they are hiding, then the member subscriptions and domain sales / renewals have been funding everything so far (including the bonus system) to the point where they've had a large pot of cash left over to feed into the trust. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall voting to hand over the spare cash to anyone and now they are saying they need more cash from us and are putting up the prices. When did they ask us members if we'd rather pay more to keep it going to to cut the handouts to the trust?

Do you somehow blame the Nominet Trust trustees in some way?

I don't blame the trustees for anything, after all, they are doing what they think is best and spending other people's cash, once it has arrived with them it has already been through Nominet and there's nothing us members can do about it.

I'm questioning whether it is in the best interest of the Nominet members to be putting all our spare change into that charity pot instead of putting it back into the company. I'm sure you did say (not that long ago) that we need to be building up reserves, surely there's nothing suddenly appeared on the horizon that requires such a sudden hike in prices to raise cash, if there was we'd all be talking about that instead of asking where the money is going.

 

[invincible]

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Thanks. Noted your points and I'll try to come back on that when I find out more.