Hi guys,
Anyone else concerned about the current talk on nom-steer of registration and membership prices to push out "domain warehousers"?
One of the things I admire about Nominet is it's accessibility and for all the bad press it has had I feel it does a very good job of looking after its members who in turn offer low cost domain registration to customers - all of which is achieved with a healthy surplus. I cannot believe that some people think we would be better off under an ICANNesque membership which has more than its fair share of sharks and controversy.
If people honestly want domain warehousers confined to history they've missed the boat. If we started out that way I think we'd have a very weak and underused registry, especially in the early days when Nominet was in its infancy and probably needed domain speculators in order to maintain its income. I believe the secondary market has allowed the UK namespace to flourish in to one of the most prominent registries globally and to start undoing that would be a grave mistake.
I don't confess to know much about the politics behind Nominet, nor do I particularly wish to get involved but I truly hope most of the majority of people that post on Nom-steer have little say when it comes to the real decisions.
Regards,
Francis
Anyone else concerned about the current talk on nom-steer of registration and membership prices to push out "domain warehousers"?
One of the things I admire about Nominet is it's accessibility and for all the bad press it has had I feel it does a very good job of looking after its members who in turn offer low cost domain registration to customers - all of which is achieved with a healthy surplus. I cannot believe that some people think we would be better off under an ICANNesque membership which has more than its fair share of sharks and controversy.
If people honestly want domain warehousers confined to history they've missed the boat. If we started out that way I think we'd have a very weak and underused registry, especially in the early days when Nominet was in its infancy and probably needed domain speculators in order to maintain its income. I believe the secondary market has allowed the UK namespace to flourish in to one of the most prominent registries globally and to start undoing that would be a grave mistake.
I don't confess to know much about the politics behind Nominet, nor do I particularly wish to get involved but I truly hope most of the majority of people that post on Nom-steer have little say when it comes to the real decisions.
Regards,
Francis
