Thank you

[WealdDomains]

I'm not sure whether this post is going to come across as profound or pretentious or both or neither ... but what the hell ...

1. Thank you all for what you have contributed to the debate about the Nominet consultation exercise over the last few months. Yes, I know it isn't over, but today is definitely worthy of note.
2. Thank you to those of you who have really driven this : I am unashamedly going to single out Stephen and Edwin and could easily add several more. I would happily nominate the pair of you for a joint award at the next Traffic event or DNJ poll
3. Thank you all ... and those at Nominet ... for sadly but honestly making me more cynical and embittered : I used to believe in cock-up theory far more than conspiracy theory, but now I have changed ... and that is not something that makes me happy or proud :-(
4. Building on that, thank you all, through the consultation exercise and other concurrent activities, for helping me to understand more about the corporate governance and governmental governance around a critical part of the UK's economic and technological infrastructure.
5. Thank you all for helping me to improve my understanding and interpretation so fundamentally : with hindsight, my starting point was superficial, shallow, selfish and naive. Also, who on earth would have thought that the rational deep answer to the soundbite question "Would you like websites to be more secure with shorter addresses ?" would actually be "no" ? It's scary.
6. Thank you all for hanging in there through the debate as a coherent community of UK domainers, despite massive differences of opinion and differing personality types : wouldn't it be great if this, coupled with the de facto Nomensa recognition of the UK domaining/aftermarket community throughout its report, could provide the foundation for a truly positive, professional angle to UK domaining moving forward ?

OK, I'm rambling. Anyway, please re-read my opening sentence before you hit the reply button

David

 

[Rob_F]

I'm not sure whether this post is going to come across as profound or pretentious or both or neither ... but what the hell ...

2. Thank you to those of you who have really driven this : I am unashamedly going to single out Stephen and Edwin and could easily add several more. I would happily nominate the pair of you for a joint award at the next Traffic event or DNJ poll

Absolutely – Thank you!

Who knows what the outcome of this consultation would have been without the
efforts of the aforementioned people, and Graeme, and no doubt many others.

We all owe you a debt of gratitude – and anyone with a .co.uk presence for that matter.

- Rob

 

[murph]

Agreed. It's not over, but at least that complete farce hasn't been implemented as it stood. Thanks to everyone who campaigned on this!

 

[aZooZa]

Great post. Indeed huge kudos to Stephen, Edwin and Graeme for their leading initiatives and hard work. I tend to agree with Edwin that the whole thing now is impossible to revive in a way that would be detrimental to the .co.uk space, so as far as I'm concerned, it's now business as usual.

 

[foz]

Thanks to all! Jolly good effort.

 

[Bailey]

Yes I hope it doesn't now turn into a recrimination exercise, Graeme excepted due to that turning into quite a personal matter, (which I'm not aware of how that is progressing)

I singled out my acknowledgement of Edwin, purely because of his ability to put things in such a succinct way that must have scared even those from Nominet that were previously convinced it was a good idea.

Yes, I know I had a little bark at him in the early stages

 

[GreyWing]

Graeme excepted due to that turning into quite a personal matter, (which I'm not aware of how that is progressing)

Going pretty well cheers, my defence will be filed today, very much as expected. My issue with them was never about the .uk issue, so nothing has changed for me.

 

[websaway]

You could add Nigel to your list of Graham, Edwin and Greywing.
A great job.

 

[GreyWing]

Nigel did a awesome job, so much so I think he should start to give consideration to Non_Exec elections coming up soon.

Some great people that in my opinion should stand and we should get behind one of them.

 

[bulkcorn]

Big thank you to everyone who contributed in one way or the other to 'help' nominet 'decide' on the matter .... :lol:

 

[aZooZa]

You could add Nigel to your list of Graham, Edwin and Greywing.
A great job.

Indeed and apologies for the glaring omission.

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[websaway]

I think before Nominet set out on their investigation a movement should be started.

" No Direct Competitor To co.uk In the UK Domain Space "

or the like, Keep it simple so everyone can grasp it, no personal interests involved just the fact that the uk business domain space has already been sold through 9,000,000 registrations of co.uk.

 

[Simon]

Agreed: thanks to everyone who took part in this especially the more vocal whom made me aware of all the details and shared their knowledge and experience.

While it would not have made a great difference to me personally .uk was something that UK businesses did not need.

Going forward I'll be keeping an eye out for any future consultations , and look forward to hopefully seeing Graeme win his court case and Nigel getting on board as a Non Exec two things which I feel would get nominet back on track.