Hi Mate,
We have around 8% of voting rights, we only need 5% to call an EGM and issue a written statement to all members. So the system is there should we need to call one.
The 5% goes on voting share, so how many names on one tag plays a massive part. You could in theory have 1000 members calling for an EGM and still not have enough. Or you could have just 2 members calling for one and have 6%.
Cheers
GW
Graeme, I know I have around a 1000 on one Nom tag, so I hope that helps.
This is a blatant attempt to raise funds to UK Gov plc, plus Registrars who may or may not sit on the board at Nominet, to grab whatever limited funds are left in the small business community and at the same time, rip-off domainers who historically have been a major source of Nominet's income. Its a further tax on beleaguered, cash-strapped businesses and investors in the UK who are suffering financially. It undermines the UK's primary domain and it adds huge costs to almost 10 million owners in a time of recession.
UK businesses and investors have spent billions developing their online businesses.
The security issue is nothing more than marketing spiel and will make no impact on cyber crime, all it does is to seek to reassure the new .uk is secure and everything else particularly the .co.uk is not and therefore worthless!
Whatever happened to the Nominet mantras of
".co.uk a great place to be" or
4 out of 5 prefer the .co.uk".
If this nonsensical offering, which was soundly beaten back in 2004 goes ahead then the .uk should be offered to the .co.uk owners FOC and should be backdated to when the .co.uk was purchased. Any new .uk's should or could be sold at the proposed £20 reg cost.
The .co.uk should be phased out completely but only when the new extension has parity on Google.
This is NOT an issue of trust. Consumers already
"TRUST" the .co.uk and it is recognised Internationally. This devalues almost 20 years of the one country-specific url that bucks the .com trend.
This is not only a kick in the teeth for people on this site but for businesses who would have to completely rebrand their business. Does Nominet have "any idea" how much this costs, it could see many UK businesses go to the wall. They have no guarantee they'd even get the .uk if they don't have a trademark but hey they could go head-to-head in an auction with someone who has infinitely more funds and watch their businesses go bust in front of their eyes!
Or perhaps worse still, they could sit in front of their computers for hours/days hoping to secure their rightful domains only to find some cyber-squatter with software has bagged their domain within a nano-second of it becoming available and will come knocking on their door shortly to sell them it at a vastly inflated price?
Still lets look on the bright side, I don't suppose Amazon, Nominet, or the BBC will lose their .uk's, so that should make us all feel better!
The primary domain for the UK has already been sold and it CANNOT be sold again.
Where do I sign up?
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