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Nominet very narrowly scraped the 90 percent it needed to be able to expand beyond the .uk registry this morning in Oxford.

In fact, 90.97 percent - which in reality meant that a Nominet member or two either way would have seen the whole thing fall over. I’m very pleased this got through. I […]

I mentioned about a month ago how I was considering setting up a second blog so I could more easily separate my personal and professional life. And yesterday, twice, I was reminded that there is a bit of an unusual overlap when I spoke to two people: one, the spokesman for a company I […]

Nominet held a meeting over the IGF on Monday which has attracted a fair amount of attention, most of it revolving around Nitin Desai’s remarks at the end, picked up by the BBC.
I have grabbed the audio from the meeting and produced a series of MP3 files which you can download and listen to […]

So Nominet held a big meeting in London on Monday covering the new Internet Governance Forum that will meet for the first time at the end of this month in Athens.

In some ways, it was a sort-of mini IGF in that it took the same free-ranging panel approach and that it explictly held two […]

There is a big meeting on the future of the Internet in London tomorrow, run by Nominet, where I will be acting as the “chief blogger”. As such, I need your help.
In fact, I am the official chief blogger for the Internet Governance Forum itself in Athens at the end of this month. That […]

I’ve written two pieces for The Register over the new ICANN contract with the US government, and the Board election shambles at Nominet.

In a nutshell: ICANN is taking the chance to escape US control seriously; everyone remains annoyed with the US administration’s failure to actually do anything except give easily breakable assurances (I am […]

I manage to squeeze in a quick trip to California to finish up my Sex.com book and everything goes crazy.
I arrived in San Francisco an hour ago to no less than four voicemails and 50 non-spam emails - in the spate of 10 hours. I knew ICANN was going to announce its MoU late […]

Well, Nominet’s annual general meeting finished an hour or so ago in London and thanks to Rob, we have a clear rundown of what happened.
In a nutshell: a change of accountants because Nominet is getting bigger; another bit of vote chaos that may blow up tomorrow when the result from the Board election is […]

There are two Board positions going at UK registry Nominet that will be decided on Wednesday (27 September) at the company’s annual general meeting in London.
Last week, Nominet announced that there were six candidates and released a statement from each. Despite the extremely tight time period (for example postal votes have to be with […]

That’s the question everyone is asking.
Pipex is the biggest beast in the .uk domain market, and as a result it has the most votes in UK registry owner Nominet. In fact, it has 1,041, which gives it more than 10 percent of all available votes and provides it with a veto over Nominet because […]