Nominet, the .uk registry and also the company running backend services for several new TLDs, has announced an apprenticeship program. The company is offering 3 places across software development, business intelligence and technical infrastructure. Full details on their site.
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Nominet Launch Bullying and Trolling Education Campaign
Nominet, the UK domain name registry, has launched an educational campaign on the impact of cyber-bullying and trolling via its educational site “Know the ‘net“. According to research conducted on their behalf 2 out of 3 teenagers have been affected, but most would not go to their parents or teachers for advice or help. Full [...]
Nominet Appoints Chief Commercial Officer
Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, has announced the appointment of Jill Finney as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). From their announcement: The CCO role has been newly created as we aim to build on our strengths as an internationally-respected registry and respond to the challenges of a liberalised domain name market. As part of her [...]
Nominet Registrar Conference Video
Nominet have made available the video of their registrar conference: The consultation on “Direct UK” is still ongoing
Transparency Fail – Nominet’s Registrar Meeting On Direct UK
Today Nominet held their annual registrar conference. Unlike other year’s there was only one topic on the agenda: The Direct UK Consultation. I wrote about my issues with the proposal a while back and Edwin Hayward has collected pretty much all references to it in both blogs and mainstream media here. While I was not [...]
Nominet To Hold Consultations On “Direct.uk” With Stakeholders
Nominet, who operate .uk, have announced plans for a number of “roundtables” on their “direct.uk” proposal, which we covered recently. There will be events held in London, Cardiff, Manchester and Belfast. An “open house” is also planned for 8 November in London. Full details of the various events are on the Nominet site Later in [...]
Nominet Sucking Up To Law Enforcement With New Proposals?
Nominet, the registry for *.uk, has opened a public consultation on the re-introduction of .uk domain names ie. domains directly under .uk such as businessname.uk The proposals from the registry, however, sound like they’re heavily influenced by the law enforcement “asks” during the current RAA negotiations. They also ignore the recent Article 29 Working Party [...]
Nominet Doing Market Research On .Wales and .Cymru
Nominet, which won the contract for .wales and .cymru, is currently conducting market research on the two strings. Nominet have contracted Beaufort Research to help them garner feedback from their stakeholders on how they’d like to see the two Welsh extensions developed. The questionnaire covers a range of topics including policy, pricing and perceived demand. [...]
UK Domain Names Now Available For 1 to 10 Year Registration and Renewal
Nominet turned on multi-year registrations and renewals today, so now UK domain names can be registered or renewed for periods from 1 to 10 years. With this move Nominet brings itself into line with gTLDs and a lot of other ccTLDs, where the 1 to 10 year registration period has been available for some time. [...]
UK Registry Launch Prize Draw To Celebrate 10 Million Registrations
The UK registry, Nominet, recently hit the 10 million domain mark and to mark the event they’re running a prize draw. If you’re a UK resident and you register OR renew a UK domain between now and April 26th you’ll be entered into the daily draw for an iPad. Full details and terms and conditions [...]
Nominet Breaks 10 Million Domains
Nominet, the .uk registry, announced yesterday that they’d broken the 10 million domains mark. The .uk registry is currently the 2nd largest country code extension in the world. Interestingly there were over 2 million domain names registered in each of the last two years and the renewal rate stands at around 70%. Later this year [...]
Nominet Non-Executive Board Election 2012
Nominet’s board elections for 2012 are kicking off today. Up for grabs are two non-executive board posts, though both of the current board members whose seats are being vacated are also standing for re-election. The timeline is pretty simple: Nominations open – 5 March Closing date for nominations – 19 March, 12.00 noon Voting commences [...]
Nominet To Apply For .Wales and .Cymru
In the run up to the launch of new TLDs there were a lot of rumours about which organisations would apply for which strings. Detractors might pick holes in the entire project, but it’s very hard to argue against the merits of new TLDs specifically in the context of cultural linguistic communities that fall outside [...]
Nominet Publish Draft Member Code
Nominet, the domain registry for the .uk ccTLD, has published a draft “member code”. Nominet’s structure means that its registrars are also “members” of the organisation, so this move is quite an interesting one. You can read the draft text on the Nominet site here. From an initial reading the “code” appears to be quite [...]
Nominet Now Offers Registry Services
Well I guess it wasn’t really a secret that Nominet was going to be offering gTLD registry services.. However the new registry services site makes it very clear that they are “open for business” So far there have been rumours about Nominet’s involvement in a number of UK based applications including .london and a .wales, [...]
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