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Nominet Shutters Member Forum Without Warning

September 22, 2020 by Michele Neylon

Nominet is holding its AGM today. As expected the event is being held online and is being streamed.

A short time ago Nominet’s CEO announced that they were closing the member forum with immediate effect.

So the only online space where Nominet members, staff and board could interact has now gone:

Prior to the launch of the forum several years ago Nominet members used to have access to mailing lists, but these were shutdown years ago.

The forum was a space where members could interact with each other and with Nominet staff. While not all interactions were civil and some people seemed to use it as a platform for beating up on Nominet on a practically constant basis it was a platform where some level of participation and dialogue was possible. That is now gone.

I suspect reactions to this decision will be quite mixed, as the number of “active” members of the forum was always very small. So for many Nominet members, which includes registrars and others, the existence or not of the forum probably won’t make any difference to them.

Others have already started voicing their annoyance or general displeasure:

Nominet forum to close with immediate effect … @russellhaworth has decided to shut down members who engage in debate !

— Andrew Bennett (@whois_search) September 22, 2020

I think that was ill-advised. I always appreciated the forum and the discussions going on there. Many posts in the past alerted me to issues I may not have been aware of until later, or at all.
A valuable resource is now gone. Not cool!

— Volker Greimann (@vgreimann) September 22, 2020

Long gone are @Nominet mailing lists and now they announce the members forum immediate closure at #NominetAGM. Yet again showing they don't want to communicate with members unless you're at a "secret" big player meeting.

— Chris Burton (@burtyb) September 22, 2020

Slow hand clap for @Nominet pic.twitter.com/sKu49kO9Qo

— Rob Taylor (@RobDotUk) September 22, 2020

During the AGM some members tried to open the decision to some form of debate or possible poll, but the Chair has not allowed them to proceed.

Nominet will probably get some flak for this decision and how it was made and announced in media outlets like The Register, though whether it will have any longterm impact on the organisation is debatable.

Filed Under: nominet Tagged With: nominet, registrars, registries

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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