Nominet, the UK domain registry, have announced a pilot of their new "cyber security" service aimed at small business. The new service which is being marketed under the moniker of "Nominet Cyber Assist". The service was first announced back in February. It's not clear if Nominet intend to charge for the service once the 3 month trial period ends. It's also not very … [Read more...] about Nominet Launch Pilot Of Security Service
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Nominet Delegates First Batch of Reserved .uk Domains
While Nominet won't officially be launching "direct UK" until next year they've already started delegating some of the domains. Apparently 69 names were requested by the UK government and the first of these were delegated recently: Nominet has delegated the new second-level .uk domain names royal.uk, princeofwales.uk, supremecourt.uk and jcpc.uk to the Royal Household, the … [Read more...] about Nominet Delegates First Batch of Reserved .uk Domains
Nominet Puts Draft Registrar Agreement Out For Consultation
Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, has published a draft registrar contract for consultation. The registry had been planning a revision of its contracts for some time. Full details of the consultation, as well as the related documents, may be found here. Nominet are currently planning two public sessions to discuss the contract in July, one in London and one in … [Read more...] about Nominet Puts Draft Registrar Agreement Out For Consultation
Nominet Offering Apprenticeships
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. … [Read more...] about Nominet Offering Apprenticeships
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 details of the survey as well as advice for … [Read more...] about Nominet Launch Bullying and Trolling Education Campaign
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 role, Jill will manage Nominet's … [Read more...] about Nominet Appoints Chief Commercial Officer
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 able to attend in person I was trying to follow the … [Read more...] about Transparency Fail – Nominet’s Registrar Meeting On Direct UK
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 November Nominet will be holding … [Read more...] about Nominet To Hold Consultations On “Direct.uk” With Stakeholders
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 letter … [Read more...] about Nominet Sucking Up To Law Enforcement With New Proposals?
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. Oddly … [Read more...] about Nominet Doing Market Research On .Wales and .Cymru