Nominet promises .uk owners it'll listen to feedback on plan to award itself millions... as long as it agrees with it UK internet registry operator Nominet has responded to criticism of its plan to overhaul the distribution of expiring .uk domains by promising to listen to feedback… and then immediately refused to accept a petition calling for the plan to be scrapped. At a testy online roundtable between Nominet’s staff and members at one of …
Sounds to me like Nominet has outlived it's usefulness and that UK domain registrations need to be passed to a company more fit for purpose. Seems like everywhere you look these days someone is lying, cheating, deceiving and conspiring just so they can squirrel money away in their offshore bank accounts.
"the board has stopped publishing minutes and reports, and refuses to break out the different businesses in financial reports "
I just checked out Nominet's Board page and found that, apart from the two youngest members (who apparently haven't had the time yet), all of them are affiliated with PwC, ICANN or HP. Most of the oldest are also on other boards.
Obviously, they have forgotten the job they are supposed to do, and decided that, like ICANN, they have a structure and a market at their disposal, and they are going to make the most of it.
This is the UK, obviously, but I wonder how many of these sleazebags would be Republicans of it were the USA.
Perhaps the Government should step in with a special tax - all the excess revenue from auctions beyond the £4 fee goes to the Exchequer?
That way the UK benefits from a UK resource, denying both Nominet and registrars a get-rich-quick scheme on the back of domains that have value by virtue of being a nice ordering of letters.
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they promised, they listened, they ignored, what's new? Fairly common in some fields (politics always comes to mind as the first example), where those who promise, listen and ignore are PERFECTLY AWARE they're not accountable, and the whole exercise is simply one of many everyday irrelevant steps called "social interaction" (handshakes, smiles and howareyous, etc.) that's supposed to demonstrate how friendly and "engaging" we are.
Which is not to say such hypocrisy should be ignored. But, back to the matter - is nominet accountable?
Politicians are eventually accountable. They face regular elections. As well as getting shouted at a lot in various places.
I suspect the Nominet board have managed the situation so that they are now only accountable to themselves, rather like ICANN. So the bonuses can just keep on rolling in.
I think the problem is that the "eventually" becomes "never", as the election span is much longer than voters' memory. Or rather, politicians' major and minor failures become the new normal. I mean, (where are the snows of yesterday), every single figure from the current gov would have been out of their jobs in the goode olde days. Not because of their incompetence, but because their incompetence is out in the open. Nowadays - so what?
Bradley wrote. “But I am confident that by inviting as many inputs to our thinking as possible to inform how we evolve the .UK domain will ensure it continues to best serve those who rely on it.”
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It's a fucking domain. People rent it by the year to route their websites. What other way does it 'serve' users ?
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