Nominet greed at the expense of the small registrar
I run DropCatcher.co.uk which was the first commercial service for catching .UK domains and has been running for the past 18 years. We have helped many thousands of clients catch their domain of interest. The current process would be fair if Nominet applied the anti-collusion rules properly but they have been allowing people to sign up for multiple accounts in order to game the system. Some would say they have deliberately done this in order to necessitate a change in the process that just coincidentally enriches them and/or the top 5 registrars who sit on the board.
No-one in the industry believes Nominet will take note of the majority of member who submit a response to the consultation and I'm sure they have already decided that an auction model is the way to transfer any remaining iota of revenue out of the small member hands to themselves. My business will be destroyed and Nominet won't give it a second thought.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
