On 10 June 2007 we made a fundamental change to the way we store our data. This change was essential to allow us to move forward and develop robust online services, implement new services such as EPP and prepare for new products. This restructuring of our database systems was the largest single technical […]
The latest ICANN meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico was varied and interesting and the key discussions included the following:
Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO)
Lesley Cowley, our CEO, is a member of this organisation that is responsible for developing and recommending global policies relating to country-code top-level domains to ICANN’s Board. Lesley led a […]
We conducted our third registrar satisfaction survey in the Spring and we now have the results. As with previous surveys, our aim was to give all our members and registrars the opportunity to tell us how satisfied they are with our customer facing support teams. 307 customers completed the web-based questionnaire and we would like […]
On 5 June 2007 Margaret Hodge MBE MP, Minister for Industry and the Regions unveiled the Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2007, as part of an initiative by Nominet, DTI and key parliamentarians to create a UK Internet Governance Forum. The Best Practice Challenge will recognise organisations, groups or individuals that have worked to deliver […]
We are very pleased to announce that Lesley Cowley, our CEO, has been awarded the First Woman of Technology in the 2007 First Women Awards. The awards, organised by the CBI and Real Business magazine in association with Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets, celebrate women who are trailblazers and pioneers in business - genuine “glass ceiling […]
We have entered into a partnership with Oxford Brookes University to develop anti-abuse technology that will help protect more than 6 million UK domain names, registrant data and the UK Internet as a whole. The partnership is being supported by the Department of Trade and Industry through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) award. […]
Nominet Chief talks domains (video interview)
ZDNet.co.uk - 1 August 2007
Six million .uk domains sold
ZDNet.co.uk - 6 July 2007
Domain name scammers target uk.biz
The Register - 17 July 2007
Red tape “holding back” next-generation Internet
Silicon.com - 8 June 2007
Nominet and Oxford Brookes team up to fight domain name fraud
ITPro.co.uk - 25 April 2007
A death penalty for spammers? No, the solution is social change
The Guardian - 16 August 2007
Top 10 e-commerce developments of the decade
The Register - 16 July 2007
One laptop per child eyes September launch, bigger price tag
ITPro.co.uk - 27 April 2007
Most workers to favour IM as comms tool by 2013
ITPro.co.uk - 26 June 2007
Web retailers still […]
.Mobi owners often point to the future of handheld devices as examples of the growing market and need for their ‘lite’ versions of the web. The Register is reporting that Motorola (not a ’sponsor’ of mobi) has teamed up with a company called MicroVision to put laser projectors into their mobile phones.
Practical use of […]
David Brayshaw over at DomainFocus is holding the first ever .UK live domain auction, with Sedo running the auction action. Our picks of the names to be auctioned in the hour (scheduled!) long auction are as follows:
Temp.co.uk
Food.co.uk
Fly.co.uk
Sport.co.uk
Drink.co.uk
Phones.co.uk
Last years event was under the banner of ‘DomainChannel’ and was held at the Park Plaza Hotel in London, […]