At our Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on 22 November 2006 our members voted to expand our scope, enabling us to bid to run other Internet registry services, such as UK ENUM. Our members also voted in favour of enabling electronic voting and communication, to enable simplified voting and increased participation.

The UK Internet market has changed significantly since Nominet was founded in 1996 and the opportunities and challenges we now face are significantly different. Our original Memorandum of Association was deliberately drawn up to be very narrow protecting the company’s unique position in the UK Internet industry.

Our members have now voted in favour of these changes, recognising that we now have opportunities that they would like us to be able to address.

This gives us the opportunity to bid to become the UK Tier one registry for ENUM, an internationally approved method for connecting the telephone communications network to the Internet, utilising the domain name system. It also opens the door for us to investigate other appropriate Internet registry technologies and their applications.

This is an important change for Nominet and strengthens our position in the international domain name market. We are now equipped to meet the challenges facing us, and to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the market, for the benefit of our membership. We would like to sincerely thank all of our members who supported us in making these changes.

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