From Lesley Cowley, Chief Executive at Nominet

Hello and Happy New Year to you all. Welcome to the first Nominet News of 2007. In this issue we take a look back at a couple of the highlights from the end of last year and offer a taste of what’s to come.

We have a brief report on the latest happenings at ICANN and its meeting in Sao Paulo, which we attended for the first time as a full member of the country code name support organisation.

Emily Taylor, our Director of Legal and Policy, gives us her thoughts on the outcomes of the Internet Governance Forum and what it will mean for UK Internet users. More ›

You will probably be aware that we have been talking rather a lot about ENUM recently, and that following the recent result of the vote at our EGM, Nominet intends to bid to become the Tier one registry for ENUM in the UK.

But what is ENUM exactly? How will it work? Who will use it? If these are questions you’ve been pondering recently, please read on! More ›