From Lesley Cowley, Chief Executive of Nominet

Welcome to our third edition of Nominet News for 2007.

The months since our previous edition have been extremely busy, exciting and challenging in equal measure.

At the beginning of June we released our Online Services for registrars and registrants. This major project enables customers to manage their accounts online and lays the foundations for significant developments in the future such as the launch of EPP. In this issue we hear from Jay Daley, Director of IT and Eleanor Bradley, Director of Operations about the challenges and successes associated with the data restructure and project implementation. More ›

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 session on participation: only 60 of the 240 ccTLDs are members of the ccNSO, so they are looking for ways to engage the others and to make the community more representative of the global community. Following the debate, Lesley was appointed to chair a working group looking at participation. More ›

From Lesley Cowley, Chief Executive at Nominet

Welcome to our second edition of Nominet News for 2007.

In this issue we consider some of the current market issues surrounding .uk and the international domain space.

I have just returned from Lisbon, where the latest ICANN meeting took place and we have a report on the key issues discussed at that event. I also share some of my predictions for what the UK Internet industry might look like in five years’ time, as presented in my keynote speech to the UK Domain Channel Conference in February. A recent survey brings encouraging news about continued loyalty for .uk domains and we have the inside track on that story for you. More ›

The latest ICANN meeting from 26-30 March in Lisbon, Portugal was a busy and interesting one and the key discussions included the following:

• Changes to WHOIS services
• Registrar Accreditation Agreements
• Regional At-Large Organisations
• ICANN’s Operating Plan and the development of its new Strategic Plan
• .XXX top level domain application rejected
• Internationalised Domain Names

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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 ›

By Lesley Cowley, Nominet

Jay and I attended the latest ICANN meeting from 2-7 December in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

At the meeting, we joined the debate regarding the proposed ICANN strategic plan for 2007-2010. The plan, which was finalised and approved at the meeting, describes the challenges and opportunities that ICANN is likely to face in the coming years and outlines five strategic objectives for the ICANN community. More ›

Thank you to those of you who submitted feedback to us regarding the proposal by Global Name Registry to introduce two-character strings within .name at the second level, and by implication the possible introduction of .uk.name. More ›

From Lesley Cowley, chief executive at Nominet

Welcome to the October edition of Nominet News. A lot has happened in the Internet industry since the last issue, including a new agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the US Department of Commerce. As ever, this puts Internet Governance at the forefront of our minds, especially as the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) fast approaches. More ›

By Emily Taylor, director of legal and policy at Nominet and member of the Advisory Group for the Internet Governance Forum

On 9 October 2006 we hosted “The road to Athens”, a UK Internet governance stakeholder event at the RICS Venues Centre in London, which was instigated, organised and sponsored by Nominet.

A pre-cursor to the upcoming world Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Athens (30 October - 2 November), the forum built on our strategy of playing a leading role in the worldwide discussion of Internet Governance. This sees us working closely with organisations such as the United Nations, ICANN and worldwide domain name registry organisations as well as the IGF. More ›