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 ›

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 development that we have undertaken.

We spoke to Jay Daley, our Director of IT and Eleanor Bradley, our Director of Operations to find out more about this project… 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 ›

On 11 June 2007 we will be releasing a major upgrade to our registrar systems. This upgrade includes:

• a significant restructuring of all the database systems that underpin our registry support services.
• new Online Services functionality.
• new automaton templates and commands.

The data restructure now provides a fully integrated view of customer data. The benefits of this new data structure are that it: 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 ›