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| Written by Bret Fausett | |
| Thursday, 24 April 2008 | |
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Over on the Nanog mailing list , IETF regular Randy Bush, known as much for his extreme language and hot temper as his technical acumen and support for the Internet in the developing world, asks voting members of Nominet to help keep "the greedy domainer slime" off the Nominet Board of Directors. "Greedy domainer slime" is obviously supposed to tell you something important about motives, but it doesn't. The back story is much more complicated. As it turns out, Nominet, the registry that runs .UK makes a lot of money. Underscore "a lot of money." Much more money than it needs to run the registry. And it's sitting on large piles of cash. Three domainers are apparently running for the Board on a pledge to lower the .UK registration fees and redistribute Nominet's excess funds back to the registrants who paid those sums in the first place. The sitting Nominet Board of Directors is quite partial to its pile of cash and wishes to keep it. It now pledges to redistribute some of those funds "for educational or research initiatives." The domainer community apparently has the temerity to think the registrants in .UK should get some of those excess funds back as a rebate.So yes, this might be about greed, but if it is about greed, then the greed runs on both sides. The sitting Nominet Board believes it should be able to charge, or tax, your domain names for amounts it knows are in excess of its costs, so that Nominet, in its infinite wisdom, can bestow those funds on the UK Internet community. The domainers believe that inidividual registrants should decide what they want to do with the excess funds. If you're a voting member of Nominet, you can decide which side of that debate you're on.
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  written by Lesley Cowley, April 25, 2008  written by jeff schneider, April 29, 2008
These greedy slimy developers, they have quite the nerve developing all these sites, Its becoming an epidemic !
 written by Michele, May 20, 2008
I know this is an old post, but I'm really surprised by your post. I covered some of the topics that were causing issues here:
http://www.isquattedyour.eu/20...ld-world/ As Lesley points out, there's a lot more to it than some people would like others to believe Regards Michele Write comment
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Firstly, the proposal to create a charitable foundation had considerable support from our local internet community.
Secondly, the Nominet Board is unable to distribute Nominet's surpluses in any way, neither can we change prices without a 75% member vote in favour. These are two of the many features of our unique constitution.
Our most recent legal advice on our constitution and a recent letter to all members from the Board are published at:
http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=5010
Regards,
Lesley