Nominet has taken over management of the Pitcairn Islands’ ccTLD, .pn, judging by its web site and IANA records updated this week. The site at nic.pn says UK registry Nominet is going to modernize the registry to use the EPP standard — this should make .pn accessible to thousands of registrars — and implement DNSSEC. […]
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The person Nominet barred from standing in its non-executive director election this year says he was unfairly excluded and intends to sue. Lawyer Jim Davies, who was a Nominet director over a decade ago and stood unsuccessfully last year, said on his blog that he has asked Nominet to suspend the election, slated for September. […]
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Nominet has revealed the three candidates who will stand for election for a non-executive directorship on its board this year. The candidates are Thomas Rickert, David Thornton and Steve Wright. German lawyer Rickert is a familiar face in ICANN policy-making circles, currently as a representative of the ISPs constituency on the GNSO Council. He’s head […]
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Nominet director Phil Buckingham has stepped down from Nominet’s board of directors just a few months before his seat comes up for reelection. Nominet said he was leaving the board for personal reasons immediately. He was a member-elected non-executive director approaching the end of a three-year term. He will not stand for reelection, Nominet said. […]
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Verisign appears to be getting out of the new gTLD back-end registry services business, with Identity Digital taking over most of its dot-brand contracts. Since 2018, over 80 gTLDs have moved from Verisign’s back-end to a competitor or have been removed from the DNS altogether. Over the same period, it hasn’t won any business from […]
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.uk registry Nominet has opened up its 2023 elections for a new non-executive director. The company is looking for a NED able to serve a three-year term starting at the AGM in the fourth quarter. Director Phil Buckingham’s current three-year term is up in September. You don’t need to be a Nominet member to apply, […]
