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We have just received the following announcement from Nominet:
“We are pleased to report the outcomes of our AGM held on 30 April 2008.
A formal poll was held, using weighted voting, for the election of
non-executive directors. Jim Davies and Gordon Dick were elected to serve
on the Board of Nominet UK for a period of […]

A success for TWS barring a High Court Appeal and a success it would seem for the lawyer Jim Davies who is a candidate Board Elections.

clipped from www.theregister.co.uk

Secondly, the panel considered the crucial (and more broadly relevant) question of how much control TWS had over what appeared on the parking site. It accepted that TWS […]

It happens to virtually everyone with an email address these days . Its often known as a “joe job” where a spammer “hijacks” a person or organisation’s domain name when sending out UCE mails. All the spammer has to do is replace your email address in the “reply-to” field of his spam and all of […]

We have added a new page to the main web site, giving more information on UK domain names operated by Nominet and the terms used, including a section on detagging and detagged domains.
http://www.weycrest.co.uk/nominet-domains.php

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Nominet is the organisation responsible for most domains ending in .uk. There are a number of second level domains over which  it does not have any control. These include .nhs.uk, .gov.uk and .ac.uk, domains of the NHS, government and academic organisations respectively. However Nominet is responsible for the following:
me.uk - personal domains
org.uk  - organisational domains
ltd.uk […]

Comite Interprofessionel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC) win rights to champagne.co.uk:
http://www.nic.uk/digitalAssets/19724_champagne.pdf
Nominet DRS not convinced verbatim.co.uk is an “abusive registration” in the hands of the current registrant, though conceding the complainant, Verbatim Limited has rights to the mark, identical the domain name:
http://www.nic.uk/digitalAssets/19720_Verbatim.pdf 
Also (on appeal) Lockheed Martin fail to win ukskunkworks.co.uk from a UK reseller of bongs:
http://www.nic.uk/digitalAssets/18073_ukskunkworks_appeal.pdf

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Nominet the UK Domain Name Registry, responsible for co.uk, org.uk and me.uk domains, recently launched a consultation on how it should be governed, prior to changing its articles of association.
The consultation ran for 3 months, from 2 February - 9 May 2007
Weycrest CEO -  Paul Lee responded to the consultations expressing reservations about enlarging the […]

If you want to transfer your UK domain name to another person, either because you have “sold” it or you no longer require it, you will need to contact Nominet as normally a “change of registrant” fee of £10 (plus VAT) applies:
More information can be found here:
http://www.nic.uk/registrants/maintain/transfer/
Information on transfers that are “chargeable” can be […]