Nominet chief tells domainers to grow up - Register

[GreyWing]

Haha on that blog "I'm trying to sensibly debate "domainers should grow up" story with people who keep insulting me. Ironic?"

Then from this forum....

"I wouldn't say it's anti-domainer. Lesley had some strong words, I just reported them and added a bit of context.

If you ignore the jokey tabloid headline,"

Mate you are on another planet, bit of a split personality there me thinks. And you still think you are a serious journalist.

 

[retired_member12]

Or even a dolphins back....

http://twitter.com/DomainIncite/status/22429968836

Ha ha, nice one Andrew, like it!

 

[Whois-Search]

Are dolphins significant in some way?

I must confess, I've been drawing a blank whenever aquatic mammals show up in threads. It's basicallly an in-joke, right?

You know exactly where that came from Kevin:

Bennett has taken issue with Kennedy for joining in with a mocking assertion about his aquatic love for dolphins.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/15/nominet_election_campaign/

Maybe it is time El Reg journalists grew up a bit and started deleting such rubbish?

Instead of being puppets for someone else and taking the bait....

 

[KevDI]

You know exactly where that came from Kevin:


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/15/nominet_election_campaign/

Maybe it is time El Reg journalists grew up a bit and started deleting such rubbish?

Instead of being puppets for someone else and taking the bait....

You've just linked to a Kieren McCarthy article.

I'm not Kieren McCarthy. Really. Our names start with the same letters, and we write about the same things, but we genuinely are two different people.

 

[Systreg]

Don't trust him Andrew, splash some water at him :lol:

 

[Whois-Search]

You've just linked to a Kieren McCarthy article.

I linked to the source of the in-joke...Which you seemed to find funny on Twitter?

Though to fully understand the complexity of UKNOT and the 'old guard' you would need to have been there....

Anyway had enough of the point scoring now - please keep writing the articles and we will be sure to comment. Maybe next time come and ask us for an interview first to see what we think about Nominet's comments - that goes for Kieren to.

 

[GreyWing]

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[KevDI]

I linked to the source of the in-joke...Which you seemed to find funny on Twitter?

Honestly, I thought it was funny because I thought it was just a Jeff Williams-style nutter ranting about some nonsense, which I find funny. It didn't occur to me for a second that something about dolphins may be relevant to our industry.

Anyway had enough of the point scoring now - please keep writing the articles and we will be sure to comment. Maybe next time come and ask us for a interview first to see what we think about Nominet's comments - that goes for Kieren to.

Okay. I'm always interested in hearing from every interested party.

But, question, who is "us"?

Is it you, or is it the people who agreed with Lesley?

 

[Whois-Search]

Honestly, I thought it was funny because I thought it was just a Jeff Williams-style nutter ranting about some nonsense, which I find funny. It didn't occur to me for a second that something about dolphins may be relevant to our industry.

Ok all the dolphin story is about is some clever geek who changes people's email headers on the UKNOT mailing list to things like this:

Received: from [12.130.106.86] (helo=twat.domainers.uk)
X-DolphinSex: yes please!

I guess though I didn't do myself any favours by pushing it along a bit:
http://dolphins.me.uk/2010/06/21/campaign-day-28/

Okay. I'm always interested in hearing from every interested party.
But, question, who is "us"?
Is it you, or is it the people who agreed with Lesley?

It had been the first proper UK domain name conference for three years.

The last time an event like that was held was Domain Focus by Sedo in Sep 2007:
http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2007/august.htm

The last time Namedrive sponsored an event was Domain Channel in Feb 2007:
http://www.dnjournal.com/articles/events/ukdomainchannel2007.htm

Let's just say the events didn't go too well and they lost money.

So to face the critics (like Nominet) we actually needed good publicity from the event rather than bad? As for who you could have asked for interview take your pick:

Gregg Mcnair, PPX.com
Brian Gilbert, Thomason Management Inc.
Rob Taylor, Hey.co.uk
Matt Mansell, CEO, Domainmonster
James Tuplin, NameDrive,
Edwin Hayward, Memorable Domains
Tessa Holcomb, PPX.com
Bryan Lip, Director of Partnerships for the Expedia Affiliate Network
Emma Meheux, Oooba.com
Chris Angus, warlockmedia.com
Sam Allcock, Director of Custard Media & PR Fire

Source: http://meetdomainers.co.uk/agenda/