Please attend the Nominet AGM (22nd July)

[Skinner]

Phil who was doing the chat thing, messaged me privately to tell me the whole webcast would be on the nominet site soon as possible. I'll try and clear the audio up a bit once I have it. I've never really tried to clean audio like that up, I've always had source material but I can certainly amplify low bits.

 

[Sam]

Phil who was doing the chat thing, messaged me privately to tell me the whole webcast would be on the nominet site soon as possible. I'll try and clear the audio up a bit once I have it. I've never really tried to clean audio like that up, I've always had source material but I can certainly amplify low bits.

The audio was a joke you would think they would of learned a lesson from the last one...

 

[Systreg]

Now at the direct UK roundtable. Boiling hot. Crap mobile signal again. No free wifi.

Glad you're enjoying it :lol:, did Nominet supply a round table, or did they make do with any old shape?

 

[Stephen]

Thanks

Now at the direct UK roundtable. Boiling hot. Crap mobile signal again. No free wifi.

(from Q10)

Thanks for attending and keeping us that could not be there (and stay married) informed.

Just looked Q & A on Nominet site to see if Nominet picked up that they may have to prove the case for .uk at all
and I found this question and answer sums it up as NO, they are really just looking to get it though.

Are you going ahead with this?

We want to introduce second level domain names, as we believe that it is important to offer a trusted space that is attractive to registrants, and is able to compete with other suffixes, e.g .com or over 1,000 new GTLDS that will soon be available. But we will only do this if and when we have established the most practical and fair way to proceed.

We want anyone with a view on this to take part in our consultation.

In V1 .uk Nominet at the end of the consultation period
started to add "if .uk takes place" a lot I'm not seeing that at the moment.

 

[Nigel]

A lawyer for the Independent Newspaper now saying that Nominet should be contacting existing registrants about .uk despite Nominet insisting they cannot due to DP laws.
(from Q10)

Thanks for the updates - good to hear that the Independent Newspaper are sceptical about nominets DP excuse. Has anyone asked why aren't the DP laws stopping them emailing existing registrants to sell them the .uk domain if this goes through!

 

[AssetDomains]

Has anybody asked if this will be the last consultation if they receive a negative response or will they just keep consulting until they get a yes

 

[viceroy]

Someone from Krystal registrar just said. Co.uk holders should be grandfathered and get .uk for free.

(from Q10)

Thanks for the updates - keep them coming Wish I could be there this time...

 

[Paullas]

has there been any more update or news about the round table.

 

[Paullas]

Some of us are upstairs in the hotel bar discussing it, whilst sipping cocktails


(from iPhone)

Enjoy ..... but did anything else happen at the round table, did the temperature rise further or was it the normal nominet we will get back you never answers.

 

[Paullas]

ok thanks for your updates today, very much appreciated..

 

[Sound]

Are you sure they are pre-fade, sounds like a floor mic or on-camera mic!

They would have had a Sound desk to control all the individual top table mics.
If they were not set to pre fad then the operator was being very lazy leaving all the faders open when only one person was talking.
Was also not a great room for sound with the tribunes sitting under that large dome.
What really surprised me was the way that the meeting was facilitated far to many people shouting and talking over each other and some people clearly not able to understand how an AGM is run or follow an agenda.

 

[Retired_member41]

ok thanks for your updates today, very much appreciated..

+1 I've been really impressed with everyone, apart from the AGM shambles.

 

[GreyWing]

Sorry to hear the dodgy sound, seems nobody heard me arguing with chair fritchie about why this year they didn't hold a vote by show of hands for her reappointment. I told here I thought it was because she would e embarrassed by the lack of hands wanting her to stay. She said it wasn't, so I asked for a vote right ow and she declined, I started laughing at her. Other funny parts but I don't recall them right now.

Farce from moment one, rambling from fritchie then cowley, 10 mins top for general questions, sounds seems crap, no aircon, apart from that usually shambles.

Well done to Alex Bligh, Edwin, Paul keating and others plus Emily Taylor for showing up to front them out.

 

[GreyWing]

What really surprised me was the way that the meeting was facilitated far to many people shouting and talking over each other and some people clearly not able to understand how an AGM is run or follow an agenda.

Not sure you are right, the AGM was 2 hours long and we wanted to ask questions not be rambled to for 2 hours and then sent home for 2 weeks. Two choices, start to fire questions at them or sit there like numpties.

 

[Sound]

Not sure you are right, the AGM was 2 hours long and we wanted to ask questions not be rambled to for 2 hours and then sent home for 2 weeks. Two choices, start to fire questions at them or sit there like numpties.

Did you not read the agenda for the AGM

Its a formal meeting which is held once a year. and is a legal requirement you cant miss bits out because someone wants to start firing off questions.

Also there is no time requirement the AGM could have gone on for as long as it took.

 

[Skinner]

I think Krystal may have just won a little favour here, I'm happy to take my business to someone who favours my views. Maybe feet need to talk, and all the domainers who against .uk should start walking away from the big registrars, nothing hurts like a hole in the wallet

 

[GreyWing]

Did you not read the agenda for the AGM

Its a formal meeting which is held once a year. and is a legal requirement you cant miss bits out because someone wants to start firing off questions.

Also there is no time requirement the AGM could have gone on for as long as it took.

No quite wrong, they have to legally inform you of information, they did that in the booklet they gave us. We had the information on financials etc, we didn't need it again when time was so short.

I don't understand your others points, nobody said they weren't allowed a certain time to do anything.

 

[Hazel Pegg]

Its a formal meeting which is held once a year. and is a legal requirement you cant miss bits out because someone wants to start firing off questions.

It is a legal requirement that certain bods present reports. Which were presented in the paperwork sent out announcing the AGM (with extra copies available in the room for those who hadn't brought their paperwork with them). It is a requirement that those concerned take questions on their reports. There is no requirement to spend 20 mins + giving a verbal rehash of the previously written report.

Also there is no time requirement the AGM could have gone on for as long as it took.

True. Except that the Room had to be vacated at a certain time so if continued the AGM would have had to move elsewhere. Also the Roundtable was timetabled for 4pm but didn't start until 4.30pm due to the AGM running late. I have to question the wisdom of starting the AGM in the afternoon in a year when a certain amount of unusual interest could have been predicted following on from the first direct.uk consultation.

 

[Nigel]

I think Krystal may have just won a little favour here, I'm happy to take my business to someone who favours my views. Maybe feet need to talk, and all the domainers who against .uk should start walking away from the big registrars, nothing hurts like a hole in the wallet

Good point - didn't know much about krystal but will certainly look them up now.

 

[Hazel Pegg]

Hazel's stormed out. (from Q10)

Not quite. When I 'storm' it tends to be very audible. I just wasn't willing to sit through umpteen slides presenting the financial report so left the room to get some air. It was almost tolerable under the trees outside. When I came back 15 mins later the slide show still hadn't finished.