Reza Sobati Nominet Vote

[anthony]

...Coupled with the fact that Nominet throws a party for the top 30 registrars on the day the ballot is received it makes it very difficult for any non preferred candidate to be elected...

That's the system which the members have allowed to happen over the years, you can't do much about that now unfortunately.

As an aside, can't help feeling we're not seeing much of Lesley Cowley these days, seems to be Baroness Fritchie fronting almost everything at the moment.

 

[DarrenTSO]

Coupled with the fact that Nominet throws a party for the top 30 registrars on the day the ballot is received it makes it very difficult for any non preferred candidate to be elected

What party is this?

 

[DomainManagement]

hi there

Hi i will vote but on one condition , you dont pout your lips on photos

by the way may sound a little bit stupid but how do you vote

my be good to drop a link somewhere , or did i miss it


anyway hope your well , wish you all the best , hope you win

Best wishes steve

 

[poetry]

Thank you very much Foz
Steve I'm not sure you have a Tag. You have to be a tagholder to vote.
if you do look in your junk file for a letter from popularis which gives all
the instructions.
As for the point wrt to what the members have allowed I think that is unfair
as I believe the consultation process to be flawed. Currently their legal counsel cannot even guarantee that Nominet will not actively pitch for their preferred candidates!

 

[poetry]

Nominet AGM on 16th May

For a change Nominet are having their AGM outside London. You can register to attend using the link below. This is also the last voting day and for those not wanting to cast their vote electronically you can cast your ballots on the day. whilst their is a webcast and a q and a via internet I often find these cut short and not as impactful as being there on the day. If you can try and make it. Reza
http://www.nominet.org.uk/governance/agm/

 

[Reddy]

Just voted online for you Reza

 

[DomainPortfolio.ukDomainPortfolio.uk is verified member.]

The nominees’ election materials are available at:
www.nominet.org.uk/governance/board/election/.
www.votepopularis.com/nominet using your username and password:
Your user name is: in email
Your password is: in email

Yours sincerely,
Reza Sobati

I don't usually bother with stuff like this, but decided to vote for you anyway, problem is, when I go to the link above and enter my user name and password, it says:

The user name and/or the password that you input have not been recognised! Please try again!

 

[poetry]

voting online

thanks alot systreg, i had the same problem. the username and password
came in an email from popularis so best to search your mailbox. If you can't find it just ask popularis/nominet to resend. chrz for the effort, rgds reza

 

[DomainPortfolio.ukDomainPortfolio.uk is verified member.]

thanks alot systreg, i had the same problem. the username and password
came in an email from popularis so best to search your mailbox. If you can't find it just ask popularis/nominet to resend. chrz for the effort, rgds reza

@ Reza, that's the problem, I have the Popularis email with my user name and password, as above, when I enter the user name and password, it gives an error saying:

The user name and/or the password that you input have not been recognised! Please try again!

Sorry, but if they can't get something basic like that to work, I'm not chasing Popularis to fix it so I can do my vote.

 

[Retired_member41]

Not that it matters to me, but it does interest me a little.

One of those standing from hosteurope/123/webfusion etc was proposed by the guy from heart internet, ok its another member, but as its a company owned and operated by him, is this ok? Should he not be excluded from the vote?

And with all the scandals listed on this web site of late about 123 reg fee's etc and nominet taking it serious, why is the CEO who should have knew what he/company was doing actually standing again and not resigning.

Apologies if these are simple questions, but it seems as long as people/companies/politicians bluff the rules/public etc, they just carry on regardless.

 

[DropCatcher-co-uk]

It's crucial to maximise the chance for Reza to be elected to ONLY vote for him and not award your second and third choice votes to the other two domainer hating candidates. Only place 1 against Reza and DO NOT cast your second and third votes

 

[Retired_member41]

Nice to see you back invincible, bringing clarity as usual

And yes I really should read beyond this forum.

 

[DropCatcher-co-uk]

.....but why do you label Sebastien Lahtinen as "domainer hating"? What are your reasons?

It's good to hear from you Dave, I've so missed our little sparring sessions.

Maybe "domainer hating" was too strong a description but several very informed members I talked to confirm that he's certainly no fan of domainers. The main point that I was making is that for the very reasons that have been comprehensively discussed, let's face it, Reza is a rank 100-1 outsider. If he stands any possible chance of winning, he needs the entire domainer Nominet members to give him their number ones and NOT award any twos or threes.

I guess that I mainly based my opinion of Seb on an exchange I had with him a couple of years back. When I'm pitching a domain, before doing any other research, THE very first thing I do is to pitch the owners of the .org.uk version of the domain.

I pitched BroadbandBritain.co.uk to Seb one of his companies NetConnex owns the .org.uk version. His "full and final" version for my domain was £50 (fifty pounds) because that "represented a decent profit for me". Oh how I love it when people tell me what profit they perceive I'm making!

On an aside, web designers are probably the very worst buyers for domains. They send me stupid emails saying, "I'll give you ten pounds as that represents a 100% markup for you". I replied to one recently "you make percentage markups that I can only dream of. A typical website costs you around 16 pence to design, 12p for the electricity for your Apple Macbook and 4 pence pro rata contribution towards your DreamWeaver licence."

And by the way, I've never been away Dave. I just feel that it's a better use of my time to spend any spare few hours pitching to end-users resulting in a few thousand pounds worth of sales than speding a few hours on the board and getting embroiled in petty arguments that aren't going to make me a single penny. Sorry if that sounds mercenary but I've got an expensive ex-wife to keep up, an even more expensive girlfriend, private school fees and a mansion in Spain with two swimming pools (indoor and outdoor) whose air conditioning bill alone in the summer runs at two grand a month!

 

[anthony]

I'm wondering if Nominet are going to come clean themselves at the AGM and tell everyone how much money was given to Emily Taylor after her dismissal claim last year? Perhaps too we might hear who within Nominet was involved in her case, and who was to blame?

 

[DomainPortfolio.ukDomainPortfolio.uk is verified member.]

Just realised why my voting user name and password didn't work, when I searched my emails for "Popularis", I clicked the first email in the list, problem being, that was the 2010 voting email and I used those out of date details :lol:

I just did another search and now see the 2012 voting email, used those details to do my vote, and as suggested above by Chris, I voted only for Reza and didn't tick any of the other candidate boxes, so 1606 votes coming your way, Reza

 

[anthony]

Do HR issues normally get discussed at AGMs to that kind of level? Why haven't you asked her or does she have a restraining order out on you?

I have no issue with her at all, very good luck to the lady, she proved her case very well and was compensated accordingly.

Your fascination with her reminds me of this so much.

Your fascination with my posts is more alarming than your childish video!

 

[seb]

Chris I don't know Thomas Vollrath but why do you label Sebastien Lahtinen as "domainer hating"? What are your reasons?

Thanks for the comment. I don't think anyone has described me as a 'domainer hater' before, so I'm slightly unsure where that comes from. The term is widely used to mean lots of different things from site development (I'm no huge fan of PPC sites that basically add no value; but I've never sought to close them down) through to dropcatching and buying/selling domains. There are lots of policy arguments around the issue of domains, how they are obtained, used and disposed of that need to be tackled in the wider space so I don't think it's a domaining issue.

If I was running a business focussing on monetising traffic at the scale you lot do, I would be frankly far more worried about the impact of new TLDs on the value of domains. There are changes in every industry that affect your business - in mine it's (indirectly) electricity prices - in yours it's domain value and acquisition. I think there are many domainers that have realised this and adapt to optimise their position. Trying not to have the debate just won't fly on the modern Internet.

I do recognise I'm not from the domainer community and therefore are unlikely to be most of your preferred candidate. I know a few domainers support me for being independent (and that means a lot to me).

(no I don't spend much time on Acorn but given this thread was pointed to me, I thought I should do you the courtesy of a response; whether you will vote for me or not - you're still stakeholders of Nominet and if I am on the board, deserve an opportunity to air concerns you have to me. I've met some of you at Nominet events some privately on unrelated issues.)


seb

 

[poetry]

reza at agm

i'm headed off to the agm if you haveany questions you wish me to ask email [email protected]. today is also the las day to vote bst rgds reza

 

[anthony]

Did you ever get that copy of whatever it was that you were waiting to be published ages ago? I've forgotten what exactly it was but I don't remember you mentioning that you had, only that you were waiting on a copy. It was relating to her and possibly a tribunal.

You were very dismissive of the matter at the time, but if you are interested to know the background to this case (which I doubt), pay for the info yourself!

Someone at Nominet was ultimately responsible for what happened to her, who made the call on that is very interesting, especially if they're still in their job!

 

[poetry]

AGM Results

279 members voted, 10.13% of the electorate and 6,811,094 votes were cast, 57.85% of the total number of votes.

Sebastian Lahtinen 745633

Reza Sobati 262126

Thomas Vollrath 357700

http://www.nic.uk/digitalAssets/58358_Popularis_boardelection_results_170512.pdf

Thanks guys for the votes! the total is extremely impressive given that alot of the votes cast for me came from individuals with 1-3k votes. It is a testament to the loyalty of the domain community and my apreciation cannot be overstated.
I was the only member at the AGM ( aside from andrew bennett)and tried to voice as many concerns as you had put to me a video of which is online.
I reminded nominet that it is their fiduciary duty to not ignore any section
of the domain community and will continue to do so despite the new 'muzzley'
codes of practise.