Vote Invincible!

[Lucky Luke]

If I had a TAG, you'd have mine too

 

[AssetDomains]

Invincible may take the odd argument to far on the forum but he genuinely does seem to love domains and always seems to be at nominet public events and engaging with policy discussions etc so would probably make a great board member.

Don't have many domains on my TAG but you have my vote for what its worth
If there's any strategy that can help in terms of choice of second preference etc might be worth saying so here

 

[PoshTiger]

The role of an NED is to challenge, check and measure the board.

Then I can't think of anyone better for this role, he's relentless.

Got my vote too, not really worth much though.

 

[Murray]

How do you feel about dropcatching? would you like to help influence a change or start a discussion regarding the current .uk domain expiry process

I may be wrong, but I think I have read before that you don't like the current system.

 

[Retired_Member39]

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[Whois-Search]

This is why you need to put David FIRST on the ballot paper (see numbers in bold):


Dickie Armour – Fibranet Services Ltd - 46,421
Proposed by: – Paragon Internet Group Ltd - 102,490
Seconded by: – LCN.com Ltd - 202,898


Volker Greimann - Key-Systems GmbH - 104,694
Proposed by: - EuroDNS SA - 16,010
Seconded by: - Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd - 8448


Paul Barnett - ICUK Computing Services Ltd - 11,702
Proposed by: - UK2 Limited - 177,462
Seconded by: - 4D Data Centres Limited - 3831


Phil Kingsland
Proposed by: Daily Internet Services Limited - 106,429
Seconded by: Nom-IQ Limited - 8290


Rob Golding - Astutium Ltd - 5169
Proposed by: - FidoNet Registration Services Ltd - 1715
Seconded by: - KDA Web Services Ltd - 1398


David Thornton: - David Thornton - 1206
Proposed by: - Mr Andrew Bennett - 1471
Seconded by: - Mr Tom McFarlane - 1204


Statements: http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/ned_director_candidate_statements_2015.pdf
Voting rights: http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/voting_rights_nominet_2015.pdf

Unless you want everything controlled by large registrars...

 

[DaveLeeds]

My vote is in. Good luck.

 

[Retired_member41]

The voting numbers quoted above, are they pretty much it, or do the people with the big numbers have connections to other people also?

I only ask as I've just been shown a calculation based upon people who will probably vote for David, and he has over 400,000, would that give him a chance?

 

[Whois-Search]

The largest registrars (those with 10% of all votes) are subject to a 3% cap.

See 4.3 on: http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/58367_votingrightspolicy17052012_0.pdf

In the 2014 election 397 members voted:

http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/NominetAGM2014ElectionsPopularis_2.pdf

However you need to get over the quota at 479,246 to win

3% of stage 1 total 1,437,735 = 43,132

So you need 11.1 large registrars to get over the quota (33.3%)

In reality though you might only get say five large registrars to vote for you (Dickie has three already) and the rest of the vote is made up from 386 other members

A lot of domainers have voting rights around 5k - 20k therefore you only need a few of those to counter one large registrar or 50 votes like that to hit the quota

 

[Retired_member41]

So if say you have someone getting votes as follows, which are under the 10% all the votes count

eg

200,000 from 1 member
100,000 from another
40,000 from another all these count, as well as the multitude of other members making up to say 400,000?

I know Invincible hates my dumb questions, but it is interesting and not everyone can compute things in the same way.

I've been told he will get in but I just can't see how if the big 3's second votes are for each other?

 

[Whois-Search]

Hitting the quota in each stage is the most important thing to win...

The quota is around 450,000 votes

However no registrar can have more than 45,000 votes

So you need at least 10 large registrars or a mixture of smaller ones to make 450,000

 

[AssetDomains]

How many invincible supporters would likely hit the limit. Are the TAG counts now already taken and if it was something the supporters were comfortable with. Is there any scope to move surplus domains on to trusted members TAGS temporally to boost there voting power

 

[Whois-Search]

The voting rights are calculated on a set date - 25th March 2015 this time:

http://www.nominet.org.uk/whoweare/structure/members/members-voting-rights

Therefore this is it and it won't change:

http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/voting_rights_nominet_2015.pdf

No Domainer will be in the Top 20 registrars and therefore hit the cap (I've checked).

However many of you on this forum have big votes:

Giant Games Ltd 16911
ANY-Web Limited 21376
Mark Adams 18019
Nokta Internet Teknolojileri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. 17551

There are two large registrar 3% votes right there....

 

[Whois-Search]

These are the Acorn members I can see on the voting rights list...

If anyone has a working email / username please let David know.

As Nominet will only give out a snail mail address for members

ANY-Web Limited 21,376
Mark Adams 18,019
Nokta Internet Teknolojileri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. 17,551
Giant Games Ltd (Giraffe.co.uk) 16,911
Coherent Limited 16,329
Really Useful Domains Limited 8377
Total Web Solutions Ltd 8065
Trifega Ltd 7314
Memorable Domains Ltd 6141
Patrick Cummings 5899
Bee Internet Ltd 5747
GWI Solutions Ltd 5702
Shores Ltd 5643
Mr Paul Hughes 4856
Mr George Marshall 4794
TwentyTwentyMedia Limited 4100
Elife Limited 3969
Successful Internet Limited 3825
Top Search Limited 3673
Websitebrokers Limited 3596
Adsonline LLP 3512
Patrick Joleys 3434
SafetyNet Systems Ltd 3424
Mr Chris Poxon 3200
Big Advertising Ltd 3033
Mark Ayres 2833
Mr Denys Ostashko 2635
S Reynolds 2614
D M Priest & Company Ltd 2578
Mr L R Wilson 2567
Trevor LeVoi 2493
Dark Group Ltd 2409
Laughing Banana Enterprises Ltd 2404
Vital Domains Ltd 2332
R Karpis 2300
Ty Hancocks 2299
Paul Marks 2295
Mr Bryon Gibson 2238
Mr Jude O'Kelly 2212
Sarah Baker 2211
Formidavel Ltd 2064
Mr J Pepin 2048
Kevin Adams 2032
John Poller 1968
Glasgow.com Ltd 1954
LOWREG LTD 1947
James Tuplin 1907
Serdinc Yilmaz 1905
Hey.co.uk Limited 1872
Dayline Enterprises Ltd 1842
Mr Benedict Sykes 1833
Mr Steve Walsh & Mr Paul Walsh 1830
Servitor Ltd 1816
Kevin Moore 1783
Stephen Betley 1760
Mr Antony Wright 1759
STENNING LIMITED 1756
Global Publications Ltd 1633
Mr Thomas Reeves 1628
Mr Christopher Bowler 1606
Robert Prime 1598
Tim Hall 1580
Alamex Limited 1541
Monaghan Consultants Ltd 1497
domainspa llc 1491
Darren Cunningham 1490
Velvet Enterprises Ltd 1489
Anthony Ifon 1484
Sam Charles 1480
Mr Andrew Bennett 1471
Mr Peter Colman 1445
Anthony Appleby 1432
Scott McBride 1375
Ben Hardyment 1347
Mr Dale Hubbard 1333
edward pugh 1329
Mrs Helen Sherritt 1318
Alex Jordan 1300
Craig Wistow 1278
Mr K Duckhouse 1235
Mr Jonathan Stock 1231
Millionaire.co.uk Ltd 1222
David Thornton 1206
Mr Lee Owen 1205
Mr Tom McFarlane 1204

 

[aZooZa]

My vote cast for David. Good luck!

 

[martin-s]

They called me today but I said I had already voted.

Sounds like they could do with a bit more training...

 

[Murray]

I said "and what's my name?" Then it was rather awkward.)

Was it like this

 

[Lucky Luke]

That's very poor form. Self serving *******.

 

[ian]

I was once snubbed by them when I suggested that Nominet, who manage all uk domains should be regulated to ensure a fair and transparent operation, because some of their policies are backwards...they didn't like that!

 

[Skinner]

I was busy when they phoned me, they asked if I was planning to vote, I said yes. They didn't ask who for, it was recommended I vote to pass the ordinary resolutions, and read the boards recommendation or statement before voting, then then gave me the dates 31st may and I think 16th June, as was mega busy but thats the gist.