The ongoing saga of the Nominet board has caught the attention of Kieren McCarthy on his blog, as he notes “yet another extraordinary statement has come out of Nominet.””This time, the chairman Bob Gilbert lambasts a ‘number of false allegations’ made in a resignation letter from former director Jim Davies.”McCarthy gives a background to the saga and discusses the conflict of interest issues that have arisen. “Davies was voted onto the Board as a non-executive director in May 2008 by an increasingly well-organised group of domainers. It wasn’t long before he started criticising the organization, its CEO and the chairman, initially internally, then to its members and then in the press.”McCarthy says it wouldn’t surprise him if, in a few years, Nominet seeks a member of the quickly maturing domaining community onto its board, but for now, “Nominet’s members – companies that have been defiantly lazy and unbothered by all the drama over the past three years” don’t seem all that bothered, “so long as they get cheap domains, the rest of it is a hassle. And with Nominet’s member structure as it is, it does remain susceptible to capture by apathy.”To read Kieren McCarthy’s account of the saga and how Nominet forced Jim Davies off the board, see:
kierenmccarthy.com/2009/01/22/nominet-board-fights-roll-on/A Nominet “statement regarding recent board matters”, that is, on the above matter, is available from:
www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=5965
Nominet Board fight rolls on
The ongoing saga of the Nominet board has caught the attention of Kieren McCarthy on his blog, as he notes “yet another extraordinary statement has come out of Nominet.”