We look forward to welcoming the following members to our UK Registry Advisory Council from September 2025.
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Michael Holmes (Domains in a Box)
Marek Isalski (Faelix Limited)
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Runako Mowatt (IONOS)
Volker Greimann (Key-Systems GmbH)
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We're excited to invite our members to a festive dinner at the Exploring Space gallery at The Science Museum. This year's Christmas will be out-of-this-world!
Register yourself and your guests: members.nominet.uk/event-pos…
Congratulations to Steve Wright (@wright_s) on his election to the @nominet board as our newest Non-Executive Director, and thanks to our candidates Thomas Rickert and David Thornton for taking part. More information to follow.
Members have until 12:00Noon BST on Monday 16th Oct 2023 to proxy vote on all company resolutions ahead of the AGM, next Tues 17th October from Noon – 13:30 BST.
Members can also register to attend, by completing our registration form - nominet.uk/agm2023/
We've just voted in the Nominet board election for former LINX non-exec Steve Wright. He did an excellent job in governance and oversight there and we hope he'll do the same or better at Nominet.
I'm pleased to be a candidate in this year @Nominet board elections! Big thanks to @hostedby20i and @freethoughtnet for nominating me! If you're a Nominet member and we haven't already spoken, drop me a note!
We are pleased to announce that we have three candidates standing for the available seat in the Non-Executive Director election this year.
The candidates are:
Thomas Rickert
David Thornton
Steve Wright
nominet.uk/nominet-confirms-…
I was laid off from Twitter today. I was the designer in charge of our new rebranding to X.
I learned so much in my 2.5 weeks at the company but I’m excited to see where I land next.
If you’re hiring a self taught, junior designer please DM me. Graphic design is my passion!
Community note
This tweet, while an obvious joke, was stolen from a different account and edited slightly to appear as if it were the author’s own attempt at humor. The original poster directly addresses the act.
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Sorry, but archive.org is down temporarily-- working to restore service.
(details: this is our second blast of abusive traffic from an AWS customer today apparently from an AI company harvesting Internet Archive texts at an extreme rate)
#OnThisDay thirty years ago, in 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web software to the public.
Proposed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the web was originally created to allow scientists and institutes from all over the globe who were working on CERN data to share information accurately and quickly.
Find out more: home.cern/news/news/computin…#CERNImpact#CERNandSociety
Initial outcome of Emergency Alert testing (Cell Broadcast): all networks except Three received an alert in my household.
*One* person in a large group of us around the UK received the alert on Three, in Cardiff.
Let's go into why.
#EmergencyAlerts
Our position remains clear. We will not back down on providing private, safe communications. Today, we join with other encrypted messengers pushing back on the UK's flawed Online Safety Bill.
A breakthrough in our investigation came when the team identified a Steam profile in Airman Teixeira's name that led to an Instagram profile with photos of the exact location where leaked docs were photographed — a kitchen countertop in his childhood home. nytimes.com/live/2023/04/13/…