http://www.nominetnews.org.uk/main Nominet News is produced by Nominet, the internet registry for .uk domain names. Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:36:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Lesley Cowley, Chief Executive of Nominet Welcome to our third edition of Nominet News for 2007. The months since our previous edition have been extremely busy, exciting and challenging in equal measure. At the beginning of June we released our Online Services for registrars and registrants. This major project enables customers ... http://www.nominetnews.org.uk/main/2007/08/welcome-august-2007/ On 10 June 2007 we made a fundamental change to the way we store our data. This change was essential to allow us to move forward and develop robust online services, implement new services such as EPP and prepare for new products. This restructuring of our database systems ... http://www.nominetnews.org.uk/main/2007/08/online-services-interview-with-jay-daley-and-eleanor-bradley/ The latest ICANN meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico was varied and interesting and the key discussions included the following: Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) Lesley Cowley, our CEO, is a member of this organisation that is responsible for developing and recommending global policies relating to country-code top-level domains to ICANN's ... http://www.nominetnews.org.uk/main/2007/08/report-from-icann-puerto-rico/ We conducted our third registrar satisfaction survey in the Spring and we now have the results. As with previous surveys, our aim was to give all our members and registrars the opportunity to tell us how satisfied they are with our customer facing support teams. 307 customers completed the web-based ... http://www.nominetnews.org.uk/main/2007/08/encouraging-news-from-our-latest-registrar-survey/ On 5 June 2007 Margaret Hodge MBE MP, Minister for Industry and the Regions unveiled the Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2007, as part of an initiative by Nominet, DTI and key parliamentarians to create a UK Internet Governance Forum. The Best Practice Challenge will recognise organisations, groups or individuals ... http://www.nominetnews.org.uk/main/2007/08/nominet-launches-best-practice-challenge-2007/ We are very pleased to announce that Lesley Cowley, our CEO, has been awarded the First Woman of Technology in the 2007 First Women Awards. The awards, organised by the CBI and Real Business magazine in association with Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets, celebrate women who are trailblazers and pioneers in ... http://www.nominetnews.org.uk/main/2007/08/lesley-cowley-awarded-first-woman-of-technology-2007/ We have entered into a partnership with Oxford Brookes University to develop anti-abuse technology that will help protect more than 6 million UK domain names, registrant data and the UK Internet as a whole. The partnership is being supported by the Department of Trade and Industry through a Knowledge ... http://www.nominetnews.org.uk/main/2007/08/nominet-teams-up-with-oxford-brookes-to-fight-domain-name-fraud/ Nominet Chief talks domains (video interview) ZDNet.co.uk - 1 August 2007 Six million .uk domains sold ZDNet.co.uk - 6 July 2007 Domain name scammers target uk.biz The Register - 17 July 2007 Red tape "holding back" next-generation Internet Silicon.com - 8 June 2007 Nominet and Oxford Brookes team up to fight domain name fraud ITPro.co.uk - 25 April 2007 http://www.nominetnews.org.uk/main/2007/08/nominet-in-the-news-august/ A death penalty for spammers? No, the solution is social change The Guardian - 16 August 2007 Top 10 e-commerce developments of the decade The Register - 16 July 2007 One laptop per child eyes September launch, bigger price tag ITPro.co.uk - 27 April 2007 Most workers to favour IM as comms tool by 2013 ITPro.co.uk - ... http://www.nominetnews.org.uk/main/2007/08/other-internet-news-august/