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RSS NominetCIO Job Report: Movers and shakers
News Nominet, the internet registry for dot-uk domain names, is advertising for a director of IT based in Oxford with a £100,000 salary. Let silicon.com keep you up to date with all the latest CIO job moves and changes with... [27 Jan 2009]
Icann opens a can of worms
News However, a spokesperson for Nominet, the organisation that runs the .uk TLD, told ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that applying to set up a new TLD would involve "a significant investment". Nominet's spokesperson... [30 Jun 2008]
.uk branches out to fund "worthwhile" web
News Nominet has announced the Nominet Foundation will be launched this summer, with initial funding of £5m. According to a Nominet statement, the charitable organisation will promote... [18 Jan 2008]
Six-millionth dot-uk domain sold
News UK businesses setting up online are choosing dot-uk domains in preference to anonymous dot-com addresses, according to domain registry Nominet, which sold the six-millionth dot-uk domain last week to a Merseyside builder. [09 Jul 2007]
Red tape "holding back" next-generation internet
News European businesses are being held back from migrating to IP version 6 due to the way IP addresses are being allocated, according to the director of IT at the UK internet registrar, Nominet. Nominet's IT... [18 Jun 2007]
In brief: Top wi-fi, zombie attack, paradise lost, malware costs
News Back on Earth, and blazing an entirely different trail, Lesley Cowley, CEO of web names company Nominet, has scooped the First Woman of Technology 2007 award, organised by the CBI. London is the world's top wi-fi city,... [15 Jun 2007]
Botnets beware: Nominet cleans up UK domains
News Nominet - which administers dot-uk domain names - is collaborating with Oxford Brookes University to find methods to identify abuse of the domain name system (DNS) and registration data stored on its 'Whois' directory. [26 Apr 2007]
Hosepipe site makes web history
News Internet domain name registry Nominet has revealed that the number of web addresses ending with dot-uk has now passed the five million mark. When it was founded in 1996, Nominet registered 2,000 dot-uk... [25 May 2006]
UK companies told to embrace .eu domains
News Registrar Nominet told silicon.com UK applications for dot-eu domains account for less than one in 10. Nominet said it's likely UK companies are standing by the value of their dot-uk brands. However, a... [22 Feb 2006]
Domain scammers hit for $2.3m for UK sting
News Brad Norrish and Chesley Rafferty copied personal information from the Whois listings of Nominet, the dot-uk domain registrar. The pair were found guilty of "flagrant" disregard for Nominet's copyright... [03 Jan 2006]
iTunes.co.uk tug-of-war ends
News Ben Cohen, former teenage dot-com millionaire, has given up his fight to regain the iTunes.co.uk domain, according to dot-uk registry Nominet. Nominet company solicitor Edward Phillips said on Monday... [23 Nov 2005]
UK's 'worst' spammer banged up
News Francis-Macrae was arrested after threatening Nominet UK, the registry that controls the dot-uk domain. Nominet had warned businesses not to fall for the bogus invoices being sent by Francis-Macrae. He... [17 Nov 2005]
UK on web address buying spree
News According to domain name registry Nominet, there are now more than 4.2 million registered dot-uk web addresses. This has now risen to an average of 110,000 per month, which Nominet said is the equivalent... [18 Aug 2005]
Nominet claims victory in iTunes.co.uk dispute
News Internet domain names registrar Nominet has been handed a victory in its court case with entrepreneur Benjamin Cohen, who had disputed a Nominet ruling ordering him to give the iTunes.co.uk address to... [05 Aug 2005]
iTunes.co.uk owner will see Nominet in court
News The row over the ownership of the iTunes.co.uk domain name will now see domain name registrar Nominet taken to court. Nominet recently decreed that current iTunes.co.uk owner, Benjamin Cohen, should hand... [16 Jun 2005]
