Category: Internet

August 11, 2022

Nominet

Questions I will seek answers to if elected

I’m standing for the Nominet Board. My goals are to rebuild member trust and improve communication. To that end, here are some of the questions I will be seeking answers to if elected. Members Why...

Nominet

What I will do in real terms if elected

In my Nominet Board election statement, I gave two goals: rebuild trust and improve communication. But what does that mean in reality? Here’s what I will do in the job.

August 10, 2022

Nominet

What Nominet must learn from the CyGlass debacle

When Nominet spent £5m buying cybersecurity company CyGlass, it sowed the seeds of its own downfall. Now it needs to learn valuable lessons from that failure.

January 25, 2009

Internet/Journalism

Who loves the Internet more: Obama or the Pope?

It seems that the Internet is catching on with the most powerful men in the world. Both the Pope and the new US president Barack Obama have this week announced new web strategies and told...

January 22, 2009

Internet/Journalism/Nominet

Nominet Board fight rolls on

Yet another extraordinary statement has come out of Nominet – the .uk registry owner – today. This time, the chairman Bob Gilbert lambasts a “number of false allegations” made in a resignation letter from former...

Internet/Journalism

Jennifer Lopez fights cybersquatting case

Singer Jennifer Lopez has filed papers against the owner of jenniferlopez.org and jenniferlopez.net, accusing him of cybersquatting. The two sites are owned by one Jeremiah Tieman who lives in Arizona and uses the sites to...

January 12, 2009

Internet/Journalism

Net marvels: the Obama Inauguration

There’s nothing like a big event to get people thinking, particularly when that event is the inauguration of a president who brings with him the hopes and dreams of a generation. Barack Obama will be...

September 21, 2008

Internet/Journalism/WSIS

The Internet Governance Forum – third time lucky

I was at the United Nations in Geneva last week to watch what was happening to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as it prepares for its third outing, this December in Hyderabad, India. Actually I...

February 18, 2008

Internet/Sex.com

Domainpulse in Vienna

I am going to have to make a determined effort to update this blog more often. I always feel better when I am writing. Anyway, just as an update: I am currently in New Delhi...

February 6, 2008

ICANN/Technology

Hey, ho, Delhi here we go

I’m writing this in that neverworld of an airport waiting for a slightly delayed plane. And, of course, as it always is, that airport is Heathrow. I hate Heathrow. I’ve always hated Heathrow. Even as...