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  • Nominet supports Google in rollout of DNSSEC

    Simon McCalla, 21 March 2013
    This week, Google announced that its Public DNS service fully supports DNSSEC validation. From their blog post:

  • Joining forces to fight cyber crime

    Lesley Cowley, 15 March 2013
    I am very pleased to have been invited to represent Nominet on a new Cyber Crime Reduction Partnership.

  • Ten important internet and world-wide-web birthdays for your diary

    Simon McCalla, 14 January 2013
    Since there have been so many major breakthroughs and inventions in the history of the internet it is hard to pinpoint the beginning of its existence to one particular day. We’ve summarised some of the top milestones that have been recognised in the past.

  • Direct.uk domain name consultation - update and clarifications

    Phil Kingsland, 29 October 2012
    As the direct.uk consultation continues, we wanted to provide another update on progress, while clarifying some of the issues that have been raised so far.

  • Direct.uk domain name consultation – an update

    Phil Kingsland, 10 October 2012
    Following the announcement earlier this month of a consultation into the potential introduction of a new direct.uk service, we wanted to provide an update on progress so far.

  • Ensuring Nominet’s infrastructure is fit for the future

    Simon McCalla, 28 September 2012
    Nominet’s role as trusted guardian of a crucial part of the UK internet means that we are committed to ensuring our systems and services are underpinned by the best technical infrastructure available. With significant changes and new opportunities for our industry on the horizon it is vital to ensure our technology can continue to deliver.  

  • Nominet’s Data Quality Improvement programme

    Eleanor Bradley, 3 August 2012
    Over the last year we have been running a major initiative to spring clean the information we hold for .uk domain names. When you register a domain name with us you enter into a contract that includes a requirement, amongst other things, that the information you give us is true and up to date (the same also applies for a .com).

  • The Domain Business

    Phil Kingsland, 11 November 2011
    Yesterday at our annual .uk registrar conference we launched the Domain Business, our new site which takes the place of our annual Domain Name Industry Report. It brings you all the latest domain name statistics and trends. The report shows that .uk registrations grew by 10.5% over the past 12 months, bringing the total number of domains to 9.7 million by the end of September 2011. .uk also maintains its position as the world’s second largest country code registry after Germany’s .de.

  • A dot London is born

    Phil Kingsland, 28 September 2011
    Last week London & Partners announced that they’re looking at securing a .london domain, taking advantage of a recent change in the rules that will transform what comes ‘after the dot’ forever. At its last meeting, ICANN - the international body responsible for looking after the internet domain name infrastructure (.com, .co.uk and the like) decided that a number of generic top level domains (or gTLDs) could be created.

  • Evolving Internet governance for the new connected world

    Lesley Cowley, 23 September 2011
    ‘Internet governance’ means different things to different people, and indeed the term has evolved over time.  In the early days of the internet, the job was to establish the basic rules of the road to allow the internet to function effectively: just making sure everything worked together and behaved itself was often a challenge! We needed common standards, a robust addressing scheme, and of course the Domain Name System.

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