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December 1817:10 PM	Registrar satisfaction survey results We conducted our second registrar satisfaction survey in September 2006 and the results of this are now available.
December 1811:11 AM	New Registrar Agreement and Good Practice Terms Following the Raising Industry Standards consultation, a new Registrar Agreement and set of Good Practice Terms will come into effect on 1 March 2007.
December 1413:24 PM	Statement regarding allegations about the EGM We strongly refute allegations made about the vote at our recent EGM.
November 2213:37 PM	November PAB meeting report The report from the November meeting of Nominet's Policy Advisory Board is now available to read.
November 2213:30 PM	Extraordinary General Meeting results At our Extraordinary General Meeting today our members voted to expand our scope, enabling us to bid to run other Internet registry services, such as UK ENUM.
November 1711:28 AM	Service interruption 22 November 2006 On Wednesday 22 November 2006 there will be a brief service interruption of 15 minutes at 7:45am to both the WHOIS/WHOIS2 and Domain Availab/ility Checker services.
November 1609:38 AM	Updating the .uk Dispute Resolution Service We are updating Nominet's Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) to keep the service quick, simple, fair and approachable for all who use it and make sure that it keeps abreast of changes in the external environment.
November 212:37 PM	November PAB meeting agenda and papers The Policy Advisory Board will be meeting on Wednesday 8 November and it welcomes stakeholder comments on the issues being discussed at this meeting.
October 2716:52 PM	IGF Participation Workshop Nominet is on the panel for a workshop on participation in organisations responsible for management, administration and development of various aspects of the Internet.
October 2712:02 PM	Extraordinary General Meeting We are pleased to announce that we have sent formal notice by post to members that we will be holding an Extraordinary General Meeting at the Oxford Belfry Hotel on 22 November 2006.
October 2612:51 PM	Appointment of assessors for UK ENUM bids UKEC is intending to appoint a panel of independent assessors to examine the bids for UK ENUM and make recommendations.
October 2409:43 AM	.uk.name latest ICANN has now referred the proposal by Global Name Registry to introduce two-character strings within .name at the second level for further consideration by the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel (RSTEP).
October 1613:48 PM	Summary of scope consultation and electronic communications We are pleased to present a summary of the responses to the recent consultation on the scope of Nominet and a revised draft of the scope that we intend to propose be adopted by our membership.
October 509:18 AM	Possible introduction of .uk.name We are seeking your feedback on the possible introduction of .uk.name and other two-character SLDs for .name.
September 2915:45 PM	2006 Board election result We are pleased to announce the results of the 2006 Board elections.
September 2911:51 AM	The road to Athens On 9 October 2006 we hosted "The road to Athens", a UK Internet governance stakeholder event at the RICS Venues Centre in London, which was instigated, organised and sponsored by Nominet.
September 2815:41 PM	2006 Board election update The results of the 2006 Board election which took place at this week's AGM will be posted in due course here on the Nominet web site.
September 1815:53 PM	2006 Board election The election letter and election statements for the 2006 Board election were posted to members on 15 September together with personalised voting papers.
September 1815:44 PM	Printing error on confirmation of registration letters A large number of confirmation of registration letters contain a printing error relating to the registration date of the domain name. You will soon receive a letter explaining the error and confirming the actual registration date of your domain name.
September 1212:06 PM	Lower prices for tag changes and registrant transfers Following a recent review of our cost recovery charges we are delighted to be able to confirm that from 1 October 2006 our charges for registrant transfers and registration agent changes will be lower.
September 612:24 PM	September PAB meeting agenda and papers The Policy Advisory Board will be meeting on Wednesday 13 September 2006 and it welcomes stakeholder comments on the issues being discussed at this meeting.
September 414:06 PM	Annual General Meeting 2006 - Further Information Annual General Meeting 2006 - Further Information
August 3110:41 AM	Changes to voting rights Following the recent consultation on members' voting rights the Board of Nominet has changed the mechanism for calculating members' voting rights.
August 1413:57 PM	Registrar Survey We are conducting our third registrar survey to measure levels of satisfaction with our support services.
August 316:12 PM	Registrant Survey We are conducting a registrant satisfaction survey to measure levels of satisfaction with our support services.
July 2611:19 AM	July PAB meeting report The report from the July meeting of Nominet's Policy Advisory Board is now available to read.
July 2017:17 PM	Annual General Meeting 2006 Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on 27th September 2006 at the Hilton London Heathrow Airport.
July 1916:33 PM	Scope consultation meetings We are pleased to invite members to attend an evening reception to discuss the current consultation on the scope of Nominet.
July 414:28 PM	Internet scammer announces bankruptcy Domainwatch.org today posted a letter from Australian domain name scammer, Bradley Norrish, announcing his declaration of bankruptcy.
July 310:44 AM	Closer co-operation between Nominet and ICANN We are pleased to announce that today we have taken two major steps towards closer co-operation with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
June 2815:41 PM	Nominet's statement on enhanced cooperation Following the recent World Summit on the Information Society Mr Nitin Desai was appointed by the UN Secretary General to begin consultations on the process for enhanced cooperation. Nominet has sent Mr Desai its contribution to that consultation.
June 2811:14 AM	July PAB meeting agenda and papers The Policy Advisory Board will be meeting on Wednesday 12 July 2006 and it welcomes stakeholder comments on the issues being discussed at this meeting.
June 1414:50 PM	PRSS and Online Service We are pleased to announce that the PRSS, which has been running in beta since last year, will go into full production today, 14 June 2006.
June 216:12 PM	Consultation on the scope of Nominet launched We are launching a consultation on the scope of Nominet.
June 214:43 PM	Changes to the rules for .uk domain names following consultation The Rules of Registration and Use of Domain Names will be changed on 2 July 2006 following the recent consultation.
May 2416:58 PM	.uk registrations hit 5 million mark Nominet is celebrating reaching the five million mark for .uk domain name registrations.
May 2409:21 AM	May PAB meeting report The report from the May meeting of Nominet's Policy Advisory Board is now available to read.
May 2210:24 AM	Emily Taylor selected for International Internet Governance Advisory Board Emily Taylor, Nominet's Director of Legal and Policy at Nominet has been appointed by the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Anan, to serve on the Advisory Group for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
May 417:02 PM	Consultation on members' voting rights We a running a consultation on members' voting rights from 04 May to 05 June 2006.
May 413:36 PM	Standards consultation deadline extended The deadline for responses has been extended to 31 May 2006.
April 2616:38 PM	May PAB meeting agenda and papers The Policy Advisory Board will be meeting on Wednesday 10 May 2006 and it welcomes stakeholder comments on the issues being discussed at this meeting.
April 2615:21 PM	PAB election results We are pleased to announce that five candidates have been elected to our Policy Advisory Board.
April 2016:32 PM	Rules consultation We are launching a consultation on changes to the Rules of Registration and Use of Domain Names. The rules set out the basis on which applicants can register .uk domain names.
March 710:26 AM	Member and tag holder satisfaction survey The results from our recent member and tag holder satisfaction survey are available on our web site.
February 2216:21 PM	March PAB meeting agenda and papers
February 2211:48 AM	Web site outage February 22 2006 Our website was unavailable between 1:28am and 8:02am this morning.
February 1309:59 AM	We are calling an Extraordinary General Meeting Following the Board's strategic and governance review of Nominet, we are proposing a number of changes to our corporate goverance and company statutes.
February 211:13 AM	Call for nominations - PAB election 2006 Your chance to stand as a member of our Policy Advisory Board
January 3115:36 PM	Raising Industry Standards consultation deadline extended The 'Raising Industry Standards' consultation deadline has been extended to 31 May 2006.
January 3110:46 AM	Latest Registrant Survey results We now have the results from the Registrant Survey that was carried out in November 2005.
January 2514:32 PM	January PAB meeting report The report from the January meeting of Nominet's Policy Advisory Board is now available to read.
January 1012:09 PM	Nominet Legal Department wins Legal Week Award Nominet's DRS helps department win Technology, Media & Telecoms Team Award
January 1012:02 PM	Nominet awarded AUD $1.3 million copyright damages Australian court case closes on domain name scammers