Nominet, the national registry for .uk domain names, today confirms that Professor Bob Garratt has been appointed to lead an independent review of its current corporate governance structure, to be benchmarked against established best practice governance standards.

25/11/2008

Nominet, the national registry for .uk domain names, today confirms that Professor Bob Garratt has been appointed to lead an independent review of its current corporate governance structure, to be benchmarked against established best practice governance standards. The review will begin immediately and is expected to be completed by March 2009.

Professor Garratt has extensive consulting experience across a wide range of organisations, from large corporates to family businesses, state-owned enterprises, professional practices, not-for-profits, central government and local communities. He is a Founder Member of the Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance; is on the Chartered Accreditation Committee, leads the Developing Strategic Thought programmes, and is an External Examiner of the Institute of Directors. In 2002, he won the Shareholder Value corporate governance essay prize sponsored by the European Business Forum and PwC / IBM.

Bob Gilbert, Chairman of Nominet comments: "We are actively committed to achieving the highest governance standards in our desire to build an organisation that serves the best interests of industry stakeholders, our members and customers. Professor Garratt is an excellent choice to lead the review – he has breadth of experience and detailed knowledge of not-for-profit and membership organisations. We look forward to his recommendations."

About Nominet

Nominet operates at the heart of e-commerce in the UK, running one of the world's largest Internet registries and managing over seven million domain names. Nominet maintains the register of .uk domain names and runs the DNS infrastructure that keeps .uk working.

It runs the technology that locates a computer in the Internet hosting the web site or email system you’re looking for when you type in a web address or send an email to an address that ends in .uk.

Nominet is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee that has members not shareholders, pays no dividends and its charges only cover its running costs. Anyone with an interest in the Internet may become a member. Nominet has over 2,800 members representing all areas of the Internet industry.

Nominet also runs the Tier 1 registry for UK ENUM, a new UK registry service that combines telephone numbers and the Domain Name System to simplify the way telephone calls over the Internet work. It removes the need for connection to the telephone network and enables more calls to be made for free.

For further information, please contact:

Nominet team at Racepoint UK
Tel: 020 8752 3205 / 2271
Email: nominetuk@racepointgroup.co.uk

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