Nominet, the national registry for .uk domain names, has appointed Simon McCalla as Director of IT.

30/09/2009

Nominet, the national registry for .uk domain names, has appointed Simon McCalla as Director of IT. Simon's remit is to lead the team developing and managing the technology behind one of the world's largest Internet registries, .uk. He is also responsible for ensuring Nominet's technical leadership within the UK and international Internet communities.

Simon joins Nominet with over 15 years' experience in information technology within global enterprises including The White Company, Warner Bros Studio Entertainment Group and Cap Gemini. In 2006, McCalla was appointed as director of application services at Warner Bros, where he was responsible for the development and management of their global Category Management and Vendor Managed Inventory systems.

On his Nominet role, Simon McCalla comments: "Nominet's investment in the DNS infrastructure, innovative technology such as ENUM¹, and its employees, is outstanding. It is exciting to become part of an organisation that has such a respectable reputation within the technology sector and contributes so much to the wider Internet community."

Lesley Cowley, CEO of Nominet concludes: "We are pleased to welcome Simon into the team at Nominet. He has a wealth of experience in the IT sector and we are looking forward to working with him to ensure our technical service continues to be of the highest standard. This appointment further strengthens our commitment to shaping the development of the Internet through Internet community projects such as OpenDNSSEC²  and Windows Unbound³ ."

1 - 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.

2 - OpenDNSSEC: The OpenDNSSEC project announces the development of Open Source software that manages the security of domain names on the Internet. The project intends to drive adoption of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to further enhance Internet security.

3 - Unbound: Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Notes To Editors

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.  ENUM lets callers know that you can receive VoIP calls – it allows more VoIP calls to be connected directly over the Internet, for no charge, rather than via the traditional PSTN network.

For further information, please contact:
Gemma Griffiths or Elissa Fry at Racepoint UK
Tel: 020 8752 3205 / 2272
Email: nominetuk@racepointgroup.co.uk

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