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Nominet has been hell-bent on trying to get into lucrative side areas. They seem keen to heavily position themselves in anything they feel they can trade in the
by g_p 6y ago
Nominet has been hell-bent on trying to get into lucrative side areas. They seem keen to heavily position themselves in anything they feel they can trade in their reputation as the UK's NIC. Anything involving a database or cyber-security, they're all over, trying to use their NIC status as a USP.
When it started to get to things like autonomous vehicles, that's when it starts to get a bit murky and strange. Nominet surely ought to stick to what it does - it's a non-profit, and could focus its resources into its core goal, rather than constantly trying to turn a profit in other sectors.
- mjw1007 6y agoRight. Though I think a certain amount of the current anger is coming from the fact that their expeditions into side areas have been the opposite of lucrative in practice. To the extent that the board's suggestion that adopting the EGM's resolutions « would have a critical destabilising impact, leaving the company leaderless » might look more like a positive than a negative to some members.
- g_p 6y agoAgreed, consider lucrative in air-quotes. The ineptitude of the current leadership has meant they've been less than lucrative! Destabilising the current fiasco would certainly be an improvement in my view.