CEO and Half the Board of UK Domain Registrar Nominet Voted Out By Members (techradar.com) 20
Grantbridge writes: Nominet is the UK Domain registrar and has been increasing prices for years. This resulted in the various UK domain hosting companies setting up a campaign to make them obey their public service mission. This has resulted in an emergency meeting and the voting out of the CEO and half the board members. "In an extraordinary turn of events, half of Nominet's board has been voted out with immediate effect; the culmination of a long-drawn public campaign calling for the board's overhaul," reports TechRadar. "Board members of the Internet infrastructure firm Nominet, which regulates UK domain names, had been under fire for several months now for their decisions to take the company away from its not-for-profit mission."
"I find it sad that we've got to this point," said board chairman Mark Wood at the start of the extraordinary general meeting (EGM) as reported by The Register. "In the past, we clearly haven't listened well enough to our members. We know that many things we need to do better," said Wood, who was one of the members voted out, along with Nominet CEO Russell Haworth.
"I find it sad that we've got to this point," said board chairman Mark Wood at the start of the extraordinary general meeting (EGM) as reported by The Register. "In the past, we clearly haven't listened well enough to our members. We know that many things we need to do better," said Wood, who was one of the members voted out, along with Nominet CEO Russell Haworth.
It's unclear what happens next, but as it stands, non-executive director Rob Binns has been asked to serve as acting chair.
First dupe! (Score:2, Insightful)
In grand Slashdot tradition, I call first dupe.
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It's not a dupe, they just voted out the new replacement CEO and the remaining half of the board.
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Come on, man... (Score:2)
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This is still on the FIRST PAGE... how can you double-post so badly? https://news.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
Practice
The church of the CEO... (Score:2)
Why? (Score:2)
Did they post dupes and never learn?
Re: Why? (Score:2)
I only posted it once, by it seems editors changed the title! This might be why they didn't notice the dupe?
Is a 9 story gap a new dupe record? (Score:2)
Probably not. I bet Slashdot has probably had at least one back-to-back dupe...
Would like to tag it as dupe but tagging is broken (Score:2)
Would like to tag it as dupe but tagging is broken.
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Is it broken, or did they turn it off so that we cannot accurately tag stories dupe and/or slashvertisement?
Wow, that sounds like some meeting. (Score:2)
...at the start of the extraordinary general meeting (EGM)
I wonder what kind of snacks they had.
That's real hostile takeover (Score:1)
Fire first half and then fire second half on same day.
Re: That's real hostile takeover (Score:3)
Next steps... (Score:5, Insightful)
New board, and create lawsuits against any former members negligent in their fiduciary duty by
spending organization resources not supporting the organization but for board members' private personal edification in campaigning against members' following org. procedures and voting them out:
both Wood and Haworth had not only attacked Blackler and the campaign, but also spent Nominet resources to urge members to vote against the resolution to fire them, as sought by the campaign.
The full board... (Score:3)
Apparently, the full board has been voted out, since the other half was ditched yesterday:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]