Nominet re-elect Board Members

Gordon Dick and Fay Howard were re-elected to serve on the Board of Nominet UK for a period of two years as non executive members. However only 263 members voted, representing less than 10% of the electorate. Some members complained about missing voting papers and the organisation has promised to investigate an online voting system. It was a close fought contest with Peter Gradwell getting the largest numbers of votes of any candidate in the first round but eventually coming in third after the votes were reallocated. Andrew Bennett of acorndomains.co.uk, obtained a respectable vote but went out in the third phase of voting after Lord Erroll . Peter Gradwells election platform was mainly to appeal to the larger tag holders such as Pipex and thinks that the future for Nominet is to look "beyond domain names" and expand its pervue to running the large databases required by "communications identifiers" of the next decade on a neutral non profit making basis. The voting results can be found here: http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/9300_results_table.pdf Earlier Nominet had managed to miscalculate the voting rights of Nominet members. Weycrests voting allocation was originally calculated at 263 but this was later amended to 967.