Tuesday, 29 April 2008

MySpace Loses myspace.co.uk in DRS Appeal

A success for TWS barring a High Court Appeal and a success it would seem for the lawyer Jim Davies who is a candidate Board Elections.

MySpace stripped of myspace.co.uk domain victory

Secondly, the panel considered the crucial (and more broadly relevant) question of how much control TWS had over what appeared on the parking site. It accepted that TWS had not interfered with the content of myspace.co.uk, including when ads relating to social networking began to appear. Rather, they had been generated and updated by Sedo's software, so it was natural that MySpace's rapid rise be reflected.

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Saturday, 26 April 2008

Namesco Hosting Review and Comparison

Save money on Namesco Hosting packages with lower cost and greener alternatives for hosting Joomla, Wordpress, Forum and OSCommerce sites.
clipped from www.weycrest.co.uk
Rather than spend hours comparing UK Web Hosts Weycrest are doing it for you! Namesco think they have a great starter package, but not when you compare their features and prices with the Weycrest Personal Plan. This comparison will also apply to all of Namesco's other brands which include Simply.Com, Cheapnames.co.uk, CheapDomainNames.co.uk, Net2.co.uk, 123domainnames.co.uk, XSessions.com, NDO.com and Names123.com

Details accurate as at 23 April 2008. We have also given the Namesco the benefit by including their "half price" special offer for the first year, so Namesco prices are only correct for the first year. The following year they would double in price.

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Cheap Green UK Web Hosting

UK Web Hosting Provider offer Carbon Offset and Environmentally Friendly Web Hosting

Weycrest have relocated their business operation in an eco friendly business centre in East London, next to the River Thames, opposite the "famous" O2 Arena. The buildings are constructed entirely from recycled shipping containers! This tends to play havoc with local wireless networks due to the "Faraday Cage" effect, but this is to some extent appropriate as Michael Faraday conducted his original lighting experiments in conjunction with Trinity House from adjacent Lighthouse on the site (the only lighthouse on the River Thames).


Some time ago we realised our web servers may be contributing to CO2 emissions so decided to take some time helping to reduce the effects of global warming by cutting down on our 'carbon footprint'.

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Friday, 18 April 2008

Nominet announce Non-executive director election

Nominet, the UK Domain Registry have announced that voting papers for our non-executive
director election have been posted or emailed to members.

There are six candidates standing and there statements and CVs are contained in an election booklet along with details explaining to Nominet members how to vote. The candidates include Adam Beaumont of AQL.com and Dickie Armour who has stood before. Gordon Dick is already a non executive Director and is retiring by rotation and restanding.

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Monday, 14 April 2008

Nominet Appeals to Members to Vote

Forthcoming AGM and Nominet wishes to appoint more Directors. Interesting stats from AGM FAQ
clipped from www.nominet.org.uk
Nominet has changed a lot in the 12 years since it was formed. We used to have 100 members, now we have nearly 3,000. In 1996 there were 26,000 domain names on the .uk register, now there are nearly 7,000,000. Our turnover has grown to over £15m. We have a unique, and important function on which many UK citizens and businesses depend: in 2006, the value of sales over the Internet in 2006 was £130.4 bn, and over 2/3 of companies are using the internet to assist their business (source: ONS, 2007 quoted in the Byron review).
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