The reason I feel this is that friends are telling me that some strange things are happening in the US, and I'm seeing some evidence of what they are ...

 Over the last 12-18 months, the number of top-quality domain names (.co.uk and .uk) coming up for sale on the open market has decreased substant...

Seems that good old fashioned war has broken out between domain catchers, and thankfully I'm not involved in this one.

I don't really want to touch too much on what is going on, but I do want to comment on why it is going on and that is probably because of the lack of oversight from Nominet. As far as I know, they have made no public statements on the issue. 

How did Nominet take a broken drop system and make it worse? Identifying multi-taggers as a problem, then giving them a helping hand takes some doing. Currently, Nominet has a broken drop system; some things that are broken can be fixed; others just can't. The tech holes can be fixed, the ability to have multiple tags can't. I've been through this ...

Nominet has released an interim statement in which they confirm that they won't be pursuing an auction model for their premium expired domain names.  "Firstly, we will not pursue an auction model. While a proportion of responses from a wide range of sectors including the drop–catching market supported this approach, the prevailing view wa...

When I first published the DAC flaw a few weeks ago, I wasn't sure if others were still using it or not. I have never used it myself. Since then I have heard that Nominet are now actively monitoring the DAC and will take action against anyone they find usingthe flaw, or having used it. Apparently it was confirmed yesterday by Nominet's Head of Lega...

I wouldn't want to get too deep into speculating and conspiracy theories but since I had posted details about the flaw, I started to think a little about how I would have set it up if I wanted to take advantage of it. Maybe this is what has been going on with a particular person. Now, this is speculation; there is no evidence for it that I kno...

On Saturday, I received an anonymous email with details of a new catching flaw at Nominet. They asked that I would publish it on my blog. I have done a bit of digging, and it all seems viable. I don’t know who sent it, they have stated their motivations for posting it and I have no reasons to doubt them. I have never used it and no intentions of do...

A fortnight ago Nominet announced a new consultation on proposals to change the way .uk domain names drop. The mention of auctions seems to have caused concern for many. Declaration of interests I am a drop catcher, over the years I have made good returns catching domain names. At the same time, I am also an end-user, buying domain names for develo...

If I had any idea how to short sell, I'd be short-selling the life out of Twitter stock right about now. Banning Katie Hopkin's has just broken the camels back and now a Twexit is trending. They must have lost over 500,000 real followers in the last 24 hours and more are following. It just goes to show that you don't need legislation to end commerc...