Over on the Nanog mailing list , IETF regular Randy Bush, known as much for his extreme language and hot temper as his technical acumen and support for the Internet in the developing world, asks voting members of Nominet to help keep "the greedy domainer slime" off the Nominet Board of Directors.
"Greedy domainer slime" is obviously supposed to tell you something important about motives, but it doesn't. The back story is much more complicated.
As it turns out, Nominet, the registry that runs .UK makes a lot of money. Underscore "a lot of money." Much more money than it needs to run the registry. And it's sitting on large piles of cash. Three domainers are apparently running for the Board on a pledge to lower the .UK registration fees and redistribute Nominet's excess funds back to the registrants who paid those sums in the first place. The sitting Nominet Board of Directors is quite partial to its pile of cash and wishes to keep it. It now pledges to redistribute some of those funds "for educational or research initiatives." The domainer community apparently has the temerity to think the registrants in .UK should get some of those excess funds back as a rebate.
Source: NameBrief
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