I'll do it later when I get a bit of time. I'll also upload their two DRS particulars so you can all see the differences from before and after they realised I had call recordings.
Sorry for the delay. I've only just got a bit of free time to work on this one. I wanted to do it properly. Forgive any grammar mistakes, I don't want to throw it through AI to change anything incase it alters it in ways I don't catch.
This is a very brief timeline of events.
16/01/23, GW contacts Jim Davies for a price on some work in putting together a DRS. Discuss some options, price given. Shortly after the call I text back and cancel it, JD replies OK.
20/01/23, I call Michael Toth and discuss trying to buy it 50/50. First time MT hears of QQ in this context. Days after, becomes apparent buying it is not possible - path ends.
24/02/23 GW completes his own DRS, submits it to Nominet. No outside party involved.
06/03/23 - Some calls between GW and MT. Brief discussion on the QQ thing. MT suggests speaking to JD, MT ends call and calls JD. 45-60 minutes later, MT calls back and says that JD knows the person dealing with it at Grant Thornton. I say something along the lines of it won't do any good as they've closed it, MT Says that's what they will have told me. Hinting that it isn't closed there yet.
07/03/23 Flurry of emails between us in the morning, I give them all the contacts I have had with GT, later JD emails back and says there are some things he can do to help. Contact GT and try to buy them. Second he will try to amend if needed and if able he will alter my existing DRS.
Both want thirds, Toth will chip in with cash if JD can get GT to sell them TM's and Domains. I agree, what they are bringing in knowing the person there is not something I can do on my own.
03/04/23 Nothing happened until this point when the fee needed to be paid today. Despite being given the existing DRS on the 07/03/23, appears first time JD has read it. JD says that the existing DRS is bad, states "Do not pay the fee". I tell him the deadline is that day, I need to call them by close of business to pay over the phone. Don't pay the fee as it will advance the DRS to the expert. JD wants to swap the DRS, withdraw and resubmit with a new one.
Around 17:00, getting close to the close of business, I ignore JD's advice, call Nom and pay the fee.
Around 21:00 - JD messages and says he hasn't had time to speak to Nom, suggests paying fee

. I would have basically lost my DRS at this point if I'd listened to him. Good job I already paid it.
04/04/23 - I call Nom and ask when a decision is due, they say it's gone to the expert and decision could be back any day.
I call JD and MT, All agree this NS needs to go in asap.
Now knowing it's going to the Expert, opportunity now lost to alter the DRS - full attention turns to doing a Non Standard Submission with a lot of evidence that I had left out. These included emails from the Financial Ombudsman service, debt collection companies confusing Quick Loans with Quick Quid.
05/05/23 called FOS in the morning at 09:00, unfortunately they don't keep old records on files so we go with what we have. At one point there may have been over 600-800 complaints lodged with the FOS confusing us with QQ between 2017-2023, 2019 was probably the height. Either way, FOS say they've gone at this point.
10:00:00 JD what's apps back saying that's fine, we'll go with what we have.
06/04/23 I get an email from Nom saying that I had been successful, pending an appeal it's all done. I call JD and MT, tell them the good news and say lets crack on.
In my head, I believe JD has submitted these NSS's to Nominet like he said he had. I believe Jim submitting the extra evidence has won it as I only submitted about 10 examples of confusion in mine from February.
26/04/23 Appeal window ends, name gets transferred to Quick Loans Ltd
03/05/23 Discussions about joining in a partnership with some very experienced members of the domain community with tonnes of experience in the payday lending world. JD and MT say no.
04/05/23 Pressure starts to be put on to transfer the name to NewCo belonging to GW/MT/JD - this was never the plan. GW wanted to speak to accountant and get advice on best way to do it. I say nothing's happening until after my accountant is back on Tuesday.
05/05/23 Even though I tell them that it's going nowhere. JD is worried that I may sell it to the third party they'd turned down few days earlier. JD starts a DRS against me at Nominet - doesn't tell me. In don't find out about this for weeks.
09/05/23 My accountant gets back to me, spots some odd things in what has gone on and gives me some questions to ask. I ask JD if he ever did know anyone at GT, and I note that the Nom expert never made any mention of the NSS in his summary, can he just confirm that he did it.
JD replied and this is when I knew I was dealing with someone that was not of an honest nature.
Said that the DRS was Michael's idea all along.
JD said that he suggested in the 16th of Jan 23 call that confusion between QuickLoans.co.uk and QuickQuid was his idea - errrrrhhhnm, yes because when I called on the 16th of January, my initial idea was writing to Nominet and suggesting confusion between hgv.co.uk and QuickQuid.co.uk. I'd so fecking glad he saved the day on that. By the way, at the 40s mark of the call JD has full access to, it clearly details me telling him what the basis for a complaint is, he's just making it up again.
Then he blamed me for completing the DRS early on Feb 24, I didn't tell him I was going to do it. Again makes no bloody sense, the last day before QQ entered the 5 day drop cycle was maybe the 26th of Feb - 2 days later - if his version was true, it would have dropped before he even got round to it - it's crazy.
Then he blames me for not giving him the login details so he could submitted these Non Standard Submissions - JD has been a solicitor for years, he knows full well you don't need log in details to submit a NSS. He's blatantly not telling the truth, thinking people are idiots. Nominet have since confirmed in writing that it is submitted by email and not through a portal. As JD was going to do a few posts ago when he made up the fact that I gave him consent.
He said I didn't send him the evidence on the 5th of April - More BS. His whatsapp says otherwise, emails say otherwise.
Then he blames it on the expert doing it early so he get can off for easter.
So basically, he didn't know anyone at GT, never altered the DRS or added a Non Standard Submission but both of them still want their thirds for doing nothing and misrepresenting themselves. JD's only real grasp at anything is that he thinks because he had that call with me on the 16th of Jan, he deserves his third. JD wasn't the only person I phoned for a price that week - so I guess I must owe them all a third.
What they didn't know when the filed their DRS against me is that I had all the calls recorded and could disprove their dishonesty. If I hadn't, it would have been their two words against mine. JD says that some of the chronology and things are incorrect, but nothing hinges on them. Doesn't hinge on them because I caught them both and put the record straight.
I could go on and on and on about these two and the evidence I have on them. They both blame each other and play dumb that the other one said it, and nothing to do with them individually. Even in this thread, JD tries to play dumb with whatever Michael may or not have said - he has the call, I gave it to him - he knows full well what was said.
I do not believe there is a shred of merit in your claim that anything that may or may not have been said between you and Michael about Grant Thornton had any impact on your thinking going into our deal.
JD sending emails to try and get a payout from Nominet for representing my Mrs and me on NoCreditCheckLoans.co.uk - "for his clients" then when asked by the SRA if I was ever his client, he says no - SRA say all is good, jog on. Then isn't that a whole other issue of telling Nom untruths to try and get money out of them? But anyway, he revealed my confidential to the IPO, so if you are ever a client of his (I and my mrs were clients, his words), be careful as he is not confidential.
But maybe it's just me with issues. That wouldn't explain why Nominet's independent Non Exec Direct couldn't pass him through screening. It wouldn't explain why Setfords Law couldn't onboard him, it wouldn't explain why he isn't allowed at Nominet in person events anymore.
If JD waives his defamation rights, I'll post what the top top Barristers wrote about both their conducts in this matter. I doubt he will. This wouldn't be protected by Honest Opinion, so I can't post it myself.
I'm going to hold off posting JD and MT's DRS complaints to Nominet. They mention other people and I don't want this to expand this disagreement outwards to other people on here who aren't aware they are included. JD and MT are welcome to.
My only regret is that I didn't notice until late last year that they were both individually involved in the DRS against me that locked the name for 4-5 months and cost me a lot of money. If I had noticed I would have sued them individually (their company has no assets). Once I found out, I held off because the SRA stuff was ongoing. Now that's over, maybe it's time to look at that again.
I have blogged countless times about all this, posted witness statements in 4-5 rounds of evidence. If I ever said one thing that I have contradicted in 3 years, feel free to flag it up.
Anyway - Avoid.com