Nominet Board elections 2025: Kieren McCarthy v Rob Golding

https://nominet.uk/news/2026-non-executive-director-election/

This year, two candidates were nominated by members. One completed the process, but after initial dialogue with the second candidate we were unable to reach them to complete the process.
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Is this related to the shenanigans last year or in 2023, or is it a new storyline in the psychodrama that is Nominet governance?
(I'm not a member and don't have access to the hub.)
 
I don’t believe it’s related at all. This year, the incumbent, Steve Wright, stood for re-election and is the only candidate, so I believe he will be elected unopposed. There is only one seat up for election this year.

It has not been announced who the other potential candidate was who decided not to proceed further with the process, but I don’t believe it was Rob Golding. Kieren McCarthy was re-elected last year.

The last comparable occasion was in 2011, when two seats were up for election and only two candidates stood, meaning both were elected unopposed: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem...on-called-off-due-to-lack-of-interest/1336922
 
invincible said:
I don’t believe it’s related at all. This year, the incumbent, Steve Wright, stood for re-election and is the only candidate, so I believe he will be elected unopposed. There is only one seat up for election this year.

It has not been announced who the other potential candidate was who decided not to proceed further with the process, but I don’t believe it was Rob Golding. Kieren McCarthy was re-elected last year.

The last comparable occasion was in 2011, when two seats were up for election and only two candidates stood, meaning both were elected unopposed: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem...on-called-off-due-to-lack-of-interest/1336922
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I would like to thank myself for this reply.

If it wasn't @astutiumRob, might it have been @Jim Davies?
 
astutiumRob said:
Not in any of the ways discussed.

People losing their coins / money / pensions / etc happens every day through much simpler phishing and social engineering scams

Even then the sums in total are miniscule in comparison with international bank money laundering and dodgy gov't contracts

It's almost as if the sysyems are designed to funnel into the pockets of criminals ....
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Don't even know why I'm replying to this old post, but it is possible for crypto to be stolen without phishing / social engineering or even any interaction with the wallet owner at all.

One thing people overlook when using multi-crypto wallets is that a single private key can generate addresses for multiple addresses across various networks all controlled by that single private key.
The issue is that all it takes is for a nonce value to be repeated in any 2 transactions created by any address generated from that single private key regardless of whether its BTC, ETH or any other and then the private key is recoverable and then all assets are now able to be stolen.
 
ILoveDotUK said:
'all it takes is for a nonce'
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You are right, mate. That's all it takes to ruin it for everyone. I see Meskonis has announced that the jolly boys' (not girls') outing will be at the 'Cutty Sark' this year on the 9th of December.
 
Ree said:
You are right, mate. That's all it takes to ruin it for everyone. I see Meskonis has announced that the jolly boys' (not girls') outing will be at the 'Cutty Sark' this year on the 9th of December.
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I read Jolly Boy's outing and my head went straight to Margate & Only Fools & Horses 😂
 
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