Ethics Restoring Nominet to a public benefit organisation For many years, we here at Freethought have been voicing our concern about the way in which the UK registry operator Nominet has been run, which is why we are proud to lend our support to the Public Benefit campaign.
News Coronavirus Over the coming weeks and months coronavirus is going to have an increasing impact on everyone's day-to-day lives. We wanted to take a moment to just clarify how we forsee Freethought continuing to provide what are increasingly critical online services to our customers.
Domains Automatic registration of second level UK domains The decision to make second level domains available was somewhat controversial at the time and continues to be today; many Nominet members (including ourselves) voiced their strong concerns. Some registrars have decided to register these second level UK domains automatically.
News Freethought joins LINX We are thrilled to announce that as of 5th November 2015, Freethought has connected to the London Internet eXchange (LINX).
Domains Nominet’s unjustified 50% price hike on UK domains We are disappointed to have to announce that from the 1st of March 2016 the price for .uk, .co.uk, .org.uk, .ltd.uk, .plc.uk, .me.uk and .net.uk domain names will be increasing.
Blogging The Wordpress update crisis Wordpress is a common target for hackers looking for web sites to exploit and use for nefarious purposes such as distributing malware to visitors, sending spam emails or launching DDoS attacks.
Privacy Investigatory Powers Bill; build a haystack and the needles will come. The draft Investigatory Powers Bill unveiled by the UK government earlier this month is, in the words of the UN, “worse than scary”.
Privacy Investigatory Powers Bill, an argument in semantics and hidden agendas. The UK government has unveiled it’s new Investigatory Powers Bill, another attempt at the Communications Data Bill (nicknamed the “Snoopers Charter”) which was blocked in the previous parliament
