https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/uk/ Recent content in Uk on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part3/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part3/ Part 3 of 3. What the SLA actually promises, what the liability cap is worth, and what the excuses sound like when it fails: the meeting about an invented crisis, the day it becomes your fault, the account that goes quiet, the advice that costs them money, what leaving really involves, and why nobody regulates the selling. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/networking/we-never-ran-out-of-addresses/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/networking/we-never-ran-out-of-addresses/ The UK has spent twenty years bolting workarounds onto IPv4 rather than turning on IPv6. I counted every UK network in the routing table to see who has actually done it, and the answer says this was never about money. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/dns/what-happened-at-nominet/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/dns/what-happened-at-nominet/ The .uk registry is owned by its members. In March 2021 they voted half the board out. This is what the estate looked like from inside, and how a registry with no regulator ended up being disciplined by the only people who could.