NEMT and its Chairman

It would appear that the Chairman of the North East Maritime Trust, Mr Alec Renwick, had been planning to rewrite its history since 14th October 2022 with a new website, nemaritimetrust.org.uk:-

LOOKUP nemaritimetrust.org.uk
Domain Repository Object Identifier: D_78192392-UK
Lifecycle
Domain Expiry 2024-10-14
Domain last updated 2024-05-14
Domain created 2022-10-14
Registrar
Registrar typically acts as an agent for the registrant to manage the domain at the registry. Registrar Name (ID): Kualo Ltd (ID: KUALO)
Registrar Tel: 0800-138-3235
Registrar Email: sales@kualo.com
Registrar URL: https://www.kualo.co.uk/
Registrar Address: 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, United Kingdom

© Nominet UK 2024. Company number: 03203859
Minerva House, Edmund Halley Road, Oxford Science Park, OX4 4DQ, United Kingdom

It appears he had a change of plan in the Spring of 2024 when he managed to seize control of nemaritimetrust.co.uk by deceit. He had managed to persuade the provider at that time, TSOHost, to swap its administrator to himself, from the one who had been maintaining the site faithfully since 2014, Mr Dawson.

In the days that followed, it appeared that TSOHost could not be persuaded to return the administration of the site to its rightful owner and because the Chairman was publishing misinformation, the only path left open to its owner to stop him doing it, was to use Nominet to switch providers and the transfer to IONOS was completed on April 17th 2024. In June, TSOHost confirmed that nemaritimetrust.co.uk did not belong to the Chairman of NEMT and in an email, addressed to Mr Dawson, they said:-

To ensure that your website remains active while you’re making these updates to your DNSrecords, we will use a proxy to redirect to your new hosting package.
Please note: this proxy will be removed after 30 days. If the server IP address hasn’t been updated within this time, your website will NOT be accessible.

The reason the provider was changed was that the Chairman, Mr A Renwick, was publishing misinformation and there was no way of it being correcting and as one could not view the proxy website it was safer to assume that any site modified by it, would contain not only the worst of Chairman’s fraudulent misrepresentations but leave him control to add to them.

Mick Dawson
9th July 2024
Updated on the 22nd July.