Nigel Roberts

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Nigel Roberts FBCS

Nigel Roberts is the founder and CEO of the Island Networks group of companies. Island Networks runs the cctlds of .GG (Guernsey) and .JE (Jersey). He was one of the first elected members, representing the ccTLD Constituency, to ICANN's Domain Name Supporting Organisation ('the DNSO') which was later split into today's GNSO and CCNSO.

Nigel graduated from Essex University with a degree in Computing Science in 1980 and immediately went to work for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) which was then the second-largest computer company in the world. He worked on PDP-11 (RSX) and VAX/VMS computers on diverse projects including the ALL-IN-1 email and office automation package, and X.400 gateways.

After setting up on his own in 1982, he worked for a number of companies and organisations as an independent consultant/contractor throughout Europe, including a number of years back with DEC as well as at BT, SWIFT, and the European Environment Agency in Denmark.

He is a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered IT Professional. In the early 1990s he became one of the first UK engineers to be awarded the pan-European European Engineer (Eur.-Ing.) title.

With another ex-DEC contractor, Laurie Brown, he founded Island Networks in 1996 and set up the Channel Islands domain registry on the island of Alderney in the English Channel

In 2006 he was made a Fellow of the British Computer Society and obtained the Diploma in English Law from OU/College of Law. He went on to be awarded a Qualifying Law Degree (LL.B) with First-Class honours in June 2008.