By Kieron JH
Founder, The Reasonable Adjustment
Most people assume control sits with whoever has the job title and the budget.
For me, a bit of that shifted when I spent £5 on a domain name.
I registered the .co.uk version of a name linked to an organisation I had dealt with. It was available. They had never registered it. I pointed it to my own site.
Part of the disagreement with them came from their “standardised” CV. In the process, they removed core parts of my actual work, including things like domain setup, email marketing, and digital strategy. That is real experience, not padding. Taking it out changed how my skills were presented and fed into a wider pattern I recognised from elsewhere: other people deciding what is acceptable to say about you, and what gets quietly trimmed away.
So I did something simple and legal.
I bought an unregistered domain and set up a clear redirect. No copied branding. No fake “official” page. No attempt to pass as them. The page states who owns it, why it exists, and then links to my own writing about what happened.
That is all it does. If someone types that .co.uk, they see my material, labelled as mine. They are not told it is the organisation. They are not misled about who is speaking.
You can call it digital activism if you like. For me, it is just a way of making sure I am not pushed into silence by an organisation with more resources and a louder voice by default.
If, one day, they want to talk about tidying up the domain side of things, that can be done in a normal, straightforward way. There is no ransom, no conditions, no drama.
Until then, that £5 domain is doing exactly what I bought it for: pointing people to a version of events that would otherwise be very easy to ignore.
Kieron JH
The Reasonable Adjustment