WordCamp Belfast Celebrates 15 Years of WordPress! [Audio]
WordCamp Belfast is on next weekend and Blacknight is a sponsor – so I’ve Skyped with three of the organisers to find out what’s in store. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 20:22; 12MB; MP3. Brendan Mulvaney is an IT consultant and tech blogger. He got involved at […]
Public WHOIS in a GDPR World
Come May 25th the General Data Protection Regulation aka GDPR will be in force and many companies will have made significant changes to how they handle personal information in order to comply with the law. I recently shared a “bird’s eye view” of our GDPR preparation and we’ve already touched on how .IE and .UK […]
Canada Bound for ICANN GDD Summit and RightsCon
I’ll be attending events in Canada next week. The first part of the week will be devoted to ICANN related matters at the GDD Summit in Vancouver. While the schedule for the event has a fairly broad range of topics I suspect a lot of the discussions will be around GDPR and how we’re all […]
The Obligatory GDPR Update
On May 25th 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into full force. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last few months you’ll both know about it and hopefully will be prepared for it. The bottom line with GDPR is that it gives people more control over their privacy and […]
The Secure Domain For Apps is Here!
Over the past couple of years hundreds of new domain name extensions have been made available to businesses and individuals around the globe. Choice is a good thing, so we’ve been happy to offer most of those domain names to our clients around the world. However there are a few domain name extensions that have […]
May Bank Holiday Opening Hours 2018
It’s May the Fourth today – so we shout out to Star Wars fans! This year, it coincides with the May Bank Holiday Weekend in Ireland. Monday 7 May is a public holiday in Ireland. Support will be available by email and live chat from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Monday. Telephone service will be provided for […]
Blacknight sponsors Carlow Arts Festival 2018! [Video]
At Blacknight we’re all about taking care of business, but everybody needs a break. That’s why we sponsor events that are designed to feed the soul, like IndieCork, and the arts festival in our home town! Carlow Arts Festival (formerly Éigse) is celebrating its 39th year this year, and we’re delighted to be a sponsor. […]
Got a Co.uk Domain? Nominet Plans Changes to Whois and Policies for GDPR
The co.uk domain name registry Nominet recently held a public consultation on how they were planning on dealing with GDPR. That consultation closed a couple of weeks ago and they’ve since made public how they intend on changing their policies and processes to deal with GDPR. At the moment when you register a *.uk domain […]
Upcoming Changes to IE Domain Whois and Related Policies for GDPR
As you probably know by now the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enters into force on May 25th. In light of this a lot of companies have been making changes with how they collect, process, store and use personal information. While many of the changes are “behind the scenes”, others will have an impact at […]
We’re at Dublin Tech Summit with EU Domain Names for €1.99*!
Dublin Tech Summit gets underway today at the Convention Centre Dublin, and Blacknight is there with EURid, the EU domain registry. Come and say hello! We’re at stand D6, to the right of the hall as you enter, and near the stage. To celebrate, we’ve cut the price of .EU domains! Normally €6.95, you can […]
Talking Cybercrime at Baltic Domain Days Riga
This week I’ll be heading over to Riga in Latvia to attend and speak at the first edition of the Baltic Domain Days. The event, which is being held over two days, will cover a fairly broad range of topics including domain takedowns, copyright issues, privacy and cybersecurity. I’ll be speaking on a panel entitled […]
Game Over for Public Whois? Article 29 Gives ICANN the Advice it Asked for
We’ve talked about the conflicts between our ICANN contract and privacy law in the past. Not once, not twice, but multiple times. We refused to sign the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with ICANN until we’d received a data retention waiver. That decision probably cost us money, but if we have to choose between operating […]