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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tech Talk is a collaboration between Blacknight and KCLR 96FM radio. Every two weeks we join Ken McGuire on KCLR Drive for a chat about technology news. You can hear it live on the air, and it’s also a podcast. We include it here also in the Blacknight Podcast feed. Click on the player below to […]