Irish Communications Regulator Seeking Feedback on dotIE
The Irish communications regulator, Comreg, has opened a public consultation period about dotIE (.ie), which I mentioned last week. This ...
ICANN Paris – New TLDs, ipv6, Dottel and dotme
Last week's ICANN meeting proved to be incredibly busy, both in terms of number of attendees and the number of ...
ICANN Meeting Opens In Paris
ICANN's 32nd International public meeting opened in Paris yesterday morning. There are several hot topics on the agenda and judging ...
Web 2 Ireland Logo Competition Winner Announced
We're pleased to announce that Alan O Rourke of SpoiltChild design was the winner of the recent Web 2.0 Ireland ...
Live Chat Now Available!
We've been toying with the idea of providing "live chat" on our site for quite some time. We finally found ...
Upcoming Events – Busy Times
The next couple of weeks look like they are going to be quite busy. Thursday evening sees the Firefox party ...
Want to help us design the complete ruby on rails hosting package?
Ok the title sounds a bit funny, but it's the best I could come up with. Calling all developers, ROR ...
BarCamp Belfast – 21st June
We're delighted to be involved in some little way with the next BarCamp event which is being held on Saturday, ...
IPv6 At ICANN Paris
Image via Wikipedia (ICANN meeting Lisbon, 2007) I will be heading over to the ICANN meeting in Paris next week. ...
Billing System Maintenance Tonight
We're doing some maintenance on our billing system this evening from around 8pm (Irish time) to around 9pm. During this ...
Firefox 3 Party – Dublin – Sponsored by Blacknight
Image via WikipediaI've been using Firefox as my browser of choice for so long now that I honestly can't remember ...
IPv6 Getting More Press Coverage
It's interesting to see that the media has been giving some more coverage to IPv6 over the last couple of ...
Shiny Objects Rock
Over the last year or so we've been doing a bit of advertising in DotNet Magazine in the UK (and ...
Dotie Drop Day – Get Them While They’re Fresh
At 12 today the IE Domain Registry will do it's latest domain deletion run. If you're on the lookout for ...
EU Domain Orders / Updates Unavailable This Saturday
Due to maintenance being conducted by Eurid, the organisation that manages dotEU, we will be unable to process new registrations ...
It’s Scam Time (again!)
Every time I write one of these "heads up" posts I silently hope and pray that it will be the ...
Paypal Issues
We've been encountering some issues with Paypal integration with billing.blacknight.ie, so we have temporarily disabled Paypal payments. This DOES NOT ...
DotAsia Auctions Controversy
Every time a new TLD launches the registry operators have to come up with ways of distributing "premium" names. Premium ...