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Press Release: Irish registrar says New RAA is a step in the right direction

Press Release: Irish registrar says New RAA is a step in the right direction

By Michele Neylon|2013-04-23T17:15:20+01:00April 23rd, 2013|Categories: News, Policy, Press Releases|Tags: Domain name registrar, icann, RAA, whois|

Following up on my blog post from earlier we just sent this out to the media: Blacknight Announce New ICANN ...

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New Domain Registration Agreement Recognises Local Law and Privacy

New Domain Registration Agreement Recognises Local Law and Privacy

By Michele Neylon|2013-04-23T17:39:00+01:00April 23rd, 2013|Categories: Domains, ICANN, Policy|Tags: Beijing, blacknight, Contract, Domain name, Domain name registrar, Generic top-level domain, icann, Registrar Accreditation Agreement, whois|

I've spoken about the RAA (Registrar Accreditation Agreement) in the past. I haven't always been too positive about the planned ...

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The Domains In Spain Fall Mainly On ..

The Domains In Spain Fall Mainly On ..

By Michele Neylon|2013-04-22T11:22:25+01:00April 22nd, 2013|Categories: Domains, Events, New TLDs|Tags: blacknight, Country code top-level domain, Domain name, Generic top-level domain, icann, spain, Top-level domain, Valencia|

Next week I'll be heading off to Valencia in Spain for Domaining Spain 2013. I'll be speaking on a panel ...

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RIPE Coming To Dublin And We’re Sponsoring AND Speaking

RIPE Coming To Dublin And We’re Sponsoring AND Speaking

By Michele Neylon|2013-04-16T11:35:21+01:00April 16th, 2013|Categories: Events|Tags: blacknight, Carlow, Fake Pharma, HEAnet, Internet service provider, ireland, LegitScript, Michele Neylon|

Next month RIPE 66 will be held in Dublin. And not only will we be attending, but we're also sponsoring ...

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Defending Against A Massive WordPress Brute Force Attack

Defending Against A Massive WordPress Brute Force Attack

By Alan O'Reilly|2013-04-15T16:04:37+01:00April 15th, 2013|Categories: Hosting, Network, Security, Service Issue, WordPress|Tags: Botnet, Brute-force attack, IP Address, ireland, Joomla, wordpress|

Over the last few days there has been quite a bit of media attention on a very large attack against ...

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Reduced staff Friday the 12th of April 2013

Reduced staff Friday the 12th of April 2013

By James Larkin|2013-04-10T15:58:07+01:00April 10th, 2013|Categories: General|

As a mark of respect to Mr Thomas Kelly (beloved father of Paul Kelly (Blacknight founder and CTO), the Blacknight ...

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We’re Off To ICANN 46 Beijing

We’re Off To ICANN 46 Beijing

By Michele Neylon|2013-04-04T15:17:08+01:00April 3rd, 2013|Categories: Events, ICANN, New TLDs|Tags: Beijing, blacknight, china, Generic top-level domain, Great Wall of China, icann, London, los angeles, Top-level domain|

Starting this weekend is the 46th ICANN public meeting. We'll be attending, as usual, and I'll be doing a followup ...

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Don’t Ignore The Internet’s Nuts and Bolts

Don’t Ignore The Internet’s Nuts and Bolts

By Michele Neylon|2013-04-03T11:00:29+01:00April 3rd, 2013|Categories: Policy, Press Releases|Tags: blacknight, Carlow, Christian Dawson, DDOS, Denial-of-service attack, Domain Name System, freedom of speech, icann, Intellectual property, Internet Infrastructure Coalition, ireland, Michele Neylon, The Spamhaus Project|

The internet as we know it is under constant attack. I don't mean by DDOS or other "charming" things, though ...

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Is English Your Second Language?

Is English Your Second Language?

By Michele Neylon|2013-04-02T15:37:37+01:00April 2nd, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: Carlow, Catalan language, English as a Second Language, English language, language, Spanish language|

While we might be a 100% Irish owned company (and proud of it!) we have clients in over 120 countries ...

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Congratulations To CoInternet (.co) On 1.5 Million Domains!

Congratulations To CoInternet (.co) On 1.5 Million Domains!

By Michele Neylon|2013-03-26T19:15:32+00:00March 26th, 2013|Categories: .co, Domains|Tags: co, Domain name, google, Online Communities, Search engine optimization, social networking, Top-level domain, Twitter|

A couple of hours ago the CEO of .co, Juan Diego Calle, posted a short update, but it signified a ...

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The Easter 2013 opening hours ( also happy easter )

By Tara Callinan|2013-03-26T12:40:23+00:00March 26th, 2013|Categories: Customer Service, General|

Just to let you folks know the opening hours for the Easter Bank Holiday Monday - 1st April 2013 (and ...

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Save Big On US Domains With Hosting

Save Big On US Domains With Hosting

By Michele Neylon|2013-03-20T10:36:41+00:00March 20th, 2013|Categories: ccTLDs, Domains, Press Releases, Promotions|Tags: blacknight, cctlds, Country code, Domain name, hosting, local domain, promotions, United States, us domain|

We're announcing a nice discount deal on .us domain names. If you register a .us domain name and get an ...

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We like stats part II

We like stats part II

By James Larkin|2013-03-14T16:49:16+00:00March 14th, 2013|Categories: Domains, General, IEDR, Promotions|Tags: .ie, Business and Economy, celebrate, Computers and Internet, Country code top-level domain, discount, Domain hack, Domain name, stats, Top-level domain|

It has been a while since we last posted any stats on the blog. So we're at it again. The ...

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Talking Policy & Industry Self-Regulation With CloudFlare

Talking Policy & Industry Self-Regulation With CloudFlare

By Michele Neylon|2013-03-14T12:46:51+00:00March 14th, 2013|Categories: Policy, Video|Tags: censorship, CloudFlare, copyright, internet governance, interview, policy, Video|

There are a few topics and themes that I tend to spend more time talking about than others .. One ...

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Targetting the US Market? Maybe A .US Domain Makes Sense?

Targetting the US Market? Maybe A .US Domain Makes Sense?

By Michele Neylon|2013-03-13T11:19:29+00:00March 13th, 2013|Categories: Business, ccTLDs, Domains|Tags: business, Business and Economy, Country code top-level domain, Domain name, Generic top-level domain, icann, ireland, law, Sony, Top-level domain, United States|

The internet is global, but it's also local. What do I mean? If you're an Irish business you probably have ...

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ICANN Pulls The Trigger on RAA Prematurely

ICANN Pulls The Trigger on RAA Prematurely

By Michele Neylon|2013-03-08T13:31:15+00:00March 8th, 2013|Categories: Domains, ICANN, Legal Issues, Policy|Tags: afilias, Domain name registrar, Generic top-level domain, icann, neustar, RAA, Top-level domain|

Blacknight are an ICANN accredited domain registrar. We're the only Irish company to have ever been accredited by ICANN and ...

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Giving your users more control of their email.

Giving your users more control of their email.

By James Larkin|2018-07-11T11:42:14+01:00March 7th, 2013|Categories: General, Tips|Tags: autoresponder, control, email, forwarder, password, users|

Hot on the heels of "An introduction to the shiny new Blacknight control panel" post we're giving you a post ...

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The Shiny New Blacknight Control Panel

The Shiny New Blacknight Control Panel

By James Larkin|2013-03-07T15:18:24+00:00March 7th, 2013|Categories: General|Tags: Blacknight Control Panel, control panel, CP, Help desk, security, Shiny|

Well it's a bit over a week on from our upgrade of the Control Panel and we're rather happy with ...

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