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Companies get bought and sold or changed in some way all the time. It’s completely normal. During the economic downturn a lot of companies were closed, but not all changes are bad news. Maybe a particular business venture simply isn’t working out and you decide to shut it down for a while, or you simply […]
I’ll be spending the better part of 24 hours travelling from Ireland to South Africa this week. While I do intend to spend a few days enjoying the pleasures of Johannesburg and Cape Town, that’s not why I’m going there. Yes, it’s that time again. Yet another ICANN meeting. The “new” meeting format that ICANN […]
Its enforcement date in all EU member states is 25 May 2018, less than 12 months away, after which any organisations that are non-compliant will face heavy fines. Within Ireland awareness is low. Only 14% of small to medium enterprises have begun to prepare, according to a study for the Data Protection Commissioner, and while […]
Blacknight, as you know, is a 100% Irish owned and operated company. It’s something we’re proud of and one of the many reasons Irish businesses trust us to provide them with services. This week, however, I am not in Ireland. I’m not even in Europe. Instead I am in Washington DC joining other members of […]
I’ll be heading to Hyderabad, India on Tuesday for the ICANN meeting which is being held there. As usual the meeting will be very busy on the policy front, but I’ll also be meeting with several of our domain registry partners and others over the course of the 10 day trip. This is the first […]
At midnight last night a new era in the evolution of the Internet was ushered in. As of midnight EST the US government’s contract with ICANN has expired and the IANA transition is done. (Sure, there are still details that need to be finalised and ironed out, but the expiry of the contract is the […]
I’ve mentioned the IANA transition here several times over the last year or so. Personally I’d love to not have to mention it ever again, as it’s not the kind of topic that we should be spending too much time thinking about or worrying about. There are plenty of other things out there that cause […]
We’ve already celebrated the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web. On 12 March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee submitted his original proposal for a distributed system of hyperlinked documents on the internet. Just over two years later, the web went public, when Berners -Lee began posting details of The WWW Project on newsgroups, beginning on 6 August 1991. […]
Over the past year or so I’ve been involved with the IEDR’s Policy Advisory Committee along with representatives from other registrars, the Irish government and a variety of other stakeholder organisations. So far we’ve been working our way through a number of policy changes that have been on the table for some time. Some of the […]
Back in March 2014 the US government, via the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which is part of the US Department of Commerce, signalled that it was ready to decouple the US government from the IANA functions. While the announcement from NTIA may have come as a surprise to some, it was something that had been […]
For the past two years ICANN and the broader internet community have been working towards one goal: removing the special relationship the US government has with the IANA functions. It’s an odd beast, but the IANA, like so much of the internet’s “plumbing” is essential, yet not that well known or understood by outsiders. The […]
As you may know, ICANN holds three public meetings every year. The most recent one, ICANN 54, was held in Dublin ie. just up the road! Remember the numbers from that one? So the next meeting is being held in Marrakech, Morocco. It starts “officially” next Saturday, though I will need to head over on Thursday […]