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UPDATE: Tickets competition extended to Friday 2 September! TheOuting.LGBT is more than just clever use of a new Top Level Domain – it’s a brilliant idea to celebrate the positive, forward-looking Ireland we in Blacknight are proud to be a part of. As festival organiser Eddie McGuinness describes it: “it’s a new twist on an old tradition”. Historically, people […]
We are strong believers in the right to privacy. It’s not an afterthought and as I’ve said in the past, privacy and security go hand in hand. For more than a year I’ve been involved in an ICANN working group which is tasked with examining whois privacy and proxy services and coming up with an […]
Tomorrow afternoon the .irish “landrush” will close. So if you want to get your hands on a slick shiny .irish web address you’ve got less than 24 hours to get that order in. This is really exciting. On June 25, which is just over 5 days off, the .irish domain name extension will be available […]
We’re really excited to be one of the first companies on the planet to get a .press domain name. The .press registry opened applications several weeks back for “pioneers” ie. companies and individuals that would be a “good fit” for .press domains. For us .press made perfect sense for our PR and media content. Like […]
Since we finally signed the 2013 contract with ICANN our technical team has been beavering away on integrating with the new TLD registries. So far we’ve launched 7 new top level domains and we’ll be adding a LOT more (watch this space for updates!) We’re really looking forward to seeing what kind of cool things […]
Last night without any fanfare ICANN quietly published an announcement on their website. For ICANN the announcement was processed in much the same way as all the other announcements they make. It wasn’t given any extra focus and it was just an administrative matter for them For us, however, the announcement signalled the end of […]
A clean and crime free internet would be a good thing. Unfortunately, as we all know, the current reality is quite different and there is a constant onslaught of junk assaulting us all. Be it spam, malware, scams or anything else, there’s a lot of nasty behaviour being conducted online. Is it all bad? No […]
A lot of Internet Governance isn’t “sexy” or “exciting”. A lot of it is meetings, conference calls and emails discussing quite abstract concepts. However, from time to time, there are big historic events that capture the world’s attention. Last Friday evening the US government made one such announcement. Up until now the US government has […]
Next week is going to be quite a busy week! As I mentioned yesterday, I’ll be in Belgrade on Monday to speak on a panel at the Serbian domain event. On Tuesday afternoon I’ll be speaking again, though this time it’ll be in Stockholm at the NetNod spring meeting. It’s quite a contrast. Serbia vs […]
Serbia is a very vibrant and interesting country. Their domain registry is organising an event next Monday and I’m delighted and honoured to have been invited to speak on a panel. It should be an interesting event and getting the perspective from Serbians should make it all the more interesting. Here’s the release we put […]
I love the internet. I love technology. I love the way that the Internet has revolutionised so many aspects of our daily lives. Before the advent of the Internet it would have been a lot harder for a small Irish company, such as ourselves, to succeed on an international stage. Unfortunately, unless you’ve been hiding […]
Social media. It’s probably one of the biggest buzzwords of the last few years. We believe in “social”. It works. Engaging with customers, both existing and prospective, can and will help your business, as long as you are genuine. Being able to incorporate social media into our customer support centre was one of the reasons […]