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I’ll be attending events in Canada next week. The first part of the week will be devoted to ICANN related matters at the GDD Summit in Vancouver. While the schedule for the event has a fairly broad range of topics I suspect a lot of the discussions will be around GDPR and how we’re all […]
Over the past couple of years hundreds of new domain name extensions have been made available to businesses and individuals around the globe. Choice is a good thing, so we’ve been happy to offer most of those domain names to our clients around the world. However there are a few domain name extensions that have […]
Baltic Domain Days is the first domain industry event focusing specifically on Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The main topics will cover domain name take down, blocking, cybercrime and intellectual property rights.
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 […]
Dietmar Stefitz is our guest on the Blacknight Podcast today. He’s the organiser of Domaining Europe – now known as NamesCon Europe following its takeover earlier this month. Blacknight is a sponsor of the event. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 12:59; 7MB; MP3. A native of Austria, […]
It’s now WAY easier to register .ie domain names. You no longer have to produce complicated documents or compose letters explaining “why” you want to register a particular domain name. All you need is to provide proof of your connection to Ireland. Simple. And if you already have a .ie domain name (or more than […]
Blacknight is an Irish company that does business internationally. It helps a lot that we speak English, and that lots of other people do around the world. But as the Internet brings us all closer, it also reveals the rich diversity of our cultures and languages to each other. Some people think that some languages […]
When I attended my first ICANN meeting back in 2007 things were very different to now. The meetings were a lot smaller and ICANN itself was a much lower profile organisation overall. However one topic was on the agenda then and it’s still on the agenda now. Whois. No matter how hard you try that […]
We are delighted to finally share the news with you all that from March 21st 2018 IE domain name registration will become a LOT easier. You’ll no longer have to show a “claim” to a domain name. All you’ll need to do is show your connection to Ireland, which is easy if you’re a resident […]
Next week I’ll be attending both a registrar training event and Domain Pulse in Munich, Germany. It makes sense to colocate multiple events, so ICANN are holding a registrar event in the same venue as the bigger Domain Pulse to capitalise on attendance. While Domain Pulse is running Thursday and Friday a few of us will also […]