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We’ve written quite a bit over the last few months about data protection, privacy and, of course, GDPR. We’ve always been very cautious about how our data and that of our clients is handled. Wherever possible we’ve always tried to keep data in Ireland or at least firmly within the European Union. However in some […]
The ICANN public meeting being held in Panama City is ICANN 62, which will be a “policy forum”
The 62nd ICANN public meeting will be starting this weekend. The location? Panama City, Panama. I’ll be there both representing Blacknight, as well as in my role as Chair of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, as well as an elected representative of the Registrar Stakeholder Group to the GNSO Council. Translation? I’ll be wearing more than […]
GDPR comes into force this Friday, so it’s time for us to give another small update on what we’ve been doing. TLDR version? All our policies can be found here. We’ve always tried to be transparent about what we do and why we do it, so, in many respects, GDPR doesn’t really change that, but […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on 25 May this year, and one area of contention that has emerged is the question of Whois data. That’s the personal information of individuals or companies who register domain names. For historical reasons, domain registries and registrars have been contractually obliged to collect this data, and to […]
This week on the Blacknight Podcast we talk to Don Hollander, Secretary General of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group at ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 21:12; 12MB; MP3. Regular readers and listeners will know that ICANN is the international […]
I predicted that the ICANN meeting in Abu Dhabi last week would be dominated by discussions centring around GDPR. I was proven correct. Sure, there were other items on the agenda, some that took me and other attendees a little by surprise. But the topic that dominated the meeting was GDPR. With the clock ticking […]
Tomorrow I’ll be heading off to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Much as I’d love to be escaping the Irish winter for the warmer climes of the UAE I’m actually heading over there to participate at the ICANN meeting. As always there’s plenty of things going on within ICANN and the public meetings […]