ICANN’s 3rd public meeting which is also its AGM will he held in Montreal, Canada
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ICANN 65
The ICANN policy forum is being held in Marrakech, Morocco
Off to Marrakesh for ICANN 65
ICANN public meetings are held three times a year. The most recent one was in Kobe, Japan and the next one will be kicking off this weekend in Marrakesh, Morocco. As usual I’ll be there representing the company, while also sitting on the GNSO Council as one of the 3 representatives of registrars. ICANN operates […]
Off to Bangkok for Domains & DNS
Next week ICANN is organising a number of events that are focussed on the more operational side of domains and DNS. For the last few years ICANN’s Global Domains Division (GDD) has organised an annual conference that was aimed at registrars, registries and related organisations, but with a much stronger focus on our day to […]
ICANN 64 Kobe
The first public ICANN meeting of 2019 is being held in the Japanese city of Kobe.
ICANN Kobe Could be Mostly About Whois (Again!)
I will be attending the upcoming ICANN meeting in Kobe, Japan next week, As ever it’ll be a very busy meeting with a packed schedule, however there are probably one or two topics that are of more importance to us and our clients than others. As some of you may know I am a regular […]
Maintaining Trust, Respecting Privacy and Due Process
In order for the Internet to function properly there has to be “trust”. Trust in “online” is something that has ebbed and flowed over the years, but over the past two decades more and more of our daily lives are linked closely to “digital”. Our banks encourage us to use online banking and their mobile […]
Talking ICANN, GDPR and Domains in Rio
Next week I’ll be heading to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for Domaining Americas. It’s the first time the event is being held, but hopefully it won’t be the last. I’ll be speaking on a couple of topics: ICANN – there’ll be a panel featuring myself, Daniel Fink from ICANN’s Latin American team and Olga Cavalli, […]
Keeping More Data in the European Union
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 […]
ICANN 62
The ICANN public meeting being held in Panama City is ICANN 62, which will be a “policy forum”
ICANN Panama Will be all About GDPR and Data Addiction
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 […]
Some Changes for GDPR Compliance
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 […]