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Blacknight is hiring again; we’re looking for a Junior Engineer to join our engineering team based in Carlow. It’s a great place to live and work, easy to get to from the M9 Dublin – Waterford motorway, and offers an interesting and challenging career. We run a chunk of the Internet with infrastructure in Dublin and Carlow; […]
Tickets for the 2017 Dot IE Net Visionary Awards are selling fast, and a capacity crowd is anticipated for the popular internet industry event at the RDS on 15 September. That’s according to Cathy McGovern of Inspiration Marketing, who is the current chair of the Irish Internet Association which hosts the awards, and our guest […]
Update: Deadline extended until 18 July! Enter now! Nominations are now open for the 19th annual Dot IE Net Visionary Awards, which will be held in the RDS Concert Hall on September 15th. We’re delighted to announce that Blacknight will once again be a sponsor. We’re continuing a tradition we’ve upheld for more than ten […]
DNS. It’s not exciting or particularly interesting for most businesses. Yet you all use the DNS every single day when you browse the internet, send emails or use apps on your mobile phone or tablet. DNS is the internet’s address book system and when it’s working you shouldn’t care about it, but if there’s a […]
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. […]
Earlier this year ICANN commissioned a study to see how aware consumers are of domain name extensions, both “legacy” ones like .com and .org and the new ones such as .tech, .online etc.,. The results make for interesting reading: More than half of respondents (52 percent) were aware of at least one new gTLD. Awareness […]
For the month of July we’re offering a HUGE discount on a selection of domain name extensions. These offers are valid for one year domain name registration. For a mere €1.79 (ex-VAT) you’ll be able to get a nice, shiny domain name in one of the following domain extensions: .tech .space .press .host .website .site […]
Last week I was in Helsinki for the ICANN meeting. ICANN 56 was the first meeting organised using ICANN’s new meeting format. So instead of it being 6 days + of meetings and sessions, the “policy forum” essentially ran from Sunday afternoon until Thursday afternoon, with the bulk of activity focussed between Monday and Thursday. […]
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 […]
We’ve been talking a lot about the launch of short IE domain names over the last few months. The auctions for contested domains from landrush are progressing and we’ve been getting notices from IEDR if our clients are successful. Short domain names like these do not come on the market every day, so it’s not […]