Archive | June, 2009

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Rod Beckstrom Announced as New ICANN CEO

By on June 26, 2009 in icann

At the ICANN board meeting in Sydney this afternoon Mr Rod Beckstrom was confirmed as the new CEO of ICANN. The board passed the resolution with acclamation. Mr Beckstrom then took the stage to address both the board and the audience. He comes across as a highly intelligent and “clued in” individual with a good [...]

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ICANN 35 Sees More New Domain Extension Announcements

By on June 25, 2009 in Domains, Events, icann

Over the course of this week’s ICANN meeting in Sydney, Australia, new TLDs (top level domains ie. the bit after the “.”) have been “the” topic. The other evening I was lucky enough to be invited to the official launch of dotfood, which is being promoted by Wolfgang Puck and backed by Minds and Machines [...]

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ICANN Sydney Kicking Off

By on June 20, 2009 in Events, icann, newtlds

ICANN Sydney Goodie Bag Contents Originally uploaded by blacknight Although the 35th public ICANN meeting, which is being held in the Sydney Hilton, does not officially open until Monday, registration opened earlier today. I picked up my delegate bag in the last hour or so and was delighted to see our material had made it [...]

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Down Under Special – ICANN Sydney

By on June 18, 2009 in Events, Hosting, icann

Since the ICANN meeting is about to open here in Sydney this weekend and we’re one of the sponsors,  I thought we’d do a small offer to tie in with the event… So, from now until just after the end of the meeting (June 28th) we’re offering 20% off all annual and 24 month shared [...]

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Blacknight Now Microsoft Gold Partner

By on June 16, 2009 in Blacknight, News

A couple of months ago we got a nice shiny object from Microsoft, so now I’m delighted to say we got its “big brother”. Blacknight is now officially a Microsoft Gold Partner! “Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.” That’s [...]

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New TLDs For Dummies (Sort of)

By on June 11, 2009 in Domains, icann, newtlds, policy, Tips

There’s been a lot of media attention on the new TLD process in the last few days, which is a good thing. Unfortunately most of it is badly written, misleading or simply misinformed. Let’s look at the reality. To start with, there are currently 20 gTLDs ie. “global” top level domains (extensions). (21 if you [...]

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Blacknight Solutions the Largest Irish Seller of .EU Domain Names

By on June 11, 2009 in Domains, eurid, Press Releases

Blacknight Solutions, Ireland’s leading internet services company, is proud to announce it is now the largest domain name registrar for .eu domain names in Ireland. “A .eu domain name is a great way not just for Irish businesses, but all Europeans, to promote themselves throughout Europe and the wider world,” said Michele Neylon, CEO of [...]

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Tshirt Competition – The Aftermath

By on June 9, 2009 in Blacknight, Competitions

Sorry for not posting about the tshirt competition – we got a little sidetracked with other things … In any case … We received a lot of really impressive entries – so many that it proved impossible to chose a single winner, so we “chickened out” and chose three! The winners we chose were: Jennifer [...]

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