Tomorrow, January 12th 2012 ICANN will open the application window for new TLDs. What on earth does that mean? Companies, organisations, groups and even cities will be applying to run their own domain name extension. What is a domain name extension? It’s the bit on the right of the dot (“.”). For example, blacknight.com [...]
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January Blues Getting You Down? Save Big In Our Mega Hosting and Domain Name Sale!
Today’s the first day back at work in 2012 for most people. We know that a lot of people find January to be a tough month … but every cloud has a silver lining .. January is sale time! Here at Blacknight we like bringing you discounts whenever and whereever we can. This January’s sale, [...]
New TLDs From Registrar Perspective
Last week I was speaking at the 4th International Conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe in Novi Sad, Serbia. Here are the slides, though they might not make a huge amount of sense, as they’re more notes than anything else New TLDs from a Registrar Perspective View more presentations [...]
Blacknight Warn Consumers Against New gTLD Pre-Registration
June 30, 2011 – Carlow Ireland -Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com) warn domain registrants to beware of companies offering pre-registrations in New gTLDs. Last week in Singapore, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), announced that it would launch a program to include new generic top-level domains. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, gTLD is an acronym [...]
New TLDs Explained In Plain English
ICANN has released a video which explains in simple terms what new TLDs are all about and what is going to happen: Related articles ICANN Board Votes in Favour of New TLDs (internetnews.me) Blacknight Welcomes the Approval of New gTLDs (blacknight.com) George Sadowsky’s Explanation of His No Vote (internetnews.me)
New TLDs – Big Decision Monday .. . Maybe ..
This week I’m attending the ICANN meeting in Singapore.The hottest topic of the meeting is whether or not ICANN’s board of directors will make a decision on new TLDs. If new TLDs are given a green light this week then it will signal the beginning of a whole new era in the domain name industry [...]
ICANN 41 Singapore Next Week
Later today I’ll be starting my journey to the 41st public ICANN meeting which is being held in Singapore. As usual the official meeting doesn’t start until Monday, but the timetable for the weekend is pretty full! I’ll be speaking on several panels and sessions throughout the week on a range of topics ranging from [...]
Governments, New TLDs, WHOIS, XXX, Clinton and Porn Stars
I’ll be heading off to San Francisco tomorrow morning to attend ICANN 40. Unless you’re an internet policy “geek” it’s pretty hard to get people excited about an ICANN meeting. This time round, however, it looks like it could be pretty exciting and might even turn into a bit of a media circus. Former US [...]
IP4 Final Allocations Ceremony
The final blocks of IPv4 addresses were allocated to the regional registries by ICANN yesterday. Here are two videos of the historic event – the IPv4 era is over – long live IPv6! And the press conference afterwards:
So What Happened At ICANN?
Image via Wikipedia We attended the 39th ICANN public meeting recently in Cartagena, Colombia. It was a very busy week, but what actually happened? The two big “issues” that people have been keeping an eye on are “new TLDs” and “XXX”. We’ve mentioned both in the past here, but to refresh your memory .. A [...]
ICANN 39 Colombia – XXX, New TLDs and more
Although it doesn’t start officially until Monday morning, the conference centre in Cartagena de las Indias, Colombia, is already buzzing with talk about domains and internet policy. From now until next Friday Cartagena will play host to the 39th public ICANN meeting and Blacknight, as Ireland’s only ICANN accredited registrar, is attending and participating. The [...]
Not Happy With Policy? Make Your Voice Heard!
As regular readers know we are actively involved in domain name and internet industry self-regulation and policy development. It has always been my personal belief that if you have the ability to make your voice heard then you should take advantage of any and all opportunities to do so. Why? Because the world is not [...]
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