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ICANN Meeting Opens In Paris

By on June 24, 2008 in afilias, Blacknight, Domains, dotasia, dotmobi, dottel, enum, eurid, Events, icann, Ipv6, nominet

ICANN’s 32nd International public meeting opened in Paris yesterday morning. There are several hot topics on the agenda and judging by the crowds of people at last night’s welcome cocktail, attendance levels are good. If you’re interested in finding out more head over to the meeting’s official site where you can find details of meetings, [...]

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Upcoming Events – Busy Times

By on June 16, 2008 in BarCampBelfast, Blacknight, Events, icann, irishblogs

Image via Wikipedia The next couple of weeks look like they are going to be quite busy. Thursday evening sees the Firefox party in Dublin, which is sponsored by ourselves, PutPlace, Wubud and BT. If you’re in Paris this week there’s a domainer meeting being held prior to the ICANN meeting. It looks like quite [...]

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IPv6 At ICANN Paris

By on June 10, 2008 in Blacknight, icann, Ipv6, irishblogs

Image via Wikipedia (ICANN meeting Lisbon, 2007) I will be heading over to the ICANN meeting in Paris next week. At present ICANN holds international meetings three times a year and it’s a very good opportunity to get involved with the discussions of policy and future development of the internet. While I am looking forward [...]

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Don’t Be Held To Ransom!

By on April 16, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, eurid, Hosting, icann, iedr, irishblogs, Legal Issues, nominet, Tips

At times I feel like I’m a broken record. I keep finding myself saying the same thing to people, possibly using different words or turns of phrase, but the message is essentially the same. If you register a domain name and pay for it you have certain rights. Of course you also have certain obligations, [...]

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Blacknight On WebmasterRadio.fm

By on March 20, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, dotasia, eurid, Hosting, icann, iedr, Ipv6, irishblogs, Marketing, network, News, nominet, Podcasting, redundancy, verisign

Journalists call from time to time asking me to talk about various internet related topics. Most of the time the publications or shows are “general interest”, so you can only talk about very general things. Last night, however, was quite different, as I was one of the guests on “Domain Masters” which is broadcast and [...]

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Registrar’s Lock-In of Searched Names Could Spur Class-Action Litigation

By on January 11, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, icann, irishblogs, verisign

The following article was published earlier today in Washington Internet Daily. It is reproduced here with the publisher’s permission. I posted a related article on my domain blog earlier this week. Registrar Network Solutions could face legal action over its practice of locking in domain names that are searched but not bought, Michigan attorney Enrico [...]

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ICANN Los Angeles Aftermath

By on November 5, 2007 in Blacknight, Events, icann

I just got back from the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles, California. As happens with those kind of events you spend about a week soaking up information. There are a lot of people in the internet industry globally and some of them are doing very interesting and exciting things. I’ll be posting about some of [...]

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New ICANN Board Announced in Los Angeles

By on November 2, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, icann, irishblogs

I’m currently attending the 30th International ICANN meeting in Los Angeles, California. This morning we have been sitting through the final meeting of the outgoing board and the handover to the new one Peter Dengate Thrush has been chosen to fill the position vacated by Vint Cerf. Today also marks the addition of Dr Dennis [...]

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Putting the accent on domains – IDN ICANN LA

By on October 29, 2007 in Events, icann

One of the main theme’s at the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles, California, is IDN – internationalised domain names. IDN has been a topic of much interest, discussion and debate for the last few years as currently you cannot use non-ascii characters in domain names. While that may not be an issue for an English [...]

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What’s on at ICANN LA

By on October 24, 2007 in Blacknight, Events, icann

I’m heading off to Los Angeles in the morning to attend the ICANN meeting. I’ll try to blog a bit from there either on here or on my personal blog or my domain news blog (you’re spoilt for choice!). The meeting agenda is available online. If you’re not a big fan of TLAs (three letter [...]

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ICANN Los Angeles

By on October 22, 2007 in Blacknight, Events, icann, irishblogs, News

The next ICANN meeting is being held in Los Angeles, California. Although the meeting doesn’t officially start until the Monday there will be meetings and events over the weekend as well. I’ll be attending again, as there are quite a few topics of interest on the table. If you’re interested in the meeting schedule, then [...]

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Domain Registrant Rights

By on October 18, 2007 in afilias, Blacknight, Domains, dotasia, dotmobi, eurid, icann, iedr, irishblogs, nominet, Tips, verisign

As a domain registrant you have certain rights. Unfortunately those rights can be abused by companies that don’t believe in ethical business practices. It would be nice and simple if the whois display were the same across all TLDs (ie. domain extensions), but they’re not. A basic right is for the domain to be registered [...]

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