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ICANN Costa Rica – What Will Be Going On?

By on March 8, 2012 in Domains, Events, icann, newtlds, policy

ICANN 43 is taking place next week in Costa Rica and we’ll be there. Due to miscalculations on my side I ended up getting here last night. I’ll be giving a talk on social media for country code managers later this afternoon as part of the Taller de Aspectos Económicos (Workshop on Economic Aspects) for [...]

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New TLD Application Window Opens Tomorrow What Does It Mean?

By on January 11, 2012 in Domains, icann, newtlds

  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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New TLDs From Registrar Perspective

By on September 17, 2011 in Domains, Events, icann, newtlds

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 [...]

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Speaking On New TLDs In Serbia

By on September 10, 2011 in cctlds, Domains, Events, IDN, newtlds

I’ll be speaking on a panel about new TLDs at the 4th International Conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe next week in Serbia. The conference will bring together domain industry experts from all over Europe for two days with a fairly packed agenda. Topics that are on the agenda [...]

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Blacknight Warn Consumers Against New gTLD Pre-Registration

By on June 30, 2011 in Domains, icann, newtlds, Press Releases

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 [...]

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New TLDs Explained In Plain English

By on June 26, 2011 in Domains, icann, IDN, newtlds

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)

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Blacknight Welcomes the Approval of New gTLDs

By on June 20, 2011 in Domains, newtlds, Press Releases

This morning in Singapore, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a program that will change the Internet, as we know it. Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com) welcome  ICANN’ s decision to launch new generic top-level domains. A top-level domain includes extensions (as in after the dot) such as .com, .net, .org. The New gTLD [...]

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New TLDs – Big Decision Monday .. . Maybe ..

By on June 18, 2011 in Domains, icann, newtlds

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 [...]

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ICANN 39 Colombia – XXX, New TLDs and more

By on December 4, 2010 in Domains, Events, icann, newtlds, policy

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 [...]

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ICANN Seoul Hangover

By on November 1, 2009 in Domains, Events, icann, IDN, newtlds

I’m just back from the ICANN meeting in Seoul, South Korea. I had planned on posting with updates during the week, but, as you can see, that didn’t happen. Why? Simply put – it was an incredibly busy meeting, both in general and for me personally. I’m now back in Ireland struggling to get over [...]

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Congratulations ICANN

By on September 30, 2009 in business, icann, IDN, newtlds, policy

As an internet business it is only natural that we would be concerned with the development of policies that affect our sector. Earlier today ICANN‘s agreement with the US government came to an end. It has been replaced with a new document which paves the way for the future – a bright future which is [...]

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Supporting New TLDs

By on September 25, 2009 in Domains, newtlds

It’s probably pretty obvious from previous posts here that we have an interest in the new TLD process. (ICANN’s plan to open up the domain market more by allowing organisations to run new domain extensions) Earlier this week ICANN CEO, Rod Beckstrom, was sent a letter signed by a wide variety of companies, including us, [...]

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