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Domaining Spain 2013 Valencia

The Domains In Spain Fall Mainly On ..

By on April 22, 2013 in Domains, Events, newtlds

Next week I’ll be heading off to Valencia in Spain for Domaining Spain 2013. I’ll be speaking on a panel next Thursday afternoon which will be focussed on new TLDs. The panel will include myself, Tim Switzer from .Green and Xavier Buck (EuroDNS). Tim and I have been playing email ping pong about the panel [...]

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ICANN 46 Beijing

We’re Off To ICANN 46 Beijing

By on April 3, 2013 in Events, icann, newtlds

Starting this weekend is the 46th ICANN public meeting. We’ll be attending, as usual, and I’ll be doing a followup post later today to give you a taste of what the meeting is about in terms of “key” topics. The 46th ICANN meeting is being held in China, in Beijing. It’s the first ICANN meeting [...]

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Blacknight Urges ICANN to Reconsider “Closed Generic” TLDs

By on February 18, 2013 in Blogging, business, Domains, icann, newtlds, policy, Press Releases, WordPress

We’ve posted about “closed generics” a few times in the past. What are they? Basically they’re applications for new tlds that have two characteristics: the string (the bit on the right of the dot) is very generic the applicant has stated that they don’t plan on allowing the public to register domains using the extension [...]

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ICANN Should Clarify Position On Key Word New TLDs

By on January 25, 2013 in Domains, icann, newtlds, policy

Back in September a number of domain name industry leaders, including ourselves, wrote to ICANN to express our deep felt concerns about some companies declared plans for generic domain name extensions. We have sent ICANN another letter this week, which is included below and are also distributing a press release about it today. Here’s the [...]

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Letter to ICANN: Clarifications On Non-Trademarked Generic Keyword TLD Are Needed

By on January 25, 2013 in icann, newtlds

Earlier this week a group of domain name industry leaders sent a letter to ICANN about the handling of Non-trademarked generic keywords in new TLDs: January 20, 2013 Mr. Cherine Chalaby, Chair of ICANN Board New gTLD Committee Mr. Akram Atallah, COO, ICANN Dr. Steve Crocker, Chair, ICANN Board Mr. Fadi Chehadé, President  & CEO, [...]

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European regional registrar / registry meeting Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Registrars, Registries, Van Gogh and More

By on January 22, 2013 in Events, icann, IDN, newtlds, policy

Tomorrow morning I’m heading off to Amsterdam. I wish it was just to enjoy the city, to soak a bit of culture and to hangout with friends, but it’s for work. ICANN is convening a regional meeting in the Dutch capital for registrars (companies like us), registries (think Neusta, Afilias or Verisign) and prospective domain [...]

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new TLD draw results

Irish Domain Registrar evaluates which new TLDs will first be available for their customers

By on December 20, 2012 in Domains, icann, newtlds, Press Releases

Earlier this week ICANN held a lottery or draw to help determine the prioritisation of new TLD applications We put out this release on it earlier this afternoon Blacknight Announce Results of New gTLD Applicant Priority Draw Irish Registrar evaluates which new TLDs will first be available for their customers. December 20, 2012- Carlow, Ireland [...]

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Press Release: Blacknight to ICANN – The Registration of Generic Key Word TLDs Should Be Available to All People

By on September 26, 2012 in Domains, icann, newtlds, policy, Press Releases

Following on from our post about our letter to ICANN we issued the following press release earlier this morning. September 26, 2012 – Carlow, Ireland – Irish registrar and hosting company Blacknight have sent an objection letter to ICANN concerning several new gTLD applications, which may seek to operate non-trademarked generic word TLDs in a [...]

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Letter To ICANN On Big Brands Proposed Usage Of Generic Domain Extensions

By on September 24, 2012 in Domains, icann, newtlds, policy

As regular readers will know, we have been taking an active interest in the development of the new TLD program by ICANN. We are excited by the many opportunities and challenges that this “opening up” will bring to us, our customers and the internet ecosystem as a whole. However, we also have our concerns about [...]

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Talking About .Cat And More Nacho Amadoz

By on July 7, 2012 in Domains, dotcat, newtlds, Podcasting

The other evening I managed to grab Nacho Amadoz from the .cat domain registry for an interview with Conn and I for technology.ie. Unlike most of our guests Nacho wasn’t planned – it was just a happy accident! Nacho was online chatting with me via Skype so I just grabbed him We talked about what [...]

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Bert and ICANN44

ICANN Prague Post-Mortem

By on July 1, 2012 in Domains, Events, icann, IDN, newtlds, policy

The 44th ICANN public meeting drew to a close on Thursday evening after the “public forum”. It was a long and pretty eventful week so trying to sum it all up quickly isn’t easy and I’ll probably miss some key events. First off ICANN has a new CEO. Fadi Chehadé was announced as the new [...]

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ICANN 44 Prague

ICANN Prague Preview

By on June 20, 2012 in Domains, Events, icann, IDN, Ipv6, newtlds

ICANN’s 44th public meeting is being held in Prague next week and we’ll be attending. It’s one of the three public meetings that ICANN hold every year and they’re always pretty interesting events to attend. This time round there will be a number of topics on the agenda. Some of them are new, while some [...]

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