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Get Your IPv6 On

By on June 8, 2011 in Ipv6

Today is World IPv6 Day. It’s geektastic! So what is actually happening today? A lot of content providers from the four corners of the globe are “switching on” IPv6 for their websites today. That means that if your ISP is giving you an IPv6 connection you’ll be able to connect to the content via v6 [...]

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IP4 Final Allocations Ceremony

By on February 4, 2011 in icann, Ipv6

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:

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Irish IPv6 Summit

By on May 19, 2010 in Events, Ipv6

We’ve talked about IPv6 several times in the past. The Irish IPv6 Summit is being held in Dublin Castle today and will feature speakers from both Ireland and overseas. This year’s summit is using the “clock is ticking” motif ie. time is running out. The event is split into sections which cover various user scenarios: [...]

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Getting More Geek Points – IPv6 Chez Blacknight

By on March 28, 2010 in Ipv6, network

We’ve mentioned IPv6 a few times in the past. It’s not exactly a “sexy” or exciting topic. Anyone who tells you otherwise probably needs to get out more! It is, however, a very important topic. IPv4, which has been around for years, provides for IP addresses such as: 192.168.1.1 That’s fine and dandy and most [...]

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IPv6 Adoption?

By on September 29, 2008 in Ipv6, network, policy

Image via Wikipedia Leo Vegoda posted an interesting article today on CircleID about ipv6 deployment and adoption. While Leo admits that measuring ipv6 isn’t an exact science he was able to identify that the African region (AfriNIC) is announcing more ipv6 space than any of the other regions, including Europe. So what about Ireland? Sixxs [...]

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Sixy – Directory of ipv6 Enabled Sites

By on July 26, 2008 in Ipv6, Seo, Tips

If your site is accessible over ipv6 or you simply want to find other ipv6 enabled sites then a new web directory called Sixy might be of interest. Unlike a lot of more traditional directories Sixy uses tags to categorise sites and as a site owner you can specify which ones you’d like associated with [...]

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Blacknight IPv6 – ICANN Folllwup

By on July 18, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, icann, Ipv6, network, News

Image via Wikipedia As I mentioned previously, I was asked to give a presentation on IPv6, or more specifically, our experience with deploying IPv6, at the recent ICANN meeting in Paris. Leo Vegoda has posted an excellent followup of the session on the ICANN blog, summarising the speakers’ various comments and thoughts. While we may [...]

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ICANN Paris – New TLDs, ipv6, Dottel and dotme

By on June 30, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, dottel, Events, icann, Ipv6

Last week’s ICANN meeting proved to be incredibly busy, both in terms of number of attendees and the number of announcements made. From our point of view there were a number of topics that are relevant and important to our business and I’ll be posting about some of these in the coming weeks both here [...]

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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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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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IPv6 Getting More Press Coverage

By on May 28, 2008 in Hosting, Ipv6, irishblogs

It’s interesting to see that the media has been giving some more coverage to IPv6 over the last couple of days. I was interviewed by ENN yesterday afternoon for a piece they put out in the evening: EC urges speedy adoption of IPv6 Basically the EU is beginning to take an interest so there may, [...]

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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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