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ICANN Pulls The Trigger on RAA Prematurely

By on March 8, 2013 in Domains, icann, Legal Issues, policy

Blacknight are an ICANN accredited domain registrar. We’re the only Irish company to have ever been accredited by ICANN and it’s something we’re very proud of. But what on earth does that actually mean? It means that we have contracts and agreements directly with both ICANN and the domain name registries (Verisign, Afilias, Neustar, etc.). [...]

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Blacknight Goes on Offensive Against Fake Pharma, Irish registrar announces partnership with LegitScript

Going on Offensive Against Fake Pharma, Irish registrar announces partnership with LegitScript

By on March 6, 2013 in Domains, Hosting, Legal Issues, policy, Press Releases

I love the internet. I believe in it. I believe that it can make our lives better, improve our choices, help us to gain access to information quickly and easily and also help us to save money. But there’s also a “dark side” and ugly “underbelly”. There’s a very large part of the internet that [...]

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Speak Your Mind On Copyright

By on March 5, 2012 in Legal Issues, policy

We’ve written about copyright, digital rights and our views on the entire thing several times over the past few months. If you missed any of our previous articles on the subject they’re here, here and here. The Irish government has signed into law the SI, which doesn’t really surprise me. It was pretty clear that [...]

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Keep Calm And Read On

Calm Reasoned Dialogue Helps

By on February 1, 2012 in Legal Issues, policy

The last week or so has been “interesting” to say the least. (Last time round it was only a couple of days. …. now it’s stretched to a week) It’s also been incredibly busy, which is why I’m only getting round to posting this now and even now I doubt that anything I post will [...]

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Say No To An Irish SOPA Style Law Say Yes To Democracy

By on January 23, 2012 in Legal Issues, policy

Remember SOPA? We didn’t like it and it was pretty clear that a lot of internet users weren’t too happy about it either. However SOPA was being debated openly in Congress. There was discussion. There were public hearings. There was also a massive backlash of public opinion, but that is one of the beauties of [...]

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Blacknight Says No To SOPA

Blacknight Does Not Support SOPA

By on December 27, 2011 in Domains, Legal Issues, policy

We’ve always been strong believers in striking as sane a balance as possible between privacy, freedom of expression and protection of both 3rd parties’ rights and due process. We maintain good relations with law enforcement, government and the security community. We take our responsibility as a good corporate citizen in the internet ecosystem very seriously. [...]

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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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