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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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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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Anonymous Targets Irish Government Sites In Response To “Irish SOPA”

By on January 25, 2012 in News, policy

The last couple of days have been very “interesting”. As I mentioned previously, the Irish government intends to enact legislation that could have a “chilling effect”. I went into this a bit in my previous post and far more eloquent people have written extensively about the entire subject. My key issues with the legislation can [...]

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Stop SOPA Ireland

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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Wikipedia And Other High Profile Sites Protest SOPA / PIPA

By on January 18, 2012 in Events, News, policy

I posted about our thoughts on SOPA and why we were opposed to it over Christmas. In the last week or so the US government has backpedalled to a certain degree in respect of the tabled SOPA legislation, but they still want something. Whether it’s “a” SOPA, PIPA or something else is you can be [...]

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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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Stopping Badware

By on August 22, 2011 in Hosting, network, policy, security

I’ve always been a strong believer that good behaviour and a clean internet would lead to a better experience for everyone. There is a lot of nasty stuff out there and we’ve always tried to do what we can to stop it from affecting our clients. Unfortunately “network abuse” is not “sexy” or exciting and [...]

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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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Have your say

Not Happy With Policy? Make Your Voice Heard!

By on July 26, 2010 in icann, policy

As regular readers know we are actively involved in domain name and internet industry self-regulation and policy development. It has always been my personal belief that if you have the ability to make your voice heard then you should take advantage of any and all opportunities to do so. Why? Because the world is not [...]

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IRMA, Eircom and the Death of Freedom

By on May 26, 2010 in News, policy

I was brought up to be proud of my heritage. Having lived and worked outside Ireland I was never ashamed of my Irish identity. However that has changed. When private organisations like IRMA and Eircom skip the judicial process and enter into agreements that curtail free speech it makes me ashamed to carry an Irish [...]

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Moving Forward With .XXX Makes Sense

By on April 23, 2010 in icann, policy, xxx

Internet policy and the domain name space is constantly evolving. As a company actively involved in this space we try our best to keep abreast of changes that affect us both in Ireland, the EU and globally. We also like to take an active part in the policy change and development when we can. We [...]

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