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.co IDN domain names

Asian IDNs Now Available Under .Co

By on May 10, 2013 in .co, Domains, Press Releases

We’ve mentioned IDNs in the past. Basically an IDN domain name allows you to register using non-ASCII characters. At the simplest level that might be the addition of an accent to a vowel, but if your native language is Arabic, Greek, Chinese, Korean etc., then it’s an entirely different character set. Of course IDN domain [...]

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Every Time You Register A Domain Name with a Hyphen, a Puppy Dies

Think of the Puppies!

By on May 1, 2013 in Domains, Events, Press Releases

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m passionate about the Internet. They’ll probably also tell you that I’m very passionate about domains and marketing. A good domain, in my opinion, can make or break a business. If you’re too “clever” people won’t be able to find you, or send you email. Sure, if you’re a [...]

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New Domain Registration Agreement Recognises Local Law and Privacy

By on April 23, 2013 in Domains, icann, policy

I’ve spoken about the RAA (Registrar Accreditation Agreement) in the past. I haven’t always been too positive about the planned changes to the contract and considering some of the things we were being asked to do my reaction was, in my view, quite reasonable. Not only did some versions of the text demand far too [...]

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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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RIPE 66 Dublin May 2013

RIPE Coming To Dublin And We’re Sponsoring AND Speaking

By on April 16, 2013 in Events

Next month RIPE 66 will be held in Dublin. And not only will we be attending, but we’re also sponsoring it and I’ll be speaking at it. I’ve been to several RIPE meetings in the past and they’re an interesting mix of material covering both policy and highly technical topics. This time round I’m speaking [...]

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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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i2coalition + blacknight

Don’t Ignore The Internet’s Nuts and Bolts

By on April 3, 2013 in policy, Press Releases

The internet as we know it is under constant attack. I don’t mean by DDOS or other “charming” things, though it’d be incredibly dumb to ignore them. What I’m talking about is the ongoing battle between the “open” and “free”. What I’m talking about is the balance between industry “self-regulation” vs government’s “top down” regulation [...]

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Save Big On US Domains With Hosting

By on March 20, 2013 in cctlds, Domains, Press Releases, Promotions

We’re announcing a nice discount deal on .us domain names. If you register a .us domain name and get an annual website hosting plan at the same time you’ll get the .us domain name for only EUR5.99 (ex-VAT) for the first year. You can read a bit more about .us domain names and why we [...]

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Blacknight Sponsor 10th Annual Cork Lifelong Learning Festival

By on March 4, 2013 in Events

We’ve been sponsors of the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival for the last couple of years and are delighted to be involved again this year. Details below: Blacknight Sponsor 10th Annual Cork Lifelong Learning Festival Leading domain registrar continues commitment to local education March 4, 2013 – Carlow, Ireland – Ireland’s leading domain registrar and hosting [...]

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Where do I go now Posterous is closing down?

By on February 21, 2013 in Blogging, Domains, Hosting, Promotions

This week we’ve seen the news that Posterous is closing down towards the end of April. The old saying “if you’re not paying for a product then you are the product” seems to ring true once again. It goes to show that if you plan on setting up a home on the web it really [...]

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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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blacknight hiring - Bert has questions

Want A Job? Linux & Windows Expertise Required

By on February 16, 2013 in Careers, Hosting

We are hiring again. (I love being able to say that!) This time round we’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer with experience and knowledge of both Windows and Linux. What kind of things would you be doing? As part of our engineering team you’d be working on both maintaining thousands of servers (both virtual [...]

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