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
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, [...]
Amsterdam, Registrars, Registries, Van Gogh and More
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 [...]
Dot Cat Domains Now Come With Better Privacy
If you’re a private individual and are using your domain name for your private personal use (ie. not for any form of business or commercial purpose) then you might like a bit of privacy. We get that. That’s why we launched our whois privacy service last year so that you can get a bit more [...]
Irish Domain Registrar evaluates which new TLDs will first be available for their customers
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 [...]
Press Release: Blacknight Ring in the Holidays With Happychristmas.me and Big Domain Discounts
We’re not shy about sharing our news and offers, so our super duper PR person extraordinaire put together a press release for us in record time.. and it’s now winging its way across the interwebs to spread the news .. What’s it about? Our super duper Christmas discounts of course! Here it is .. Blacknight [...]
Press Release: Blacknight Customers Stand Out With .ME Domains
There’s no point having a super duper “kick ass” discount promotion on .me domain names if nobody knows about it so of course we’ve sent out a press release on this… Here it is Blacknight Customers Stand Out With .ME Domains Registrar offers deep discounts on .ME domains with the purchase of a Hosting package [...]
Press Release: Michele Neylon of Blacknight Elected Secretary of ICANN Registrar Stakeholder Group
Most of the press releases we put out are about general company news or events and things that we are participating in. However from time to time there is a little bit of news that is a bit more personal. Today is one of those days. I’m delighted to have been elected as Secretary to [...]
ICANN Toronto Quick Preview
We’ll be attending the ICANN meeting in Toronto next week. It’s the 3rd ICANN public meeting this year and as always the schedule is very busy. Choosing which sessions to attend is always a challenge at ICANN public meetings. I’ll be representing Blacknight as usual. We are actively involved in the Registrar Stakeholder Group, which [...]
Press Release: Blacknight Announce Free .CO Domains for Getting Business Online
I love it when a plan comes together! Over the past few weeks (and months) our team has been working on making some changes and enhancements to the Getting Business Online in order to improve the service for everyone. Some of the changes are subtle, yet important, while others are pretty big. Today we are [...]
Press Release: Blacknight to ICANN – The Registration of Generic Key Word TLDs Should Be Available to All People
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 [...]
Letter To ICANN On Big Brands Proposed Usage Of Generic Domain Extensions
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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