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The guys in MadeInHollywood have come up with yet another cool concept.Remember when we had a few Microsoft mugs to give away? Well one of the problems we ran into was that the mugs weren't packed ie. no boxes or anything, so shipping them was a problem...
While in Sydney I did my best to take as many photos as possible, though I also discovered the limitations of carrying a big SLR around with me ...In any case you'll find my shots over on Flickr.Other people's photos should be viewable on Flickr here if they're tagged with "icann" (I'm not the only...
Our Windows sysadmins inform me that there are still one or two Windows packages available on our special promo pricingSignup now for the Windows 2008 Minimus and pay only 29.95 for the first year (when that offer's gone it's gone....
Blacknight Loads more photos from the ICANN meeting over on http://www.flickr.com/photos/mneylon/
Blacknight I'll be uploading more photos taken at the ICANN meeting over the next few days. In the meantime you can find a lot of them on Flickr tagged "icann"
At the ICANN board meeting in Sydney this afternoon Mr Rod Beckstrom was confirmed as the new CEO of ICANN. The board passed the resolution with acclamation.Mr Beckstrom then took the stage to address both the board and the audience...
Since the ICANN meeting is about to open here in Sydney this weekend and we're one of the sponsors, I thought we'd do a small offer to tie in with the event...So, from now until just after the end of the meeting (June 28th) we're offering 20% off all annual and 24 month shared hosting plan orders...
A couple of months ago we got a nice shiny object from Microsoft, so now I'm delighted to say we got its "big brother".Blacknight is now officially a Microsoft Gold Partner!"Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies and have the...
Sorry for not posting about the tshirt competition - we got a little sidetracked with other things ...In any case ...We received a lot of really impressive entries - so many that it proved impossible to chose a single winner, so we "chickened out" and chose three!The winners we chose were:Jennifer...
Image via WikipediaI am a strong advocate of the new TLD process that is currently ongoing in the ICANN community and it is something that will be central to the discussions in the upcoming meeting in Sydney.One of the areas that I feel particularly strong about is privacy for registrants.If you...
As some people may know we also run Irish ISP Test, which has been providing Irish (and international) broadband users with a speed test service for the last few years. Earlier this week we were delighted to welcome Magnet's official representative to the site...
This Monday, 1st June 2009, is a bank holiday in Ireland...
I'll keep this short, sweet and to the point.Tomorrow morning we will be upgrading the hardware on several or our web servers.If your site is hosted on any of the affected servers there will be some downtime - probably less than a minute, but possibly longer.Full details are over on our technical...
Several of our clients have been in touch with us recently regarding yet another scam.At least one company is targetting small businesses offering them "guaranteed first page position on Google".To make matters worse they're also claiming to have a special relationship with Google.Now don't get me...
Milestones are great, especially when you least expect them.Earlier today I logged into our Eurid account to check some figures and saw this:We're now the largest Eurid accredited registrar in Ireland and climbing up the overall charts steadily (we've still got a long way to go globally!)
As some people were asking I'm making available the slides from the session this afternoon on online brand protection.As you can see my slides aren't particularly long or detailed, but hopefully people will get some idea of what I was talking aboutQuestions / comments welcome as...
Due to demand vs. supply we had to stop selling Linux based VPS servers a few days ago. It's nice problem to have!In any case they're available again now, as we put in a few more hardware nodes.You can check out the various Linux powered VPS over here
Blacknight We'll have a presence at the IIA Congress this week in Dublin, so if you're going to be there do say "hi"
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Next month sees the 35th public ICANN meeting being held in Sydney, Australia. I've been going to the public meetings as often as I can over the last couple of years and find them to be a fantastic opportunity to get involved with global policy development...
As part of the IIA Congress this week I'll be involved in one of the afternoon "breakout" sessions:Protect Your Brand GloballyThe session, which is sponsored by Eurid, will involve registry operators (Eurid), registrars (Blacknight) and the legal profession (Matheson Ormsby Prentice).What will we...
We love getting feedback from people and while we may not always reply or act on it, we do listen and read it all.So it's only fair that we share one user's vision for our website. Admittedly it's a bit biased, but I thought we'd share it anyway ...Well what do you think...
Following on from some random chatter on Twitter earlier this evening it's become apparent that some people would be interested in training..Training on what though?Well that's really up to you...Obvious topics that could be considered:the control panelPleskdns basicsdomain basics (and maybe more...
If you're using Windows have you upgraded to the latest version of Internet Explorer...
IQContent have been running their Bootcamp event for the last few years and the lineup yet again this year looks really impressive.Topics that they'll be covering include:Web StrategyWeb ContentUser Experience and DesignOnline MarketingTechnologyWhy do I mention this...
When ICANN announced at its June meeting last year that it was "opening up" for new TLDs it made a public commitment that it was going to have hard time following through on.The latest announcement tries to put a data on the first round of new TLD applications - Q1 2010.That's hardly a big...
Our technical team are always working on new and cool things behind the scenes...
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The number being thrown around here is 500+ new extensions. I'd agree that it would be impractical for ALL registrars to offer ALL extensions.
However if you look at the likely breakdown of the types of new TLDs it's also apparent that a lot of the new TLDs are aimed at serving particular regional, cultural and / or ethnic markets. Most of the very big registrars won't choose to enable ALL of the extensions, but I suspect they'll go for the more "mass market" ones. This shouldn't be an issue, as the more focussed regional registrars or others will serve the smaller niches .. At least that's my current theory
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