ICANN 53 is drawing to a close in Buenos Aires, and delegates are looking ahead to ICANN 54, which will be held in Ireland for the first time, hosted in Dublin by peering exchange INEX. INEX CEO Barry Rhodes will address the public forum at 2pm local time, and he’ll be joined on stage by the Irish ambassador […]
The Land Rush Phase of the new Dot-Irish domain Extension will draw to a close tomorrow, Saturday 20 June at 5pm Irish time. Until then, if you’ve got your eye on a prime domain name, you’re still in with a chance of getting it if you get your application in. Land Rush applications are being taken over at Blacknight.irish, […]
Technology.ie has got twenty tickets to give away to DomainFest Bulgaria next week. It’s just one of the events which form part of Bulgarian Internet Week, in a country which ranks second in the world for Internet use (average: 16 hours per person per week). DomainFest Bulgaria is brought to you by the people behind NamesCon– the […]
The inaugural Blacknight SME Awards was held last night at the Radisson Hotel in Cork, and the Grand Prix went to LearnUpon, a learning management system provider, which is growing internationally and exporting its services around the globe. As well as the Grand Prix, LearnUpon also won awards in the ‘Customer Focus’ and ‘B2B Export […]
Today’s podcast was recorded in the office of CEO Michele Neylon at Blacknight HQ. He’s just returned from two weeks in Las Vegas where he attended CES, followed by Namescon. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 23:31; 13MB; MP3. CES was simply huge, says Michele. One thing that caught […]
Jothan Frakes joins Blacknight’s Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin on today’s podcast to talk about NamesCon, the domain names conference in Las Vegas from January 11 to 14. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 36:39; 22MB; MP3. A veteran of the domains industry, Jothan is co-organiser of Namescon, now in […]
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It’s Net Visionary time again! The Irish Internet Association‘s annual awards event is on tonight at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. This year’s MC is Brian Colhoun: he’s got a unique approach to dealing with speaker anxiety! http://youtu.be/5G4yamAyp6Q I’m looking forward to the night; Joan Mulvihill and the IIA always put on a good show, and I’ll […]
Steve Del Bianco is the guest on today’s podcast (42:16; 24MB; MP3). He’s the executive director of NetChoice, “a trade association of eCommerce businesses and online consumers all of whom share the goal of promoting convenience, choice, and commerce on the net”. Steve is based in Washington DC, where he lobbies on internet issues, but the latest issue he’s focused on is playing […]
We mentioned Christian Dawson on last week’s podcast, and we’ve interviewed him in a previous episode. He’s chairman and co-founder of i2Coalition, the Internet Infrastructure Coalition. i2Coalition is an industry organisation representing businesses that provide the “nuts and bolts” of the Internet. It includes major players in the hosting networking and hardware industries, such as Rackspace, Dell, Google […]
Michele Neylon reports that the venue for ICANN’s 54th public meeting, to be held in October 2015, will be Dublin. The event will be hosted by INEX, Ireland’s Internet Neutral Exchange. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is a global, non-profit organisation which oversees the coordination of internet identifiers such as IP addresses and […]
