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About Michele Neylon

Known for his outspoken opinions on technology and the Internet, Michele Neylon is the award winning author of several blogs and co-host of the Technology.ie podcast. A thought leader in the Internet community, Neylon is active within ICANN and an expert on policy, security, domains, ICANN, Nominet and Internet Governance. You can stalk him on various social media networks including Twitter and Instagram

Talking IDNs, ccTLDs and ICANN in Vegas

Talking IDNs, ccTLDs and ICANN in Vegas

By Michele Neylon|2014-01-07T12:25:51+00:00January 7th, 2014|Categories: Domains, Events|Tags: blacknight, Country code top-level domain, Domain name, Generic top-level domain, icann, IDN, Internationalized domain name, Jothan Frakes, Las Vegas, Michele Neylon, Top-level domain|

Later this week I'll be heading off to Las Vegas for the first event of 2014 - NamesCon. It's the ...

Adopt Social and Win Sales

Adopt Social and Win Sales

By Michele Neylon|2014-01-23T07:53:38+00:00January 2nd, 2014|Categories: Press Releases, Social Media|Tags: blacknight, business, Carlow, customer service, european union, facebook, featured, ireland, sales, Social media|

Social media. It's probably one of the biggest buzzwords of the last few years. We believe in "social". It works. ...

Helping Startups Party Like It’s 1999

Helping Startups Party Like It’s 1999

By Michele Neylon|2016-08-24T11:33:22+01:00December 17th, 2013|Categories: Events, Marketing|Tags: blacknight, christmas, dublin, ireland, party, sponsor, startups|

In the run-up to Christmas most of us go to parties and gatherings of some kind. We had our company ...

IT Professional? You Might Want To Read This

IT Professional? You Might Want To Read This

By Michele Neylon|2018-07-13T09:26:38+01:00December 11th, 2013|Categories: Security, Tips|Tags: dns, Domain name, Domain Name System, featured, icann, Top-level domain|

Once upon a time, not so long ago, there were only about 20 generic top level domain extensions (the bit ...

Promote Your Online Business This Christmas

Promote Your Online Business This Christmas

By Michele Neylon|2013-12-07T16:22:01+00:00December 7th, 2013|Categories: Business, Marketing|Tags: business, christmas, Christmas and holiday season, Online shopping, Small business|

Christmas is one of the busiest, if not the busiest, times of the year for online shopping. With so many ...

Early Closing Friday December 13

Early Closing Friday December 13

By Michele Neylon|2013-12-06T15:40:36+00:00December 6th, 2013|Categories: Blacknight|Tags: christmas, holiday, Santa Claus, Saturday, shopping, Telephone line|

Next Friday is our staff Christmas party. We'll all go out eat too much, have a couple of drinks (or ...

Irish Electrical Supply Company (ESB) Strike Action

Irish Electrical Supply Company (ESB) Strike Action

By Michele Neylon|2018-07-13T14:13:04+01:00December 2nd, 2013|Categories: Hosting, Redundancy|Tags: Data center, dublin, ESB, ESB Group, ESB Group of Unions, Power outage, Strike action|

Hosting requires a lot of electricity. So when there's any potential threat to the power supply it can have an ...

Getting Fruity

Getting Fruity

By Michele Neylon|2013-11-29T17:54:34+00:00November 29th, 2013|Categories: Business|Tags: blacknight, business, food, Food and Related Products, Fruit, ireland, Irish people, Produce|

Over the past few months we've been making changes and improvements to our offices here in Blacknight. Our staff are ...

Coming Soon – Shorter UK Domain Names

Coming Soon – Shorter UK Domain Names

By Michele Neylon|2013-11-29T15:37:37+00:00November 29th, 2013|Categories: Domains, Nominet|Tags: Business and Economy, Computers and Internet, Domain name, Domain name registry, nominet, Nominet UK|

If you're operating in or marketing your products or services in the UK market then you've probably already registered a ...

Working Towards Patient Health & Safety Online

Working Towards Patient Health & Safety Online

By Michele Neylon|2013-11-13T15:55:52+00:00November 13th, 2013|Categories: General|Tags: business, drugs, dublin, Health, medicines, pharma|

Earlier this week the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy met in Dublin at Google's EMEA HQ. I've been involved with ...

Upcoming Changes to IE (Irish) Domain Name Expiry Suspension & Deletion

Upcoming Changes to IE (Irish) Domain Name Expiry Suspension & Deletion

By Michele Neylon|2013-11-11T15:40:58+00:00November 11th, 2013|Categories: ccTLDs, Domains, IEDR|Tags: .ie domains, cctld, cctlds, Domain name, Domain name registrar, domains ireland, ie, irish, irish domains, Suspension|

In a couple of weeks' time the IEDR will be rolling out some changes to their technical systems. While most ...

Marketing New Domains Without Breaking the Bank

Marketing New Domains Without Breaking the Bank

By Michele Neylon|2018-12-06T09:09:38+00:00October 29th, 2013|Categories: Domains, ICANN, Marketing, New TLDs|Tags: Bulgaria, Domain name, Domain name registry, Generic top-level domain, icann, Public Interest Registry, Sofia, Top-level domain|

I've talked about marketing and selling new domains several times in the past. It's one of my "pet" topics. Why? ...

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