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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 BlueSky, Mastodon, Twitter and Instagram

Press Release: Blacknight Announce Sponsorship of IIA Annual Conference 2012

Press Release: Blacknight Announce Sponsorship of IIA Annual Conference 2012

By Michele Neylon|2012-05-01T10:41:11+01:00May 1st, 2012|Categories: Business, Events, Marketing, Press Releases|Tags: Aviva Stadium, blacknight, BRICS, irish internet association|

Carlow, May 1st 2012 Blacknight announce sponsorship of the Irish Internet Association Annual Conference 2012 “Building BRICS”. The conference, which ...

New IE Domain Promotional Graphics – What Do You Think?

New IE Domain Promotional Graphics – What Do You Think?

By Michele Neylon|2012-04-27T12:32:52+01:00April 27th, 2012|Categories: Domains, Marketing|Tags: Business and Economy, Computers and Internet, Domain name, IE Domain Registry|

IEDR have made available a number of graphics to promote .ie domain names. Here they are: What do you ...

Paypal Users – Check Your Code!

Paypal Users – Check Your Code!

By Michele Neylon|2012-04-18T10:59:13+01:00April 18th, 2012|Categories: eCommerce|Tags: CGI, e-commerce, ecommerce, Instant Payment Notification, Landing page, paypal, paypal.com, programming|

Paypal are making some subtle, yet important, changes in how they handle redirects and landing pages for their ...

Blacknight Announce Available Positions In Carlow Office

Blacknight Announce Available Positions In Carlow Office

By Michele Neylon|2012-04-16T12:13:00+01:00April 16th, 2012|Categories: Careers, News, Press Releases|Tags: blacknight, Company, employment, jobs, linux, Software engineer, Systems engineering, unix, vacancies|

Our latest press release went out this morning. Full text below: Blacknight Announce Available Positions In Carlow Office Irish ...

Even Dragons Like Social Media

Even Dragons Like Social Media

By Michele Neylon|2012-04-06T11:49:31+01:00April 6th, 2012|Categories: Events, Marketing, Social Media|Tags: business, facebook, Mulley Communications, Online Communities, Public relations, Social media, Social Media Award, Twitter|

The Social Media Awards are in their second year (run by Mulley Communications). Last night the entries list was published ...

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Save Money Buy More Easter Eggs!

Save Money Buy More Easter Eggs!

By Michele Neylon|2012-04-05T11:43:26+01:00April 5th, 2012|Categories: Promotions|Tags: blacknight, chocolate, Cooking, easter, Easter Bunny, Easter egg, holidays|

This weekend is Easter, which is a wonderful excuse for people to gorge themselves on chocolate eggs and other tasty ...

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Remember Low Resolution Graphics?

Remember Low Resolution Graphics?

By Michele Neylon|2012-04-01T14:14:34+01:00April 1st, 2012|Categories: General|Tags: April Fools Day, design, google, Google Maps, mobile, Quest, Search Engine Watch, Twitter|

Today is April Fool's Day, so a lot of people and companies are playing silly tricks on people. Google Maps ...

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Register Or Renew A UK Domain And Maybe Win An IPad

By Michele Neylon|2012-03-29T14:31:36+01:00March 29th, 2012|Categories: Competitions, Domains, Nominet|Tags: Country code top-level domain, Domain name, Domain name registry, IPad, nominet, Nominet UK|

Everyone loves iPads. You'd probably be lying if you said otherwise! So here's a really nice promotion from our friends ...

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Wanted : Software Engineers / Developers

Wanted : Software Engineers / Developers

By Michele Neylon|2012-03-28T22:12:09+01:00March 28th, 2012|Categories: General|Tags: blacknight, icann, Software Development|

We're hiring again! This time round we're hiring for a number of software engineer roles in our development team. If ...

Social Media Awards 2012 Nominations Close Friday

Social Media Awards 2012 Nominations Close Friday

By Michele Neylon|2012-03-25T17:41:15+01:00March 25th, 2012|Categories: Events|Tags: awards, business, dublin, Internet marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Social media, Twitter|

If your business is using social media then you might want to consider entering it for the 2012 Social Media ...

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ICANN Costa Rica – What Will Be Going On?

ICANN Costa Rica – What Will Be Going On?

By Michele Neylon|2012-03-08T21:18:30+00:00March 8th, 2012|Categories: Domains, Events, ICANN, New TLDs, Policy|Tags: Caribbean, Costa Rica, Domain name, Domain Name System Security Extensions, icann, Top-level domain|

ICANN 43 is taking place next week in Costa Rica and we'll be there. Due to miscalculations on my side ...

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Speak Your Mind On Copyright

Speak Your Mind On Copyright

By Michele Neylon|2012-03-05T15:07:33+00:00March 5th, 2012|Categories: Legal Issues, Policy|Tags: copyright, digital rights, facebook, Government of Ireland, Internet service provider, ireland, irma, Sherlock, SOPA, Twitter|

We've written about copyright, digital rights and our views on the entire thing several times over the past few months. ...

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