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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

EU Domain Orders / Updates Unavailable This Saturday

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-21T20:26:52+01:00May 21st, 2008|Categories: Domains, EURid|Tags: domains, eurid, maintenance|

Due to maintenance being conducted by Eurid, the organisation that manages dotEU, we will be unable to process new registrations ...

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It’s Scam Time (again!)

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-21T10:20:32+01:00May 21st, 2008|Categories: Domains, eCommerce, Email, Irish Blogs, Security, Tips|Tags: domains, email, eu business services, scams|

Every time I write one of these "heads up" posts I silently hope and pray that it will be the ...

Paypal Issues

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-20T12:37:55+01:00May 20th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, eCommerce, Maintenance|Tags: accounts, billing, issues, paypal|

We've been encountering some issues with Paypal integration with billing.blacknight.ie, so we have temporarily disabled Paypal payments. This DOES NOT ...

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DotAsia Auctions Controversy

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-20T09:47:11+01:00May 20th, 2008|Categories: Domains, dotAsia, dotTel, EURid|Tags: auctions, domains, dotasia, doteu, dottel, eurid, landrush, pool, sunrise, trademarks|

Every time a new TLD launches the registry operators have to come up with ways of distributing "premium" names. Premium ...

IE Domain Prices Slashed Again

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-13T10:53:58+01:00May 13th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, IEDR, Irish Blogs, Marketing, News|Tags: cctld, domains, ie, pricing|

As of a few minutes ago we have dropped the price of IE domains across the board. No special links ...

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IE Zone Reloads More Frequent

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-09T13:28:51+01:00May 9th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, IEDR, Irish Blogs, News, Tips|Tags: domains, ie, ireland, irish, registry, zone|

I'm delighted to announce that the IE zone rebuilds are now more frequent. The new zone rebuild times are: 10:00, ...

IIA Congress 2008

By Michele Neylon|2016-12-14T16:47:44+00:00May 9th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Events, Irish Blogs, Marketing|Tags: iia, sponsor, sponsorship|

As we mentioned previously, we are one of the sponsors of the Irish Internet Association's Congress, which takes place this ...

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Getting Your Priorities Right – Coffee

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-06T11:04:48+01:00May 6th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Irish Blogs|

Here at Blacknight we take our coffee very seriously. I recently decided that we needed to get a slightly beefier ...

Cave Art – Blacknight Style!

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-28T12:30:13+01:00April 28th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Humour, Irish Blogs, Marketing|Tags: art, blacknight, caves, prehistory|

It's amazing what designers come up with at times! Mouse over it to see what it's all about ....

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Chilled Ubuntu

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-23T15:12:39+01:00April 23rd, 2008|Categories: Blacknight|Tags: cola, fair trade, fairtrade, ubuntu|

I never thought I'd be putting Ubuntu in the office fridge, but that's exactly what I've done today. Ubuntu cola ...

Funny Penguins and Other Print Advertising

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-22T17:24:23+01:00April 22nd, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Humour, Irish Blogs, Marketing|Tags: advertising, humour, linux, open source, penguin, uk|

For the last few months we have been regular advertisers in a number of UK magazines including Linux Format. Print ...

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Free VPS Hosting Up For Grabs

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-21T15:31:45+01:00April 21st, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs, VPS|Tags: competition, vps, web2 ireland|

If you'd like to be in with a chance of getting a year's VPS hosting for free, check out the ...

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