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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

IE Domain Registry Breaks 100 Thousand

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-17T21:25:35+01:00April 17th, 2008|Categories: Domains, IEDR, Irish Blogs, News|Tags: domains, ie, registrant, registry, statistics|

Today is a historical day for the IE namespace, as it has finally breached the one hundred thousand domain barrier. ...

Comment Policy Update

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-16T01:29:32+01:00April 16th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Blogging|Tags: blogging, comments, policy|

In order to preserve our sanity I've modified the settings here so that comments will automatically close after 120 days. ...

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Don’t Be Held To Ransom!

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-16T00:55:23+01:00April 16th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, EURid, Hosting, ICANN, IEDR, Irish Blogs, Legal Issues, Nominet, Tips|Tags: domains, icann, policy, registrants, registrars, registries, resellers|

At times I feel like I'm a broken record. I keep finding myself saying the same thing to people, possibly ...

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Debian VPS Servers Now Available

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-14T17:24:14+01:00April 14th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs, News, VPS|Tags: debian, linux, open source, vps|

Paul, our overworked and under appreciated CTO (who also happens to be my business partner) has been beavering away on ...

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Teaching A Dog New Tricks

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-12T14:51:00+01:00April 12th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting|Tags: centos, debian, hosting, learning, linux, ubuntu, vps|

I've never really liked that old adage of "teaching a dog new tricks". I firmly believe that you have to ...

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VPS Hosting On Linux AND Windows Now Available

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-08T11:43:40+01:00April 8th, 2008|Categories: ASP.NET, Blacknight, Domains, Email, Hosting, Irish Blogs, Marketing, News|Tags: hosting, parallels, plesk, virtual servers, virtualisation, vps|

We have finally launched the first set of new products and services that we've been working on for months. As ...

Check Your Inbox :: Billing System Upgrade Email Being Sent Today

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-07T10:40:26+01:00April 7th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, Email, Hosting, Irish Blogs, Maintenance, News|Tags: accounts, billing, blacknight, email, hosting, upgrade|

We informed you some time ago of an upcoming upgrade to our billing / control panel system. You will probably ...

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Website Basics

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-06T18:18:31+01:00April 6th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs, Tips|Tags: basics, investment, tip, w3c, website|

This article was originally published in April 2008's edition of Computers in Business. Since I wrote it and retain the ...

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Explaining RAID Disks

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-04T15:52:15+01:00April 4th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Humour, Irish Blogs, Redundancy, Tips|Tags: disks, raid, redundancy, technical|

I hate acronyms. Of course they're impossible to avoid if you work in IT, but that doesn't mean I have ...

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Delays Are Painful

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-01T11:25:42+01:00April 1st, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs|Tags: hosting, plans, products, projects, schedule, services, timeline|

I am currently very very frustrated and annoyed. I've always tried to be honest and upfront with clients, so it ...

Verisign To Up The Price of .com

By Michele Neylon|2008-03-29T11:19:09+00:00March 29th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, Irish Blogs, Tips, Verisign|Tags: domains, pricing, registrars, registries, verisign|

Verisign, the company that manages the .com registry, will be increasing the price of .com domains by 7% again this ...

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Data Centre Porn – Well Almost!

By Michele Neylon|2008-03-28T14:50:17+00:00March 28th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs|Tags: blacknight, data centre, dell, hardware, hosting, infrastructure, network|

If data centres and secure hosting environments make you yawn then this post might be best avoided. We all know ...

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