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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

Registering YourName.ie – Who Is Eligible Before October 31?

By Michele Neylon|2007-09-18T08:12:13+01:00September 18th, 2007|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, IEDR, Irish Blogs, Tips|Tags: cctlds, domains, ie|

There's been quite a bit of media coverage in the last few days about the upcoming relaxation of IEDR rules ...

Quick Clarification On Comment Delays

By Michele Neylon|2007-09-17T19:36:53+01:00September 17th, 2007|Categories: Blacknight, Blogging|Tags: blogging, comments, trackbacks|

Just a quick note to people posting comments. Since we moderate all comments (it's a business blog, so I really ...

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Mobile Monday 24th September – Sponsored By Blacknight

By Michele Neylon|2007-09-17T15:33:39+01:00September 17th, 2007|Categories: Blacknight, Events, Irish Blogs, Marketing, News, Press Releases|

If you'd like to find out what people are getting upto in the wonderful world of mobile devices and the ...

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IEDR Issues Alert on Domain Scammers

By Michele Neylon|2007-09-17T11:58:19+01:00September 17th, 2007|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, IEDR, Irish Blogs, News, Security|Tags: domains, ie, scam|

Just got this email from the IEDR: It has once again come to the attention of the IEDR that a ...

New Cisco Firewalls

By Michele Neylon|2007-09-17T10:33:29+01:00September 17th, 2007|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs, Network, Redundancy, Security|Tags: firewalls, network, redundancy|

Following on from last Tuesday's incident we are following through on our promises. Our technical team had been discussing the ...

Unscheduled Network Outage – Sunday 16th 18:40 – 19:05

By Michele Neylon|2007-09-17T10:03:24+01:00September 17th, 2007|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs, Network, Redundancy|Tags: flapping, network, ospf, routers|

Summary: An internal routing issue developed in our network between our edge routers and our core distribution routers. Diagnosis and ...

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Domain Pricing – Heads Up

By Michele Neylon|2007-09-15T10:06:25+01:00September 15th, 2007|Categories: Afilias, Blacknight, Domains, dotMobi, ICANN, Irish Blogs, Tips, Verisign|

In case you haven't heard the cost of .com/.net/.info/.biz domains will be going up later this year. I got an ...

Dell Kit – Second Load

By Michele Neylon|2007-09-13T18:39:23+01:00September 13th, 2007|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs|Tags: blacknight, cabinets, dell, equipment, servers|

We took delivery of a second load of Dell kit later this afternoon. Since we had so many Dell servers ...

Dell Delivery – Lots of Boxes!

By Michele Neylon|2007-09-13T14:13:38+01:00September 13th, 2007|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs, News|Tags: boxes, dell, servers|

One of things that I have a love / hate relationship are servers. For the MD of a hosting company ...

Incident Report – Tuesday September 11 2007

By Michele Neylon|2007-09-12T19:29:43+01:00September 12th, 2007|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs, Network, Programming, Redundancy, Security|Tags: firewalls, hacking, high availability, latency, network, redundancy|

Yesterday at lunchtime there were some issues on our network. I'll try to explain what happened in simple terms and ...

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Personal IE Domains Go Live End October 2007

By Michele Neylon|2007-09-12T12:40:02+01:00September 12th, 2007|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, IEDR, Irish Blogs, Marketing, News, Tips|

The IE Domain Registry have finally released details of the policy change on personal domains which I've mentioned in the ...

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Server Issues – Morgana

By Michele Neylon|2007-09-11T22:16:00+01:00September 11th, 2007|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Network|

The shared server "morgana" has been having intermittent issues for most of today. Our engineering team are working on a ...

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