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Today’s podcast is the first in a series of conversations recorded at Congregation 2018, which was held last month in Cong, Co Mayo. It was the sixth year of this unique unconference event, and the theme this year was ‘Ideas’. Blacknight is a sponsor of Congregation. As the crowd gathered around the cross on Main […]
Ray King is our guest on today’s podcast. He’s the CEO of Top Level Design, the company behind the .DESIGN, .INK and .WIKI domain registries. They’ve put out a report about how some big brands are using dot-design domain names, and Ray joined me on Skype to talk about it. Click on the player below to […]
From Belfast comes the news that WordCamp has sold out*! As a sponsors, we’re delighted, and we’re looking forward to taking part in the event over the weekend. (*There is a handful of places still available at the free Contributor Event on Friday afternoon). As Abha Thakor explained in our podcast earlier this week, WordCamp […]
WordCamp Belfast is on next weekend and Blacknight is a sponsor – so I’ve Skyped with three of the organisers to find out what’s in store. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 20:22; 12MB; MP3. Brendan Mulvaney is an IT consultant and tech blogger. He got involved at […]
Tech Talk is a collaboration between Blacknight and KCLR 96FM radio. Every two weeks we join Ken McGuire on KCLR Drive for a chat about technology news. You can hear it live on the air, and it’s also a podcast. We include it here also in the Blacknight Podcast feed. Click on the player below to […]
Dietmar Stefitz is our guest on the Blacknight Podcast today. He’s the organiser of Domaining Europe – now known as NamesCon Europe following its takeover earlier this month. Blacknight is a sponsor of the event. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 12:59; 7MB; MP3. A native of Austria, […]
It’s been a busy day here at Blacknight, thanks to the relaxation of the rules for registering .IE domain names, which came into effect today, and the irresistible value of Blacknight’s €4.99 .IE offer. I dropped into the Carlow office of Michele Neylon, Blacknight’s CEO, to get his thoughts on the day’s events. Click on […]
We’ve been doing podcasts on the Blacknight Blog for about 6 months now. The Blacknight Podcast started off slowly and tentatively, but we think we like it, so we’re going to keep doing it! 🙂 Now we’ve gone all in and published the subscription feed (in RSS format), and got ourselves listed on Apple podcasts as well. What’s it about? Well, we’re […]
Our guest on today’s podcast is Josu Walino, CEO of the .EUS domain registry. .EUS is the top-level domain (TLD) for the Basque (Euskara) Community, the unique linguistic and cultural community which is found in a region of Northern Spain and Southern France. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it […]
This week’s Blacknight Podcast is all about WordCamp Dublin which is on this weekend in DCU Business School. Blacknight is a sponsor, so we invited three of the organisers to join us on the show. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 20:02; 12MB; MP3. Our guests are Colm Troy, […]
As the programme for the Blacknight-sponsored IndieCork Film Festival 2017 goes to print, we reveal some of the highlights of next month’s festival, in a podcast interview with Úna Feely of the organising committee. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 11:56; 7MB; MP3. “It’s very much a festival about […]
Tickets for the 2017 Dot IE Net Visionary Awards are selling fast, and a capacity crowd is anticipated for the popular internet industry event at the RDS on 15 September. That’s according to Cathy McGovern of Inspiration Marketing, who is the current chair of the Irish Internet Association which hosts the awards, and our guest […]