All Your Domain Are Belong to US [Podcast #20]
Brought to you by Blacknight, it’s the Technology.ie podcast episode 20, presented by Conn Ó Muíneacháin and Michele Neylon. The Blacknight CEO is off to Costa Rica to preach the gospel of social...
View ArticleQuestions For Antony Van Couvering?
With the new TLD applications list now published and the ICANN public meeting only a week away we’ll be talking to Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Top Level Domain Holdings. Antony Van Couvering is CEO of...
View ArticleLive & Let Live [Podcast #35]
Nacho Amadoz was sitting down to dinner at his home in Barcelona, when the Skype call came through from Ireland. ”This call is being recorded”, he heard them say, “you’re on the Technology.ie...
View ArticleQuestions For Crystal From DotCo?
Crystal Peterson from CoInternet This week we’ll be joined by Crystal Peterson from the .co registry. Crystal is .co’s Director of Channel Marketing and spends most of her time on the road bringing the...
View ArticleNew TLDs, Plants And Playing Cards [Podcast #40]
Pinky Brand This week Conn wasn’t able to do the show, so it’s my first solo gig. Thankfully I was joined on the show by a very gracious and understanding special guest – Pinky Brand. Sorry if the...
View ArticleXXX Rated Porn Search Engine To Launch This Week
Remember .xxx domains that launched a few months back? Well the guys behind the .xxx domain registry are launching a new search engine specifically for “developed” .xxx websites. The new search engine...
View ArticleWhat Do You Want To Know About XXX?
This week we’re delighted to have ICM Registry‘s Patrick Donaldson as our special guest. ICM are the guys behind .xxx and Patrick is their “Registrar Liaison” so he spends a lot of his time talking to...
View Article.me Domain Registry Visually Highlights Growth
The .me domain registry published an infographic earlier today which illustrates a few key points about .me domains. We spoke to Natasa from .me a few months ago (well, almost a year ago!) So what do...
View ArticlePodcast: Kevin Murphy of Domain Incite
This week we’ve got an interview with Kevin Murphy, editor of DomainIncite. Kevin has been writing about the domain name industry for several years and has been covering the newTLDs and ICANN on his...
View ArticlePodcast with Ken Hansen of .NYC
Ken Hansen of Neustar and .NYC joins Michele and Conn for this week’s podcast. With over 20 years of Internet and telecom, sales, marketing and business development experience, Ken led the business...
View ArticleCountry Codes And SEO
Google’s Matt Cutts explains the thinking behind how Google decides if a country code can be used globally or whether it’s only going to be targetted to a specific country. The basic thinking is that...
View ArticleNumber Of Domains Per 1000 Population
IEDR’s annual report is just out and this graphic caught my eye: More details on the report here. Post originally appeared on Technology.ie News & Views on Gadgets & Tech - A Podcast about...
View ArticleICANN Is Officially 15 Years Old Today
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is officially 15 years old today. Dr Steve Crocker, chairman of ICANN’s board, reflects on the organisation’s history in a couple of...
View ArticleDot Catholic – with a Large C
Emblem of the Papacy (Photo credit: Wikipedia) All domain names are case insensitive, but the newest top level domain is definitely .Catholic – with a large C! The Pontifical Council for Social...
View ArticleHammer & Tongs [Audio]
Brought to you by Blacknight – it’s the technology.ie podcast with Michele and Conn. Blacknight has got the builders in! The development of our new datacentre has provided an opportunity to re-model...
View ArticleICANN’s Dave Piscitello talks about Name Collisions [Audio]
In today’s podcast (31:52, 19MB, MP3), Conn is joined by Dave Piscitello, Vice President of Security and ICT coordination at ICANN. We talked a bit about new TLDs on yesterday’s show: about 1400 new...
View ArticleLas Vegas Domain Auctions and Ennis Mart [Audio]
© Copyright Roger Cornfoot and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence Today’s podcast was recorded in the office of CEO Michele Neylon at Blacknight HQ. He’s just returned from two...
View ArticleGreat Value on .Science Domain Names Launching Today!
Starting today at 3pm you can register a domain name in the brand new .Science domain, and to celebrate, Blacknight is offering .science domain names for the ridiculous price of €2.55! Why .Science?...
View ArticleBlacknight SME Awards: One Man and His Van [Video]
Fintan and Wendy Conlan love running their family business, ‘One Man and his Van‘. Sure, it’s hard work and stressful but “ultimately worth it”. “I would do nothing else but run my own business,...
View ArticlePodcast: Kevin Kopas of Radix Registry on Marketing New gTLDs [Audio]
The arrival of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs)is transforming the domains industry, and helping to build a new online world. But with 1200 new domain registries launching over a couple of years,...
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