In a rare occurrance yesterday Michele Neylon, Managing Director of Blacknight, put on a suit. It wasn’t however for a funeral as one might expect when you’re dealing with Michele and suits. It was hopefully for the birth of something great. It was of course if you’ve been following any of our recent blog posts [...]
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Making The Most Of IIA Membership
The following is a guest post from the Irish Internet Association’s (IIA) CEO Joan Mulvihill. We’ll be speaking to Joan later this week on the Technology.ie podcast as well. I was a member of a gym for years and I used to go around four times a week…low and behold, I got to know the [...]
Net Visionary 2011 Nominations Open
The Irish Internet Association (IIA) annual awards nominations are now open. Full details here The categories have changed again slightly this year and are now: Social Contribution Best Rookie Best Cloud Service Best Breakthrough Brick to Click Best in Digital Marketing Best Open Data Initiative Best Web Developer Best Web Design Internet Start-up Best Mobile [...]

Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards – Nominations Open
Nominations are now open for the 2010 IIA NetVisionary Awards. Unlike a LOT of awards the NetVisionary Awards are NOT “pay to play”. Anyone can nominate anybody they think is deserving and then the public ultimately decides. Categories available include: Best Business BloggerBest Business PodcasterBest Online Financial ServiceBest Online TraderBest Use of Social Mediae-Government AwardInnovation [...]
IIA Protecting Your Brand Slides
As some people were asking I’m making available the slides from the session this afternoon on online brand protection. As you can see my slides aren’t particularly long or detailed, but hopefully people will get some idea of what I was talking about Questions / comments welcome as always. domains-iia-blacknight-2009.ppt Related articles by Zemanta Protect [...]
Protect Your Brand Globally – IIA Congress 2009
As part of the IIA Congress this week I’ll be involved in one of the afternoon “breakout” sessions: Protect Your Brand GloballyThe session, which is sponsored by Eurid, will involve registry operators (Eurid), registrars (Blacknight) and the legal profession (Matheson Ormsby Prentice). What will we be talking about? In broad terms it’s all about domains, [...]
Final Call For Irish Net Visionary Award Nominations
Nominations close today for the 2009 Irish Internet Association Net Visionary awards If you think someone is worthy then get nominating now!

IIA NetVisionary Awards 2009
The Irish Internet Association’s annual awards are being held in May this year, instead of their usual October / November timeslot. They’re being held to coincide with the annual conference. More details on their site
A Bit Of Local Press Coverage
Since our offices are based in Carlow getting some coverage in the local media was bound to happen at some point. This week’s Carlow Nationalist has a short piece on the Net Visionaries (click to enlarge): Of course they spelt my name incorrectly, ,but we’ll forgive them for that
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Net Visionary Awards Tomorrow Night!
Tomorrow evening a lot of people will be heading to the IIA Net Visionary Awards in The Royal Hospital Kilmainham. I’m attending courtesy of Realex Payments, who are one of the event sponsors and our credit card processor I wasn’t at last year’s event, but I really enjoyed the evening other years. While it is [...]
IIA Net Visionary Awards 2008 Vote Now!
If you haven’t voted yet head over to the Net Visionary website now to do so Voting closes tomorrow. While I’d obviously prefer if everyone voted for me I’d be happy if everyone actually took the time to vote for whoever they wanted ie. participated

IIA Net Visionary Awards 2008 Shortlist Announced
I seem to be spending a lot of time talking about awards of late, but it’s that time of the year I guess …. In any case the IIA Net Visionary Awards shortlist has been announced … I’ve been shortlisted under 3 categories: Best business blog (for this one) Internet Entrepreneur Internet Marketer It’s nice [...]
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