Weathering the Storm in Carlow [Audio]
On Wednesday of last week, 12 February, a ferocious storm tore across Ireland, felling trees, damaging buildings and leaving 200,000 people without power. Backup systems kicked in seamlessly in the Blacknight data centre, so staff had
US Hosting Company Bows to Legal Threats from Rehab CEO
Update: The original version of this article identified the web host as Limelight Networks. However, their Chief Marketing Officer points out in a comment that Limelight sold its Web Content Management System to Upland Software in
Fwiday Febwuawy Fouwteenth [Audio]
Michele and Conn get together on Skype for a podcast (22:55, 13MB, MP3). Michele's umbrella was an early casualty of Wednesday's storm, but it also provided the first real-world use of the failover systems in Blacknight's new data
Introducing .CO.COM
Ken Hansen is CEO of Co.com, a new Second Level Domain Registry with an interesting proposition. As Ken explains it, there are many businesses which missed out on the first wave of .com domains, yet still
The Day We Fight Back in Galway
Tomorrow is billed as 'The Day We Fight Back', against online surveilance. Michele has blogged about it earlier. It's something we support here at Technology.ie because we believe that the erosion of trust caused by unchecked surveillance
ICANN says Screw EU to European Domain Registrars
Over on the Blacknight blog, Michele Neylon has smoke coming out of his ears. Here's a picture: He's upset because he wants to sell the shiny new generic top level domains (gTLDs) that are coming on
