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 generic Top Level Domains will be introduced as part of the current ICANN programme. This is good – but it could pose […]
Brought to you by Blacknight, it’s the Technology.ie Podcast with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. It’s our first show together since Conn joined Blacknight full time, and we talk a bit about how Technology.ie is being developed with additional content, in particular video. Michele is excited because Twitter have just announced that their advertising […]
[Editor’s note: Starting today, in addition to our usual service, technology.ie will include regular content in the Irish language. Technology supports choice and opportunity, and while the English language dominates worldwide, almost half of all web content is in a language other than English. It’s not a zero-sum game, and technologists understand better than anyone […]
It’s been years in the making, but today the companies behind 4 new generic Top Level Domains are celebrating their launch. ICANN has announced that the following four gTLDs are cleared to proceed to DNS delegation: 游戏(xn--unup4y) – Chinese for “game(s)” сайт (xn--80aswg) – Cyrillic for “site” онлайн (xn--80asehdb) – Cyrillic for “online” شبكة (xn--ngbc5azd) […]
All domain names are case insensitive, but the newest top level domain is definitely .Catholic – with a large C! The Pontifical Council for Social Communications has announced that it has received final approval from ICANN on its application to run .catholic. Of course DNS won’t care if you capitalise it, but sites with .catholic domain […]
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 videos they’ve published today. Worth taking a couple of minutes to watch: http://youtu.be/zJMqSxu1wOA and
Michele is in Washington DC this week for ICANN meetings, but he got up early this morning to Skype Conn for this week’s podcast. How the New York Times could have been better prepared for the Syrian Electronic Army DNS hack. Also, MSouden in our chat room shared an anatomy of the attack by GigaOM. […]
Join Conn & Michele for the latest Technology.ie podcast. We cast an eye on the trials of Edward Snowden. Hailo extends to Cork! Farewell to Google Reader – and goodbye Alta Vista! Michele’s on the ICANN Expert Working Group which has just published its proposals for rebooting Whois. Blacknight are sponsoring the IIA Net Visionary […]
Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast episode 64 for June 7 2013 with Michele Neylon and Conn O Muineachain. Usually we use Skype to link up to record the show – but this week we experimented with Google+ Hangouts. How did it go? Well, old friends James Larkin and Nebojsa Radovic dropped in, and we also met GadManDubs, a music producer who […]
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 development efforts that resulted in Neustar’s entry into the registry business, the award of dot-biz by ICANN and the Department of Commerce selection of Neustar […]
