The guys over at the .blog domain name registry have been doing a series of short posts to highlight or showcase "dotbloggers". My switch over to michele.blog as my main domain for my rather random blog posts was recently featured by them.You can read their post here.I made the move over to michele.blog early in January of this year, as I outlined here. Don and Paolo … [Read more...] about Michele.blog Featured by DotBlog Domain Registry
Domains & DNS
Switching Over to Michele.blog
As of today this blog has a new web address: michele.blogI'm delighted to have been able to get this domain and excited to be switching over to it.For the past 13+ years I've been blogging under /blog on a number of different domains. I started out with mneylon.com, but several years ago I upgraded to michele.me. However I still kept the old web structure, so apart from … [Read more...] about Switching Over to Michele.blog
Greening The Web On St Patrick’s Day
Today is St Patrick's Day and I'm in Austin, Texas for SXSW. Walking around the downtown area earlier today every 2nd person is making an effort to wear some green.But what about online?The guys over at .irish are running a campaign centred around turning the web green for Paddy's Day. You can do your bit by switching over your profile pic on both Facebook and Twitter … [Read more...] about Greening The Web On St Patrick’s Day
A Very Practical Marketing Gizmo
When I first started attending conferences I used to pickup a lot of marketing "tat" from the various vendors exhibiting. Over time you realise that you really don't need to have most of this junk in your life. I really don't need 20 backpacks, 15 water bottles, 500 pens or 100 notebooks. So these days if I do bother bringing back any of the "freebies' I restrict it to things … [Read more...] about A Very Practical Marketing Gizmo
Registering Premium .Irish Domains Is Now Easy
With the launch of new TLDs a lot of the domain registries introduced quite complex pricing models. You had a "standard' registration fee, but you also had a lot of different ways of handling "premium" domain names.Unfortunately getting those "weird" prices to "play nice" with our billing system was far from easy, as the system essentially sees a domain extension as being a … [Read more...] about Registering Premium .Irish Domains Is Now Easy