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The Clock Is Ticking .. DotBlog Goes Live Tomorrow!

20th November 2016 by Michele Leave a Comment

Tomorrow afternoon at 1500 UTC, which also happens to be 1500 here in Ireland, .blog will finally go into "general availability". In other words, anyone who wants to register a .blog domain name will be able to do so without any restrictions. Sure, the registry has got a bunch of "premium" names and there's also some names that are "registry reserved", but neither list is … [Read more...] about The Clock Is Ticking .. DotBlog Goes Live Tomorrow!

The Domain For Blogging Addicts Is Launching

13th November 2016 by Michele 1 Comment

I've been blogging on and off for years. Some of my friends like to wind me up about the volume of blogging that I do, but I won't apologise for it. I am a blog addict and that is just part of my being! So when I heard about the .blog domain extension I was naturally interested. Time went by and ICANN took their time processing all the applications. I waited and waited and … [Read more...] about The Domain For Blogging Addicts Is Launching

Yet Another Blog? Maybe, Maybe Not

27th September 2015 by Michele 4 Comments

One of the headshots that Michelle Chaplow took for me in Cartagena

I've been blogging on and off for the last 12 years. When I first started out it was purely personal and was a "writing exercise". Over time I started writing more and more about industry and the business. Eventually I thought it was appropriate to setup an actual blog for the company. Nowadays an ever growing number of our staff contribute on both the main blog, our technical … [Read more...] about Yet Another Blog? Maybe, Maybe Not

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