My first “real” job was in food and beverage. I worked in fairly expensive restaurants at a major European tourism destination for a number of years. One of the things that I learnt while there was that if you wanted to effectively sell food or wine you had to actually like it yourself. Sure, some […]
For the last few years I’ve done an online Christmas greeting. This year with help from Stephen we took it to a new level. You can visit my slightly over the top and intentionally tacky Christmas greeting here at Michele.Christmas. Oddly enough one of the domain bloggers picked up on the usage and wrote about […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve been invited to speak at the upcoming cPanel conference in Portland, Oregon. The conference, which takes place between October 3rd and October 5th, will cover a range of topics of interest to cPanel users and web hosting providers in general. So what will I be speaking on? My keynote is entitled: “How Can You […]
Once upon a time a domain launch was exciting (relatively speaking). One of the downsides to so many new top level domains becoming available is that the sense of excitement is pretty much gone. Sure, you can get excited about one or two domain extensions, but when there’s a new one almost every single day […]
As I mentioned recently, we’re currently hiring for a number of roles, with more in the pipeline. One of the things we’ve done a terrible job of in the past is promoting ourselves as an employer. It’s something we’ve been working on addressing (a topic I’ll return to soon I hope!) So one of the […]
I’ll keep this short and to the point .. We are currently hiring for a number of positions and we plan on advertising several more over the next couple of weeks. If you’d like to see all our current vacancies go here. So why would you want to work for us? Last year I asked […]
Later this week I’ll be “hitting the road”. It’s a very busy time of the year, with multiple international conferences being held in various parts of the world. I’ll end up being “on the road” for nearly 3 weeks, which is quite long even by my standards. While it would be impossible (and not terribly productive) […]
Earlier this week I was in Stockholm for Nordic Domain Days where I spoke about the challenges and opportunities of marketing .irish. Why’s .irish such an intriguing extension? Well the simple reason is that it “competes” almost directly with the existing country code for Ireland .ie, but has a different value proposition. Here are my […]
