Presentation slides on "Hosting in a Global Village". Part of the "Globalisation Afternoon" held at Carlow's Institute of Technology on October 22 2013.
3. Who am I?
Michele Neylon
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Founder / CEO Blacknight
http://mneylon.tel
@mneylon
http://michele.me/blog
http://b.log.ie
Winner IIA Net Visionary 2013
On most other social networks ..
13. Copyright Issues?
• Simply put don’t register a domain with a
trademark term
• Just because bigbrand.tld is available doesn’t
mean you can register / use it
• Companies will protect their IP rights
16. IDNs
• Know your target audience
• English native speakers can’t type accents
• First 4 new TLDs are ALL IDNs
– 游戏 (xn--unup4y) – Chinese for “Game”
– сайт (xn--80aswg) – Russian for “Web site”
– онлайн (xn--80asehdb) – Russian for “Online”
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Arabic for internet
17. Control
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Who is the domain registered to?
Who gets the renewal notices??
Whois Privacy?
Is the domain extension “safe” / “stable”?
(think .ly .. )