Michele Neylon

Country:	Ireland
Email:	michele [at] blacknight.com
Website:	[michele.me michele.me]
Facebook:	[mneylon Michele Neylon]
LinkedIn:	[mneylon Michele Neylon]
Twitter:	@mneylon
Currently a member of ICANN's RrSG Featured in the ICANN 45 - Toronto playing card deck

Michele Neylon is founder and managing director of Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, an Irish domain registrar and hosting company. He also is a domainer, running sites like Films.ie, Wallpapers.ie, Search.ie in his free time.

Mr. Neylon actively participates in the Internet and ICT industry in Ireland as well as being involved in a number of open source projects. He is involved in the Irish Internet Association, and represents the association on the Irish Enum Policy Advisory Board. Neylon is also active within the ISP Association of Ireland, and has sat on the Registrar Board of the .eu registry, EURid, since March 2010.

Michele Neylon is involved with various other ICANN and GNSO groups, such as being a voting member of the Registrars Stakeholder Group within the GNSO. In February 2013, Mr. Neylon was chosen to serve on the Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services, applications were submitted voluntarily, and then narrowed down from over 70 to just over a dozen. The EWG is to report to the board, with a mandate to "1) define the purpose of collecting and maintaining gTLD registration data, and consider how to safeguard the data, and 2) provide a proposed model for managing gTLD directory services that addresses related data accuracy and access issues, while taking into account safeguards for protecting data."

Mr. Neylon's blog has garnered him attention and awards from the IIA, and his blogs have been picked up as syndicated articles by various news sources. He has also published regular columns for both print and electronic sources.

Michele Neylon speaks four languages and is a film buff.

Education

• University College Cork Msc., Multimedia Technology 2001.
• University of Limerick B.A. (Hons), European Studies 1994-1998.
• Midleton College Leaving Cert., 1985-1991.

Career History

• Founded Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd. in 2000.
• EFL Instructor at Caledonian Communications from July 2002 — August 2003.
• Taught at Cork Language Centre from 1998 — 2001.

Awards

Michele has frequently been considered for awards from the Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards. In 2005 & 2006 he was shortlisted in the Internet Entrepreneur category, and was also shortlisted for Best Blogger in 2006. In 2008, he was shortlisted for, and won, IIA Net Visionary Awards for Best Blogger and Internet Marketer; that year he was also shortlisted for Internet Entrepreneur. He won the IIA Net Visionary Award for Best Use of Social Media in 2010.

He was awarded the Best Business Blog in 2009 by The Irish Blog Awards.

Overall IIA Net Visionary 2013

Publications

Blogs posted on his site and on ISquattedYour.eu have been syndicated on sites such as CircleID and Domain Name News. PC Live published a monthly column by Neylon until July 2008, and he wrote regular column for the ICT supplement of the Sunday Business Post throughout 2008.

CircleID recognized Michele Neylon for writing one of the top 10 most read news articles or blogs on their site in 2010. His blog post, "XXX Continues", placed 6th with 11,073 views.

Mr. Neylon regularly writes in response to ICANN decisions and meetings.

Videos

Michele is interviewed at ICANN 44 in Prague:

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Gray Chynoweth interviews Michele at ICANN 41 in Singapore about the possibility of new TLDs.:

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Ray King interviewed Michele at ICANN 50 in London about Internet Governance and the IANA Transition:

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