Domains & Hosting: September 2007 Archives
Pretty much everyone will be accepting pre-orders for personal IE domains in advance of the October 31st "go live"
I just hope that people realise what a "landrush" type situation really involves. I'd suspect that quite a few of them don't.
In a landrush like this not everyone can be made happy. It's simply not possible.
If, like me, you have an uncommon firstname or surname (I have both!) then you should be fine, but if you have a more common combination you may run into issues.
All you have to do is pickup your local telephone directory to get an idea.
I've posted a bit about how the queues can be expected to work on our company blog.
I'd also have to remind people that if you are going to try to get yourname.ie that you choose an Irish provider with servers in Ireland.
This server is only a couple of milliseconds from INEX. Can the same be said for some of the other "irish" providers? (that small "i" is intentional!)
Anyone who recalls the "fun" of the .eu landrush and sunrises will recall that every millisecond made a difference.
It doesn't matter a damn if you market your business on bargain basement domains using bargain basement servers on the other side of the globe - when it comes down to the crunch people will want to get their IE domains from someone who has a fast, low latency connection into the registry.
I just hope that people realise what a "landrush" type situation really involves. I'd suspect that quite a few of them don't.
In a landrush like this not everyone can be made happy. It's simply not possible.
If, like me, you have an uncommon firstname or surname (I have both!) then you should be fine, but if you have a more common combination you may run into issues.
All you have to do is pickup your local telephone directory to get an idea.
I've posted a bit about how the queues can be expected to work on our company blog.
I'd also have to remind people that if you are going to try to get yourname.ie that you choose an Irish provider with servers in Ireland.
This server is only a couple of milliseconds from INEX. Can the same be said for some of the other "irish" providers? (that small "i" is intentional!)
Anyone who recalls the "fun" of the .eu landrush and sunrises will recall that every millisecond made a difference.
It doesn't matter a damn if you market your business on bargain basement domains using bargain basement servers on the other side of the globe - when it comes down to the crunch people will want to get their IE domains from someone who has a fast, low latency connection into the registry.
If you're a bit of a geek you might appreciate the photos I posted on the company blog:
Loads of boxes from Dell
More stuff from Dell
Loads of boxes from Dell
More stuff from Dell
Just a quick note to let you know that Blacknight are running a sale on .mobi domains starting today.
All new registrations will cost 10 euro per year.
All new registrations will cost 10 euro per year.
domainrenewal-online.com have been spamming and scamming domain registrants on both sides of the Atlantic over the last couple of months.
They also started targetting other languages as reported by DomainesInfo
I mentioned this scam a while ago on the company blog
If you receive one of these emails ignore it.
If you want to take action you can contact the domain registrar with whom the domain is registered OR submit it to anyone of the blacklists.
This kind of scam really disgusts me!
They also started targetting other languages as reported by DomainesInfo
I mentioned this scam a while ago on the company blog
If you receive one of these emails ignore it.
If you want to take action you can contact the domain registrar with whom the domain is registered OR submit it to anyone of the blacklists.
This kind of scam really disgusts me!
In the past few weeks I was contacted a few times by journalists regarding the Irish ISP Test
In response to several queries that we received we've rolled out a couple of new features, while earlier in the week I mentioned we were looking for feedback.
In response to several queries that we received we've rolled out a couple of new features, while earlier in the week I mentioned we were looking for feedback.
