iia: April 2007 Archives

As promised here are the slides from the talk I gave this afternoon in Mullingar. IIA Blogging Presentation

I know I should have mentioned this earlier, but I've been rather busy with other things recently.... In any case I'll be in Mullingar tomorrow for an IIA event: Using the Internet and Blogging to Increase Sales, which is being held in conjunction with Westmeath County Enterprise Board My talk will be on blogging in general, which is incredibly vague :) Basically I'll be looking at covering basic topics through to the more advanced ones in about 30 minutes (my allotted time slot!).

The Irish Internet Association's website has been offline for most of today. Why? Well put simply the domain has vanished from DNS, so it's impossible for anyone to reach it. The domain is held by Esat's nameservers, but at some point in the last 24 hours someone removed it completely from their nameservers and as the IEDR's offices are closed today there is no way to move the domain to another set of nameservers even as an interim measure (ie. there are no reloads or changes to the .ie zonefile today) I spoke to the IIA's CEO Fergal O'Byrne a short time ago and he explained what had happened. It transpires that the IIA have a free account with Esat, but that their billing department seems to have raised an invoice 4 years ago for services. Although the invoice was flagged as free and to be removed it obviously wasn't ... End result being the site is offline due to a billing error. I'm sure Fergal is very impressed!

I've been invited to blog on the Irish Internet Association blog over the next couple of weeks. I promised to avoid anything too controversial and will probably touch on a number of "hot" topics, but what would other people like to see there?