Business: April 2006 Archives
The ICT Expo is on next Thursday and Friday in the RDS. I'll be there on the Friday for most of the day, as I am giving a talk in the afternoon on Open Source software in the enterprise.
If you're going to be around during the day let me know :)
If you want to sell to me you need to market to me effectively.
Sending me and most of my staff an email without a subject line but with a 3 megabyte attachment is not the way to do this.
So shredit.ie / dmg-services.com welcome to my killfile
So how many .eu domains are being squatted by Irish cybersquatters?
While the nationality of a cybersquatter normally wouldn't be of that much interest, the .eu cybersquatters seem to be following some interesting patterns.
The only thing is that many of them do not seem to realise how much trouble they are going to cause themselves.
The Data Retention Directive has been published in the Official Journal. (You can download a copy of the directive here in PDF format.)
This means that "the clock" has started ticking .... Over the next few months ISPs and other vested interests will be doing their utmost to make sense of the text and see what impact it will have on their business
What bothers me about all this is that there are a large number of Irish hosting "companies" who seem to think that this kind of legislation does not apply to them as they do not either own hardware or manage their network - preferring instead to use cheap servers based in the US.
Sorry boys - but the minister will probably be contacting you all about this too.
The EU registry opens to the public today at 11am CET
Whether .eu will take off or become another .info or .biz is hard to say at this juncture, but there should be plenty of "fun and games" over the next few weeks as the ADR procedures take place
I've been following the marketing antics of some of our industry competitors closely.
Some marketing ploys are quite interesting and in some cases even innovative, however there are some techniques that I find almost laughable
A particular competitor seems to be having serious issues with their maths or maybe their comprehension of the English language.. To be honest, I'm not 100% sure.
According to this particular company they have X thousand clients, however any statistics that I have seen would show that they do not have anything close to that number of clients, while they may host DNS for that number of domains.
So why are they inflating their figures?
