Tomorrow morning personal IE domains will be made available for the first time. We’ve been accepting registration requests for the last few weeks, so tomorrow morning at zero hour we will be submitting the queued requests to the IE Domain Registry. If you haven’t ordered a personal IE domain then you still have time, though [...]
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Putting the accent on domains – IDN ICANN LA
One of the main theme’s at the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles, California, is IDN – internationalised domain names. IDN has been a topic of much interest, discussion and debate for the last few years as currently you cannot use non-ascii characters in domain names. While that may not be an issue for an English [...]
What’s on at ICANN LA
I’m heading off to Los Angeles in the morning to attend the ICANN meeting. I’ll try to blog a bit from there either on here or on my personal blog or my domain news blog (you’re spoilt for choice!). The meeting agenda is available online. If you’re not a big fan of TLAs (three letter [...]
Blacknight Jaiku Channel Now Available
In order to further facilitate communication between us and our clients I’ve setup a Jaiku channel. If you have a Jaiku account simply join the channel to receive updates from us, including the latest posts from this blog. If you’re already “connected” to me, then you won’t really need to this, but there’s nothing to [...]
Get Your .eu Domain For 5 euro!
We’ve dropped the price on .eu domains for the rest of this month to a mere 5 euro! You can place your order online via our website and your .eu will be up and running in minutes. We’ve been an accredited registrar for .eu domains for the last couple of months, although we hadn’t put [...]
ICANN Los Angeles
The next ICANN meeting is being held in Los Angeles, California. Although the meeting doesn’t officially start until the Monday there will be meetings and events over the weekend as well. I’ll be attending again, as there are quite a few topics of interest on the table. If you’re interested in the meeting schedule, then [...]
Domain Registrant Rights
As a domain registrant you have certain rights. Unfortunately those rights can be abused by companies that don’t believe in ethical business practices. It would be nice and simple if the whois display were the same across all TLDs (ie. domain extensions), but they’re not. A basic right is for the domain to be registered [...]
Zend Webinar – Migrating from PHP4 to PHP5
Zend just sent me an email about a webinar that might be of interest to our clients: Migrating from PHP4 to PHP5 – Presented by Ivo Jansch, CTO iBuildings This webinar is aimed at both developers and IT managers who are still using PHP4 and considering migration to PHP5. This session will address the question, [...]
Firewall Upgrade Completed Successfully
The scheduled maintenance for last night went ahead on time. According to our engineering team most people would have been affected very briefly (less than one minute). If anyone is experiencing issues please let us know ASAP. While everything has been tested thoroughly and we have not had any reports of issues to date there [...]
Scheduled Network Maintenance – Wednesday 17th of October @ 22:30 hours
When: Wednesday 17th of October @ 22:30 hours What: Firewall Upgrade. We’re moving our colocation and dedicated server customers out from behind the current HA pair of firewalls. We’ve indicated recently on our blog that we bought 4 new Cisco ASA firewalls and the time has arrived to install them. Who will be affected: Both [...]
Want to Ask A Question? Try GroupSurveys
I’ve always liked being able to support Irish companies. I don’t like supporting them for the sake of it, as that’s just plain silly. But if an Irish company offers a product or service that is excellent, then I have no qualms about recommending it to my friends and to our clients and partners. Why [...]
Pushing the move to php5
We mentioned the pending “death” of php4 some time ago. It now seems that some people have got together to help push the move to php5 forward and have set a deadline of sorts. The “go php5″ site lists software projects that support php 5.2 and greater natively ie. without “dirty hacks” or any other [...]
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