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April 30, 2009

May Bank Holiday Opening Hours

This weekend is long weekend in Ireland and several European countries our offices will be closed on Monday 4th May 2009.

Technical support will be available via our support desk, as usual.

Sales and billing will be closed on Monday

All departments will be back at work on Tuesday morning, May 5th 2009.

Posted by Michele Neylon at 12:15 PM |

April 28, 2009

Win A Free Online Marketing Campaign

Before anyone gets crazy ideas - no this is not something we're offering ...

2Bscene are running a competition to give away two thousand euro worth of online marketing (2000 euro!!!).

Full details on Tom Doyle's blog


PS: While I don't plug clients' offers here that often do feel free to let me know if you are doing something newsworthy .. a quick email to me directly might catch my attention...

Posted by Michele Neylon at 8:13 PM | | Comments (1)

April 27, 2009

More Weird and Wonderful Domains - Jersey and Guernsey Now Available

Map of Channel Islands

Image via Wikipedia

If like me you grew up in the 1980s you probably have fond memories of John Nettles in Bergerac, which was a BBC TV show about a detective set in Jersey.

So how on earth is that relevant to domains or hosting?

Jersey and Guernsey make up the Channel Islands and have a combined population of under 160 thousand people. And both Jersey and Guernsey have their own ccTLDs, namely .je and .gg.

With the Channel Islands being home to a lot of financial services companies plus the cool domain hacks that you can create using .gg or .je, we thought that integrating with them wouldn't be a bad idea. So we did.

We're now offering both extensions via our site at the price of 45 euro / year per domain

Please bear in mind, however, that it can take several days for a .je or .gg domain to fully register.


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Posted by Michele Neylon at 3:02 PM |

April 24, 2009

Co.nl Now Available!

CONL accredited registrar
Several months ago when co.nl was in the planning stages we were asked if we would be interested in offering it to our clientele, and thus became the only accredited registrar for co.nl in Ireland.

We are now offering co.nl domain registrations via our main site.

Co.nl is an interesting alternative to .nl domains, as there are no local presence restrictions or requirements, so just about anyone can get a co.nl!

We obviously grabbed ours!

As an introductory offer we're offering them at EUR9.99.

One thing, however, as the co.nl domains have only gone "live" this week the registry operator is not allowing nameserver or contact updates until mid-June, so if you want to use external nameservers you will need to specify them during the signup.

Posted by Michele Neylon at 5:17 PM | | Comments (2)

Blackberry and iPhone Users - dotTel Apps Now Available

On days like today I wish I had a Blackberry or an iPhone...

Telnic, the guys who run dottel, have made available some new applications for users of Blackberry and iPhone.

If you have either device you can grab the software on the Telnic downloads site (mobile accessible)

I'd love to know how people get on with the software and am almost tempted to get myself an iPhone or Blackberry just to try it out ..

Posted by Michele Neylon at 3:45 PM | | Comments (5)

April 22, 2009

Tshirt Competition Now Closed

We have now closed the tshirt competition.

Although the number of entries was low at first they really picked up over the few weeks we ran it.

I'll be posting some of the other entries we received before we announce the winner

Thanks to all who took part!

Posted by Michele Neylon at 12:07 PM | | Comments (3)

April 17, 2009

Share The Knowledge!

share knowledge and help

Since we launched our VPS hosting services and revamped our shared hosting offerings we've had some very interesting feedback.

I'd love to say it was all positive, but that would be a lie.

Some people absolutely hate the new control panel.

Other people find the control panel a bit confusing at times, but once they get past the initial confusion they come to love it.

The one comment that has been made to us time and again is in relation to documentation on doing various things both on shared hosting and on VPS.

So what can we do about this?

The overly simplistic reply is "provide more documentation", but if it was that simple believe me, we'd have done it by now!

So we've decided to push out a wiki to let people share any tips and tricks that they may have.

Obviously we will have to keep an eye on what gets posted there, as it is public etc., but I am hoping that it may help people help other people.

Maybe you've got a short tip on enabling something cool and useful in Plesk or maybe you've run into some weird "gotcha".

Why not take a minute to share a few notes with other people?

What do you all think?

Good idea or terrible idea?


Posted by Michele Neylon at 11:08 AM | | Comments (3)

April 15, 2009

IIA NetVisionary 2009 Voting Now Open

Voting is now open on the 2009 IIA Net Visionary Awards.

Categories this year include:

  • Best Business Blogger
  • Best Business Podcaster
  • Best Online Financial Services
  • Best Online Trader
  • Best Use of Social Media
  • e-Government
  • Innovation
  • Internet Entrepreneur
  • Journalist
  • Mobile Internet Innovation
  • Online Tourism
  • Social Contribution
  • Web Designer Excellence
  • Web Developer Excellence

Voting is open to everyone.

Posted by Michele Neylon at 9:59 AM |

April 8, 2009

Easter Weekend Opening Hours and IE Domain Updates

colourful easter eggs

This weekend is Easter, so it's a bank holiday in a lot of countries.

Our offices will be open as normal on Good Friday, 10th April 2009, however they will be closed on Monday 13th April 2009.

Technical support will be available over the weekend and on Monday, however the number of staff manning the helpdesk will be reduced.

The IEDR are closed on both Friday and Monday, so any new IE domain registration requests, transfers or updates will not be fully processed between close of business Thursday and start of business on Tuesday morning. Our backend system is integrated with that of the IEDR, so any requests received during that timeframe will be queued as normal.

Some of the other ccTLD registries that require manual operations will also be closed over the long weekend.

We hope all our clients are able to enjoy the short break and that you don't eat too many Easter eggs! (Our staff already got theirs!)

Posted by Michele Neylon at 8:12 PM |

April 5, 2009

The Funny Side To .Tel

I "hangout" on a lot of domain related fora and blogs, so when I saw this I just had to share it with our readers (click to enlarge)

tel comic strip

Comic strip reproduced with permission from Chef Patrick

Posted by Michele Neylon at 5:08 PM |

April 3, 2009

Tshirt Competition - Some of the Entries

Over the last couple of days we've received several excellent entries for our tshirt competition.

So here are some of them below:

RedMillion provided these three entries (click to enlarge):

redmillion tshirt entry 1
red-million-blacknight2.png
red-million-blacknight3.pngJennifer from Laughing Lion provided these:
BK-SPACEINVADERS
BK-SPACEINVADERS-Tshirt.jpg
BK-CMYK.jpg
BK-CMYK-Tshirt.jpgJohn Braine came up with this one:
blacknight_t-shirt.png


We've also received a couple of entries from people who didn't include a link to their websites, so here is one we got:

T-Shirt Design.pngAnd another, this time from Aaron Quinn:
blacknight_logo entry.jpgFrom another anonymous artist came:
blacknight.jpgKeep the entries coming!

I'll post a followup once I've got JPEG or PNG versions of some of the other entries we've got











Posted by Michele Neylon at 11:56 AM | | Comments (17)

April 2, 2009

.im Domains Now Live

Manx triskelion.

Image via Wikipedia

IM - Isle of Man
Over the last few days our development team have been working away on a few cool integrations.

One of them has been "in the pipeline" for a really really long time - .im (Isle of Man)

While .im may have started life as the ccTLD for the Isle of Man it's being increasingly used by companies offering products or services centred around personal use (.im > I'm > I am) or instant messaging (IM is shorthand for instant message / instant messaging).

One of the most popular open source instant message solutions Pidgin can be found at Pidgin.im

We are now offering .im domains directly via our site using EPP.


We'll be adding more domain extensions in the coming weeks and months, so watch this space!


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