Archive | November, 2011

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We’ve Moved .. And We’d Love Your Feedback

By on November 29, 2011 in Blogging

As mentioned earlier today we were moving the blog to a new server and a new backend. If you can see this post then you’re looking at the new server If you have any constructive feedback please let us know  

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We’re Moving .. .. The Blog

By on November 29, 2011 in Blogging

We’re going to be taking this blog offline for a time later this morning so that we can move it. We’ll be moving it to both a new physical location (ie. server) and to a new design and blog backend. As a result of this all comments are being disabled for the interim – you [...]

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Win A Puppy.. Or An Ipad – Save On EU Domain Registration / Transfer

By on November 28, 2011 in Competitions, Domains, eurid, Marketing, Promotions

We like bringing special offers and discounts to you, so here’s one for anyone who wants to target the European market and register (or transfer) a .eu domain name. Register a .eu domain name for 1 year at the reduced rate of only €3.99 between now and Christmas Already got a .eu domain name with [...]

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Black Friday Cloud Hosting Discount Offer

By on November 25, 2011 in Hosting, Promotions

Black Friday might have been a US “thing”, but we thought we’d join in too! We’re running a special discount offer on our new cloud hosting plans from today until Sunday night. Use the coupon code: fluffyfriday (no quotes, lowercase, no spaces)and get a 20% discount off your first order of cloud hosting. With our [...]

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No Fluff Cloud Hosting Is Here

By on November 16, 2011 in Hosting, vps

Over the last few months our technical team have been working on a number of new services. The first one to “go live” is our new cloud hosting solution – which is aimed at replacing our existing VPS services. We’ve never been into “buzzwords” and we don’t like “jumping on bandwagons”, so we’ve taken our [...]

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XXX Landrush Is Here

By on November 14, 2011 in Domains, xxx

We’ve mentioned XXX domain names in the past and we spoke to Paul Walsh from MetaCert on the Technology.ie podcast last week. We’re offering .xxx domain names as part of the registry’s “landrush”. You can order them here Press release below: For a limited time, members of the Adult “sponsored” Community may register .XXX domains [...]

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Co.uk Registry To Offer Multi-year Registrations

By on November 10, 2011 in cctlds, Domains, nominet

The co.uk country code domain currently offers a single registration period – 2 years. Starting from May of next year the registry will be offering the more “standard” registration periods of 1 to 10 years What does this mean? It means that you’ll be able to register (and renew) your *.uk domain names for up [...]

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Technical Info: Changes To Sending Email

By on November 9, 2011 in Email, Hosting

We have made some changes to our shared email services (not Hosted Exchange) that affect how people send email. You will need to enable SMTP Authentication if you aren’t using it already. There are some instructions here More info here

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RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group Presentation on Hosters vs Malware

By on November 2, 2011 in Events, Hosting, security

Yesterday afternoon I presented to the RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group at RIPE 63 in Vienna. Normally my presentations tend to run over, but yesterday, for possibly the first time ever, I “flew” through the presentation probably a bit too quickly! In any case here are the slides I used: Hosters vs. Malware: Best Practices View [...]

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