Anthony Van Couvering posts an interesting article examining the DomainsBot study on the parts of speech found in 4304 domains sold on Afternic. … [Read more...] about Applying Linguistics to Domains
Domains & DNS
IE Pricing 2006 Revisited
An industry colleague pointed out a rather intriguing thread on boards.ie to me where one of our competitors service and pricing is criticised. When the competitor in question replied with the following I nearly fell of my chair: The Irish Domain Registry has made some changes to its price structure earlier this month in response to public pressure from our company. We will … [Read more...] about IE Pricing 2006 Revisited
Phishing Side-effects
Bret Fausett posts a very enlightening and scary tale about a domain suspension caused by phishers abusing a host which led to the suspension of their domain (including their nameservers) … [Read more...] about Phishing Side-effects
Comreg and the IEDR
The consultation period for the Electronic Communications Miscellaneous Provisions Bill (MS Word Doc) is currently open. One of the areas that the bill mentions is the IE domain registry: Head 12 - Regulation of the Internet .ie Domain Name by ComReg 12.1 ComReg may by Regulation provide for: • the transfer of powers, in relation to the regulation of the .ie … [Read more...] about Comreg and the IEDR
Improve Email Delivery Rate To Hotmail
In a perfect world everybody would have their own domain name and hosting account (with us of course :) ), but the reality is that for many people free email services like the one provided by Microsoft's Hotmail service are here to stay. … [Read more...] about Improve Email Delivery Rate To Hotmail