One of the things I've noticed is that highly intelligent people get confused by 'net concepts very easily. Although they have no difficulty in dealing with complex philosophy they seem completely baffled by the basic concepts surrounding domains and the way the 'net works (or doesn't). The other evening I was trying to explain to a client the concept of a domain alias and he … [Read more...] about Basic Concepts: Tangible vs Abstract
Domains & DNS
IIA Conference
I spent all day Monday at the IIA conference in Clontarf. Most of the bigger names were represented, including Microsoft, Macromedia and Realex, though the quality of the talks had little to do with the size of the companies involved. The IEDR gave an interesting talk on DNS and updates within the IEDR, while Realex provided some general tips on implementing credit card … [Read more...] about IIA Conference
IEDR – comreg again
Someone brought up IEDR and Comreg on the IIU list yesterday. I was chatting about this with a friend and he pointed me at Dave Wilson's very incisive posting about it: So the department of... The reality is that the cost of IE domains to resellers is not as high as some people would like to make others believe. Yes - co.uk domains cost less per unit Yes - .nl domains are cheap … [Read more...] about IEDR – comreg again