Years ago I thought I'd grab a domain name with an accent and so I registered a .eu domain name. That was nearly 11 years ago! Since then a lot of things have changed, but unfortunately a lot of things haven't changed as well. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Back then you couldn't register a .ie domain name with a fada (accent). So if you wanted to register … [Read more...] about Trying Domains With Accents Again (IDN Domains)
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Michele.blog Featured by DotBlog Domain Registry
The guys over at the .blog domain name registry have been doing a series of short posts to highlight or showcase "dotbloggers". My switch over to michele.blog as my main domain for my rather random blog posts was recently featured by them. You can read their post here. I made the move over to michele.blog early in January of this year, as I outlined here. Don and Paolo … [Read more...] about Michele.blog Featured by DotBlog Domain Registry
Greening The Web On St Patrick’s Day
Today is St Patrick's Day and I'm in Austin, Texas for SXSW. Walking around the downtown area earlier today every 2nd person is making an effort to wear some green. But what about online? The guys over at .irish are running a campaign centred around turning the web green for Paddy's Day. You can do your bit by switching over your profile pic on both Facebook and Twitter … [Read more...] about Greening The Web On St Patrick’s Day
Registering Premium .Irish Domains Is Now Easy
With the launch of new TLDs a lot of the domain registries introduced quite complex pricing models. You had a "standard' registration fee, but you also had a lot of different ways of handling "premium" domain names. Unfortunately getting those "weird" prices to "play nice" with our billing system was far from easy, as the system essentially sees a domain extension as being a … [Read more...] about Registering Premium .Irish Domains Is Now Easy
The .Irish Domain Is Now Available
Last Thursday afternoon, while the ICANN meeting was wrapping up in Buenos Aires, a historic moment was reached. At 5pm Irish time the .irish top level domain entered "general availability". In simpler words - from that moment onwards anyone, anywhere can now register a .irish domain name. This is cool. It's something that I've been looking forward to for several … [Read more...] about The .Irish Domain Is Now Available