Image via WikipediaI always applaud inventive and innovative marketing techniques. I think they're great.But when the marketing department of a multinational starts inventing domain names you have to wonder what they're at!Chris from Sensorpro spotted a Dell advert publicising dell.co.ie I suspect someone got Ireland and the UK confused, as we don't have a co.ie extension!In … [Read more...] about Dell Marketing – Inventing Domain Names!
Register365 No Longer Irish
Hosting365 have announced that they've sold Register365, which is their shared hosting and domains business to Namesco a UK provider.So now Ireland's largest provider is no longer Irish. According to the press release Hosting365 are going to focus on their managed services.What does that mean for the Irish hosting market?It could be interesting times ahead, as Novara was … [Read more...] about Register365 No Longer Irish
Todaynic – The Spamming Registrar – Wants Me To Change My Post
Image via WikipediaI have little or no patience for spammers, as most people know.Since I run several sites that deal with domains and the internet industry in general I seem to have been targetted by TodayNic's comment and forum spammers. Over the past year or so I've had to remove multiple spam comment attacks from several sites.It's annoying. Very annoying.However it's even … [Read more...] about Todaynic – The Spamming Registrar – Wants Me To Change My Post
More Irish Online Idiocy – Enterprise Ireland Fund Template Monster Clone?
Image by Irish Typepad via FlickrI'm always amazed at the silly / insane / nonsensical junk that comes out of some companies and organisations.Enterprise Ireland seem to be funding a Template Monster clone, which is linked into Digiweb. Why should tax payers be paying for another Eoin Costello project? If it's commercially viable shouldn't it be able to stand on its own two … [Read more...] about More Irish Online Idiocy – Enterprise Ireland Fund Template Monster Clone?
Bloggers Taking Themselves Too Seriously
Xkcd's latest cartoon pretty much sums up how I feel about a lot of this social media rubbish that you keep reading about.Although the prize for most offensively described event has to go to IT@Cork with their idiotic description of an event to "increase an organisation's IQ"! Talk about marketing speak gone insane! … [Read more...] about Bloggers Taking Themselves Too Seriously