I spent part of my lunch break today checking the IE deleted list. As usual there's a very mixed bag of domains in there. There's some really nice generics (ie. one word domains) that would never be dropped in a gTLD. One that caught my eye is skype.ie. This was previously registered to a company other than Skype. I mentioned the co.uk challenge to skype.co.uk, and while there … [Read more...] about Skype Deleted
Random Silliness
This is funny (strong lanuage) … [Read more...] about Random Silliness
Ruby on Rails on Windows
It seems that a lot of people develop Ruby On Rails using Windows. I suppose that makes sense (to a point), so it was only inevitable that O'Reilly (or someone else) would get round to publishing a book / pamphlet on setting up a development environment. In this case it was O'Reilly with "Rails on Windows" - it's a PDF download, so you get to download and make the trees suffer … [Read more...] about Ruby on Rails on Windows
Eircom – Drops Price On Domains
Eircom have dropped their pricing on domain names. While this is currently appearing on the Eircom.net business site as a "sale", there is no indication of the duration. Their price on .ie domains drops from €99 to €67, which puts them almost €3 below both Novara and Hosting365, while their pricing on .com domains (€10) comes in slightly above that … [Read more...] about Eircom – Drops Price On Domains
ICANN Looking For Candidates
ICANN is currently seeking several candidates to fill roles on its various boards and committees: 3 seats on the ICANN Board of Directors 2 members to Generic Names Supporting Organization Council (GNSO) 3 members of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) 1 Country Code Names Support Organization Council (ccNSO) member ICANN have extended the deadline for statements of … [Read more...] about ICANN Looking For Candidates