Why is it against the law to sell alcohol on Good Friday in Ireland? Can anyone explain it to me? … [Read more...] about Alchohol Free Day – Why?
Blogging From Engineers Ireland
The IIA in association with Engineers Ireland is organising a half-day seminar on blogging, podcasting and all that funky stuff... Brian Greene is currently talking about the finer points of podcasting... How to do it and what it is. … [Read more...] about Blogging From Engineers Ireland
Parsons on Eurid – part two
Bob Parsons, CEO of Godaddy, has posted again about the .EU sunrise fiasco with an analysis of the "phantom registrars" It seems that my suspicions about Delaware LLCs were well founded.. So, the question now is will someone do anything about this? Is it acceptable that london.eu and dublin.eu are ceded to opportunistic cybersquatters? Will the EU take action or will our … [Read more...] about Parsons on Eurid – part two
EU Aftermarket
No matter who you ask the number of speculative registrations during both sunrise and landrush for .eu was obviously high. Eurid has stuck its head in the sand and is claiming that the trademark laws were at fault not them. No matter what went on in the lead up to landrush one thing is sure - the domain aftermarket is booming. Sedo, which is one of the largest domain brokers, … [Read more...] about EU Aftermarket
Landrush Fiasco
EU landrush is a fiasco. Why? Eurid and the EU dropped the ball completely. While you may have been lucky enough to get the domains you wanted under landrush (or one of the sunrises) a lot of people are going to be very upset due to the tactics employed by several hundred registrars who abused the system to their own end. The courts are going to be kept busy for the next couple … [Read more...] about Landrush Fiasco