Pre-ordering Personal IE Domains

Pretty much everyone will be accepting pre-orders for personal IE domains in advance of the October 31st “go live”

I just hope that people realise what a “landrush” type situation really involves. I’d suspect that quite a few of them don’t.

In a landrush like this not everyone can be made happy. It’s simply not possible.

If, like me, you have an uncommon firstname or surname (I have both!) then you should be fine, but if you have a more common combination you may run into issues.

All you have to do is pickup your local telephone directory to get an idea.

I’ve posted a bit about how the queues can be expected to work on our company blog.

I’d also have to remind people that if you are going to try to get yourname.ie that you choose an Irish provider with servers in Ireland.
This server is only a couple of milliseconds from INEX. Can the same be said for some of the other “irish” providers? (that small “i” is intentional!)
Anyone who recalls the “fun” of the .eu landrush and sunrises will recall that every millisecond made a difference.
It doesn’t matter a damn if you market your business on bargain basement domains using bargain basement servers on the other side of the globe – when it comes down to the crunch people will want to get their IE domains from someone who has a fast, low latency connection into the registry.