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Irish technology blogger Damien Mulley has organised an interesting initiative called the Tuesday Push. The idea being to put the spotlight on cool startups and services in a co-ordinated fashion. This week’s “target” is photo sharing site Pix.ie which just happens to be a client of ours. So what do they do exactly? In their […]
Up until a few short months ago Movable Type, which is my preferred blogging platform, was not open source. While there was a free personal license if you made commercial use of the software you were honour bound to get a commercial license of some kind. Since then MovableType has launched an open source project, […]
We’re happy to announce that we’ve finally enabled dotmobi (.mobi) transfers. If you have a .mobi domain registered elsewhere you can transfer it to us for the low cost of € 10 (ex-vat). Similar to .com and many other domain extensions, .mobi uses the EPP system, so you will need to ensure that you have […]
If you’re using Twitter you can now follow our updates from both this blog and our technical status one by simply following the blacknight user on Twitter. Of course we’re still offering email updates and RSS feeds, so if you aren’t using Twitter you don’t need to worry about it. EDIT: updated twitter a/c to […]
Quite a few of our clients will have received emails over the last couple of days about their domains’ contact details. The text of the email is similar to this: Dear Domain Holder, This message is a reminder to help you keep the contact data associated with your domain registration up-to-date. As of October 31, […]
If your site is accessible over ipv6 or you simply want to find other ipv6 enabled sites then a new web directory called Sixy might be of interest. Unlike a lot of more traditional directories Sixy uses tags to categorise sites and as a site owner you can specify which ones you’d like associated with […]
TJ McIntyre posted earlier this week about a courtcase in Dublin involving abusive activity on Bebo. TJ goes into some detail about the case and how the court was able to apply pre-existing legislation to a new medium. He also goes onto add a word of warning which many legislators should heed: But any extension […]
Image via Wikipedia Our poor coffee machine! It’s been completely overworked and abused since we first got it and we now have to schedule some downtime. Naturally we’ll be conducting the much needed maintenance outside office hours, as we wouldn’t want a lack of caffeine to have a negative impact on our staff’s performance. We […]
During the ICANN meeting in Paris last month Afilias, the company that manages the .info registry, put forward a proposal to change some of the .info policies. The idea behind the new policy (PDF) is to help stem online fraud and cybercrime of various kinds, however the policy document itself is very ambiguous in its […]
Image via Wikipedia As I mentioned previously, I was asked to give a presentation on IPv6, or more specifically, our experience with deploying IPv6, at the recent ICANN meeting in Paris. Leo Vegoda has posted an excellent followup of the session on the ICANN blog, summarising the speakers’ various comments and thoughts. While we may […]
We’re currently putting what I hope (and even pray!) are the final touches to our new website. One of the things we are very very interested in updating is the testimonials page ie. the place where people tell us how wonderful we are! Seriously. If you like our services and are happy to let others […]
Image by el frijole via Flickr I don’t have an iPhone, in case you were wondering. You probably weren’t, but I felt I had to share this vital piece of information before saying anything else! According to The Unofficial Apple Weblog (via), the latest firmware release for both the iPhone and iPod Touch includes support […]