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As the year draws to an end it’s a good time to review things. Over the last day or so I’ve been exploring our social media activity and “performance”. Social media is important to any business these days, but without doing some level of analysis on a number of metrics it’s kind of pointless. Sure, […]
Back in January of this year I attended and spoke at the newest of the domain name industry events – NamesCon. The first edition was relatively small, by US standards, but still had several hundred attendees. The range of people both attending and speaking was impressively diverse, so I was interested to see where they […]
“You can call me back now I know you are not a religious cult” was the text message that brought it home to me that Congregation was really different. I had left a voice mail message for a very interesting digitally savvy accountant about the social media un-conference that I was organising in small West […]
WordPress and Joomla are both very popular content management systems (CMS). They’re used by thousands of our clients and on millions of websites worldwide. Since they are both so popular they are also very popular targets for hackers. If you can find an exploit that’s likely to work against millions of sites then it’s a […]
The EU has brought in some new VAT rules which come into effect on the 1st of January 2015. It works very similar to the current VAT rules with one key difference. The current state of affairs is that all consumer accounts get charged Irish VAT which currently stands at 23%. From Jan 1st 2015 […]
Over the past few weeks our technical team have been working hard on improving and speeding up our domain name search functions. The domain search on our site was slow. It was unwieldy and it simply wasn’t “fun” using it. They’re still working on improving how domain names are displayed to you on our site, […]
While our servers might be working 24/7/365 our staff will be taking some time off over the Christmas holidays. So here are the opening hours for our offices over the Christmas break: Wednesday 24th 8:00AM – 3:00PM Thursday 25th Closed Friday 26th Closed Saturday 27th 9:00AM – 5:00PM Sunday 28th 12:00PM – 4:00PM ** Monday […]
Christmas. It’s that one time of the year when most people put their feet up and relax for at least one or two days. It’s also a time when a lot of businesses shutdown for up to two weeks. While the big day is still a couple of weeks off being able to enjoy it […]
Today in case you didn’t know it is World Aids Day. We’re obviously not going to talk about AIDs or HIV as there are people far more skilled in doing so. What we will talk about is .hiv the domain extension. See the below video to learn more about the .hiv extension. Did you know […]