http://register.ie/blog Ireland's Domain Provider Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:31:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Following our recent office move we have changed our opening hours so that our phone lines are available for an extra half hour Monday to Thursday. Previously we were available from 9am to 1pm and 2pm to 5.30pm, Monday to Fiday. Our phone lines will now be on from 9am to 1pm ... http://register.ie/blog/?p=107 Novara will be moving office on Friday the 4th of July. As such, please note that our phones will not be working that day and our text chat will not be online. If you have any urgent issues on the 4th, we will be contactable via the usual ... http://register.ie/blog/?p=106 We posted last month about renewing .eu names here. Unfortunately we're still getting a lot of late renewals which can be a big problem compared to other domain types. The reason is that .eu renewals are handled differently to other domains. With say a .com name, it will be suspended after the ... http://register.ie/blog/?p=105 We've changed the layout of our support site slightly to make it easier to navigate, the links all go to the same places but it should be more obvious where everything is now. You can see the new page here If you have any comments or feedback on the new layout, please ... http://register.ie/blog/?p=104 Following the sale of Novara to Digiweb, we noted with interest last month that our largest competitor Hosting 365 sold their shared Hosting and domain registration division to Namesco, a UK based shared hosting company. As a result, Register 365 who were previously the largest Irish owned hosting company in ... http://register.ie/blog/?p=72 From the 1st of July our postal address will be changing as we move our office to Digiwebs datacentre and office space in Blanchardstown. Our phone numbers etc will be staying the same and the same people will be answering the phones, just in a shiny new office. No servers are being ... http://register.ie/blog/?p=99 The IEDR recently held a celebration to commemorate the 100,000th .ie name registered which was attended by Internet community leaders, dot.ie resellers, business and consumer groups. The Guest of honour was Minister Eamon Ryan, TD, and Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. The Name in question was www.royal-hospital-kilmainham.ie. ... http://register.ie/blog/?p=97 In March of this year Hosting 365 dropped free phone support during business hours. This left many of their customers unimpressed to say the least. They’ve made a point of their phone support in the past but In their own words: “Over the years, we've provided free phone telephone support during ... http://register.ie/blog/?p=95 When you're looking up if a name is available to register, be careful where you do it. In the last few weeks a number of our customers have done searches with American registration companies to see if a name is available only to find it registered the next day. Luckily the ... http://register.ie/blog/?p=94 Following his recent Sale of Novara to Digiweb, Dublin City Enterprise Board have an interesting profile on their Website of Novaras former MD and Owner Eoin Costello. The Article covers from Eoins early life and work at the London stock exchange right up to the sale of the company. It also describes ... http://register.ie/blog/?p=92