September 2005
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Eircom launched its own attack on the retail hosting market today with its own “budget” hosting offers. For an ISP it was quite an innovative move but it was easy to see Eircom’s call-centre management mentality at work. The market has moved on and retail hosting is often an impulse purchase or personal recommendation purchase.
The big problem with Eircom’s offering is not the price - that’s relatively on a par with a lot of the retail hosting prices. It is the fact that there is no way to purchase online. The retail hosting business is highly automated and this fact does not seem to have sunk into the minds of Eircom management.
In the last year or so Eircom has turned its hosting business around and is trying hard to regain its number one position that it held a few years ago.
http://www.whoisireland.com/reports.html
Tags: IrishBlogs , Domains, Internet Statistics , Webhosting
Written by John McCormac on September 29th, 2005 with comments disabled.
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Novara.ie launched its budget hosting brand HOSTING247.IE and other Irish hosters do not seem pleased. Previously, Novara’s call for a reduction in the price of .ie registrations was greeted by some other Irish hosters as being somewhat hypocritical as they pointed out that Novara’s markup on .ie domains was high. However the launch of Novara’s budget hosting brand has changed things. It also has a sting in the tail - Novara is offering hosters who register .ie domains the .ie wholesale price.
Taken on its own, it could be just a move on the low end of the hosting market but the inclusion of the offer of .ie registrations at the IEDR wholesale cost price to hosters is significant. Most smaller hosters ignore .ie cctld completely and have very few .ie registrations. The wholesale price of the .ie domains does not make it viable for these hosters. This move could see some smaller hosters taking advantage of this offer.
Tags: IrishBlogs , Domains, Internet Statistics , Webhosting
Written by John McCormac on September 27th, 2005 with 1 comment.
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The top ten Irish hosters as established by WhoisIreland.com are below. These figures are based on domains hosted on the nameservers of the hosters and are an extract from the monthly Irish hosting industry reports published by WhoisIreland.com
The Top Ten Irish Hosters For Sep 2005
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| hoster | new ie | ie total | new total | bionic |
+-------------------------+--------+----------+-----------+--------+
| HOSTING365.IE | 159 | 3490 | 473 | 13950 |
| EIRCOM.NET | 45 | 5431 | 73 | 8620 |
| ESAT.NET | 37 | 3286 | 44 | 7475 |
| NOVARA.IE | 101 | 2935 | 220 | 6196 |
| IRISHDOMAINS.NET | 122 | 3283 | 174 | 5270 |
| D-N-A.NET/UTV | 8 | 1360 | 16 | 4364 |
| HOSTIRELAND.COM | 46 | 1390 | 91 | 3158 |
| DIGIWEB.IE | 23 | 1000 | 42 | 2747 |
| BLACKNIGHTSOLUTIONS.COM | 65 | 986 | 172 | 2625 |
| WEBHOSTINGIRELAND.IE | 89 | 944 | 178 | 2428 |
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BIONIC = Biz Ie Org Net Info Com
Eircom had 373 dead .ie domains.
Esat had 652 dead .ie domains.
A number of .ie domains may not be grouped on the nameservers of the hosters controlling them. The larger hosters that are IEDR approved .ie resellers act as proxies for their smaller hoster clients when registering .ie domains. Thus a larger hoster may be the technical or billing contact for a larger number of .ie domains than appear on its nameservers.
The main .ie growth in any given month has been concentrated on a few HSPs.
ISP growth in .ie domains has been insignificant. In terms of active .ie domains and continued growth, the main Irish hosters are Hosting365.ie, Eircom.net, Novara.ie and Irishdomains.net.
HostIreland’s performance related advertising has yet to provide a significant increase in its hosting figures beyond its historical growth rate.
http://www.whoisireland.com/reports.html
Tags: IrishBlogs , Domains, Internet Statistics , Webhosting
Written by John McCormac on September 27th, 2005 with 1 comment.
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Google’s new blogsearch launched this week. It is still in beta but it has one major advantage over Technorati - it is blazingly fast. While Google is still limited - it has only indexed blog posts back to March 2005, it seems to be using much the same algorithm and the advanced search seems to be minimalistically elegant.
Back in the late dot.bomb period, the first mover advantage used to be important. Which ever company was first to market, even if the product was shoddy was supposed to have had an advantage over the later entrants to the market. It didn’t always work out and some of the first movers learned the hard way that it is the pioneers that end up with the arrows in their backs.
While Google’s blogsearch does not have tags to classify blogs (Technorati’s main selling point), it does apply Google’s algorithm to the text.
Tags: Irishblogs - Search - BlogSearch - Google -Technorati
Written by John McCormac on September 16th, 2005 with comments disabled.
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