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It seems that Technorati is banjaxed. It thinks that this blog has not updated in 33 days. And it seems that this is not unique - other blogs have been having the same update problem with Technorati.
Written by John McCormac on September 25th, 2006 with 8 comments.
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It seems that Eircom has finally put two and two together. It is now advertising its domains and hosting services to its mailing lists. The prices are a bit unrealistic though. At least Eircom is treading water in the hosting business. Esat has been sinking rapidly over the last few years. Eircom lost its dominant position in the Irish hosting business a few years ago. Perhaps it got complacent. Maybe the management just didn’t have a clue how rapidly the market was changing. By the time they copped on, the market had left them well behind and Hosting365.ie emerged as the largest Irish hoster. Given the extent to which the market has changed, the only way back to the top for Eircom would be to buy one of the larger second generation Irish hosters. Even then the quality of the management would be critical.
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Tags: IrishBlogs , Domains, Internet Statistics , Webhosting
Written by John McCormac on September 25th, 2006 with 2 comments.
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Last week, the numbers of active .eu domains seem to stutter. EURid apparently decreased the number of active domains by approximately 4000. On some message boards, it appears that EURid has been sending out e-mails requesting verification of the registrant’s address. It seems that the address data provided on some registrations is not valid.
Some of these domains could have exploited a weakness in the EURid registrant validation process that only requires a valid EU country in the ‘country’ field. The registrars are, apparently, supposed to take care of the address verification. With such a gaping hole in the registry system, the chances are that the number of .eu domains with dodgy registrant data is a significant percentage of the active .eu domains. But then dealing with the problem might reduce the number of registered .eu domains to a more realistic level and it would look bad for EURid to lose so many domains.
Tags: Irishblogs,Searchengines .EU, Domains, .eu Fiasco, Internet Statistics, Eurid, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on September 25th, 2006 with comments disabled.
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