The Top 10 Irish Web Hosters - October 2006

The top ten Irish web hosters as of 01/October/2006 contains some surprises. Esat (BTIreland) has fallen out of the top five as its decline continues. Eircom.net is still at the number two position but it is being chased by Novara.ie and may well be overtaken this month. Considering that only three ISPs remain in the top ten Irish Hosters list, the Irish market has matured considerably. The second generation Hosting Service Providers (HSPs) have taken over the market.

The figures below are for com/net/org/biz/info/ie (BIONIC) domains hosted.

HOSTING365.IE 20190
EIRCOM.NET 8320
NOVARA.IE 7542
IRISHDOMAINS.NET 6908
BLACKNIGHTSOLUTIONS.COM 6471
ESAT.NET 5896
WEBHOSTINGIRELAND.IE 4436
HOSTIRELAND.COM 4286
U.TV 4100
LETSHOST.IE 3903

WhoisIreland.com publishes a 22 spreadsheet report on the Irish hosting business each month covering domain registration and movement statistics for Irish hosters over the com/net/org/biz/info/ie/eu/uk TLDs.

Written by John McCormac on October 10th, 2006 with comments disabled.
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Google Blogsearch Gets Pingable - Trouble For Technorati?

A post on Tom Raftery’s blog points to a very interesting development in the Blogosphere. Google has announced that bloggers can now ping it directly for inclusion in its blogsearch index. This move is interesting because it means that Google is taking blogging seriously. It also could spell trouble for Technorati and other blog search operations.

This blog seems to be having problems with Technorati. It fails to update information about it despite being pinged. And e-mails to its support desk go unanswered. Now that Google is in the game, the writing may be on the wall for blog aggregators and blog search sites. And having blogs integrated into Google provides a one stop shop for searchers - it has the audience that these other blog search sites do not.

Written by John McCormac on October 10th, 2006 with 2 comments.
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