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Either the IEDR believes its own PR or the PR company it uses are clueless.
I'm not sure which one it is.

In any case they've pushed out yet another one of those "look at how wonderful we are" type press releases. You know the type. A few facts padded by loads of waffle with pretty much no substance.

Read about it over on my domain blog.

And while talking about the IEDR Tom was good enough to share his insights into the IEDR's crazy claims

I also decided to put the domain iedrsuck.eu live - nothing very exciting for the moment, but I'm sure I can find new things to do with it

I'm really tired of the shenanigans involving the IEDR and the IE namespace, so I wrote this rant.

Feedback welcome (on that site :) )

I posted about the Comreg public consultation on dotIE on my domain blog the other day, but I feel it's worthwhile to mention it here as well.

No matter what your opinion is about the IE namespace NOW is the time to make your opinion known.

The consultation paper covers the background of IEDR and then goes into a number of key topics with questions on each one.

Damn - two Blacknight related posts in the one morning ....

Anyhow .. .As of about half an hour ago we've dropped the price on IE domains to 21 euro.

Go to our main site to check for available domains or to transfer your existing domains.

It looks like Bebo.ie is returning to its rightful owners!

In a few short hours the IE domain registry will receive the first batch of applications for "personal" IE domains.

As I'm on the other side of the globe at the moment (in LA) I won't be around to see what happens. I'm hoping that everything runs smoothly and that our team will do a good job. I've every confidence in them, but I've also got to be realistic - issues will arise and problems will occur. No matter how much you try to plan around these things it's impossible to avoid every issue!

In the meantime I'll be keeping track of what's going on at the ICANN meeting here in Los Angeles, California.

Pretty much everyone will be accepting pre-orders for personal IE domains in advance of the October 31st "go live"

I just hope that people realise what a "landrush" type situation really involves. I'd suspect that quite a few of them don't.

In a landrush like this not everyone can be made happy. It's simply not possible.

If, like me, you have an uncommon firstname or surname (I have both!) then you should be fine, but if you have a more common combination you may run into issues.

All you have to do is pickup your local telephone directory to get an idea.

I've posted a bit about how the queues can be expected to work on our company blog.

I'd also have to remind people that if you are going to try to get yourname.ie that you choose an Irish provider with servers in Ireland.
This server is only a couple of milliseconds from INEX. Can the same be said for some of the other "irish" providers? (that small "i" is intentional!)
Anyone who recalls the "fun" of the .eu landrush and sunrises will recall that every millisecond made a difference.
It doesn't matter a damn if you market your business on bargain basement domains using bargain basement servers on the other side of the globe - when it comes down to the crunch people will want to get their IE domains from someone who has a fast, low latency connection into the registry.

The IE domain registry will finally be allowing individuals to register their own names come end of October

Full details here.

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