Published May 5th, 2006
in cctld, iedr, domains and uncategorized.
Think back to 1998, the IEDRs rules were very restictive, if you wanted a .ie you might have settled for a .ie.nu domain.
It’s now 2006, the IEDRs rules have been relaxed, does the .ie.nu still have anything to offer?
Well including VAT a .ie.nu costs EUR 84.70, and a .ie costs EUR 54.45 (from a reseller called blacknight, as the registry encourages potential registrants to deal with resellers rather then with it directly by a pricing policy)
Regardless of pricing one cannot recommend a psudo cctld, the extension for Ireland is .ie full stop. Readers will recall the .uk.co saga
Technically speaking .nu is the cctld for Nieu, an island in the South Pacific. It is a member of the commonwealth of nations, and since 1974 has been a self-governing parliamentary area in free association with New Zealand. So while its policitical climate seems more solid then Columbia’s using the domain still doesn’t look good, and remember when it comes to domains looks are everything! as it is humans that visit websites. Continue reading ‘.ie.nu’
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Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, all the rest have 31 except February which… has 28th and… doesn’t rhyme…
Regardless of metre February 28th is tomorrow, and it is the last day in which you can register a .ie domain for the below cost price of EUR 36.30 from Blacknight Solutions. Continue reading ‘The cheapest .ie reseller’
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Published February 26th, 2006
in domain, wipo, iedr, government, domains and uncategorized.
The Irish Government’s “Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism” recently used the WIPO system against “Odyssey Internet Portal Limited”
The Department states it had intended to use the domain cultureireland.ie for a new agency called “Culture Ireland” with the goal of promoting Irish culture, which is admirable. However the Department proceeded to have their stationary printed and their agency publicised in the media before actually registering the domain!
David vs Goliath? Well the registrant never responded and still got to keep the domain!
Now here’s the thing, the very same Department that filed the recent WIPO actually had the domain back in 2002 for a brand called Cultúr and let it drop meanwhile.
Interestingly, this is only the 3rd .ie ccTLD to enjoy a complete WIPO, the others were three.ie and shopelectric.ie. Continue reading ‘Register the domain before printing the stationary’
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Published February 12th, 2006
in dotie, iedr and domains.
I visited the domain police.ie recently expecting to find the official Garda website. However nothing is there. Not even a fansite to the 1977–1985 three-piece British band rock group.
Naturally I did a WHOIS on the domain, and found out that an Unincorporated Association of a Gabor Varga & Jozsef Petho registered an RBNs with the CRO, indeed a further search via my favourite search engine revealed that the aforesaid have registered multiple RBNs and ontheirstrenght registered multiple .ie domains, both of a generic nature.
- police.ie
- british.ie
- look.ie
and of a specific nature
While I’m sure the paperwork is in order for these domains, I wonder what their purpose is? I guess novelty email. Continue reading ‘police.ie’
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Published February 9th, 2006
in dotie, iedr and domains.
Let’s say there is a company called Acme Casino Ltd (I’ll use only example names herein). Let’s say I approach a .ie reseller and provide them with the Company number of Acme (which I can easy find from the CRO website), I can then register acmecasino.ie. I would provide all their real details but use my own email address, maybe acme@throwawaydomain.com.
Perhaps I could put some banner ads on the site, or redirect it to a competitor, but this greasy activity would be quickly seen and the company would reclaim the domain.
However… instead of using Acme’s full trademark what if I just used the generic element, and registered casino.ie, or related terms like gambling.ie, money.ie.
It would be very easy for me to simply register CRO RBNs containing those terms, but if I wished to save the multiple EUR 20’s that would cost then I could take what I will term the “acme route”.
Let’s say did wish to be above board and register RBNs, now let’s say we wanted to register casino.ie,gambling.ie, and money.ie. The obvious route would eb to register those three RBNs, but instead of paying for all three, what if I just got one RBN called “Casino Gambling Money”, indeed what if I was an absolute cheapskate and got “Casino Gambling Money Keyword1 Keyword2 Keyword3 insert rest of dictionary ad infinitum…” of course some restraint would be necessary as the CRO RBN aplications are rubber stamped by humans, and the right of refusal is reserved in the 1963 act.
In this article I have assumed that the RBN is solely for the purpose of satisfying the IEDR, however in reality it is also required to open a bank account for the hypothetical sole trader, and so another level of human rubber stamping is involved. Further, I cannot condone the above, I am just pointing out that while the IEDR consider themselves to be a “managed” registry, and indeed they do manage as much as is possible, but the public often consider the parties behing .ie domains to be respectable this is a non sequitur.
Continue reading ‘IEDR.ie loopholes’
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