Why oh why oh why do people get DNS so wrong?
I’m really tired of other providers’ incompetence when it comes to setting up DNS entries for clients.
There are two basic things you need to setup reverse DNS. Without them it simply will not work:
There’s no point making entries unless you have delegation.
This article explains it in quite simple and plain English
Although consumers may have been following the pricing of domains that they pay ie. the retail rates they should be aware of what is going on behind the scenes.
A lot of the bloggers who are involved in the domain industry have been commenting in recent months about the new contracts that Verisign is getting from ICANN.
As part of our sponsorship of the inaugaral Irish Blog Awards we’d like to offer all nominees a little something.
We are offering all nominees a blog hosting plan + FREE domain (com/net/org/info/biz/co.uk) for one year.
The package details are as follows:
I’ll be giving Damien a special coupon code for the nominees to use.
If you already have your own domain and hosting then you can either transfer it or setup a second blog.
Small print: This offer is non-transferrable and is only available to nominees. It may not be exchanged for other services to the same value and is valid for the first 12 months of hosting and domain registration (for co.uk domains the initial 2 year registration period is covered)
Ambrand mentions the WIPO decision regarding the domain cultureireland.ie
The case is between Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and Odyssey Internet Portal Limited.
It seems that Odyssey registered the domain after the Department had either failed to renew the domain or simply let it expire. While they had held the domain for a period up to 2004 they were no longer the holder when they setup a national agency “culture ireland” in February 2005. Of course the domain was still available at that time, so why didn’t they register it?
In either case they lost the WIPO case.
Why?
The judgement includes some interesting details:
“As to the use of the name “Culture Ireland” by the agency established by the Complainant in February 2005, the Complainant asserts that the agency and its name were “widely publicized” at the time of launch and that the agency “has already gained recognition and has established a reputation in both Ireland and abroad”.
Again there is little detail let alone supporting evidence. Just how widely was the agency publicized in February 2005? Why have no examples of this publicity been produced? What activities has the agency undertaken in the six month period between its launch and the filing of this Complaint to generate the claimed reputation and recognition in that relatively short period? Again the Complainant might have exhibited samples of marketing material or details of marketing spend amongst other things.”
So before you go running off on a big marketing campaign, you may want to protect your brand..
In preparation for my seminar for the IIA I’ve spent some time investigating Irish business blogs and bloggers.
Strangely enough today’s Sunday Business Post also carries a piece on business blogging:
Firms woo the blog generation
Wow! That’s great. I may be able to pick up some nice bits and pieces to add to my seminar.
Oh how wrong could I have been.
As Damien rightly points out, there isn’t a single mention of an Irish blogger. Not one.
A quick search of Google would have returned several pertinent links.
Would it be unfair to say this was lazy journalism?
I don’t think so.
If it was advertorial for a particular company then it should have been labelled clearly as such.
Any argument about it being “a marketing article” is rubbish. If you want to use blogs for marketing then you should at least be capable of doing a quick search to see if anyone is actually doing it already.
A very amusing post by fuzzix shows the choice of iconography by technical publisher O’Reilly when producing books related to Microsoft technologies.
Comparing one of his examples (VB Script) with Perl is quite revealing:
Which of the two animals looks more reassuring?
I’ve been playing with the beta release of IE 7 for the last couple of weeks on and off (ie. on those rare occasions that I bother booting into windows outside office hours)
It was due to its stupidity that I ended up posting the last entry twice!
What can I say about it?
Not a whole lot I’m afraid
The tabbed browsing is a nice addition, but as a Firefox user leaves me completely nonplussed.
The positioning of buttons etc seems to fly in the face of logic.
Why on earth did they decide to put all the “normal” buttons on the right?
And why do I get this incredible sense of deja vu?
Of course the anti-phishing feature is going to attract a certain amount of media attention, but I just found it annoying and disabled it. Why? Well most phishing sites are transmitted / publicised via email, so if you block them there you won’t have any problems, will you?
I was sent an invite to take the beta version of Windows Messenger 8 for a test drive.
The download site didn’t have any issue with me logging in with Firefox, but the download button was “dead” until I logged back in with Internet Explorer (I’m trying the beta of that as well).
Installation was easy and no reboot was required, which is a nice change compared to so many windows products.
So what’s so new and innovative?
Supposedly the level of interaction with your contacts has been taken to new levels with the addition of VOIP and video chat.
I won’t be able to try those out unless my contacts have the same version of the software, but it sounds like every bit of software out there is slowly but surely adding this kind of functionality.
One of the features that immediately caught my eye was the ability to show my contacts which music I was listening to. Unfortunately it only works with Windows Media Player (which I’ve never particularly liked), but it does seem to work quite well.
Contact management seems to have been expanded on, or at least made more obvious.
There is also a file sharing feature, though what differentiates this from the older methods of sending files to contacts is not clear.
We’ve relaunched Irish ISP Test, the site we run for broadband users in Ireland to test their speed.
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