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I always applaud inventive and innovative marketing techniques. I think they’re great.
But when the marketing department of a multinational starts inventing domain names you have to wonder what they’re at!
Chris from Sensorpro spotted a Dell advert publicising dell.co.ie I suspect someone got Ireland and the UK confused, as we don’t have a co.ie extension!
In fact, if you try to get either you will see:
% Error – Two letter domain are not permitted by IEDR Registration Policies.
% Please read: http://www.iedr.ie/NamingPolicy.php#validity
And here’s the banner image (click to enlarge) :
From Francesco:
Mmm… maybe now Eurodns will register it and start a new “Irish Registry” of their own
From Mark:
dell.co.ie/hiddendatacentre
Clearly they want to keep their hidden data centre hidden a bit longer.
From Michele Neylon:
@Francesco
If two letter IE domains were possible they wouldn’t be the only ones looking for one