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I posted this over on the company blog yesterday, but completely forgot to cross-post it here....

Basically - we're offering .mobi registrations for €6.75 ex-VAT for a limited time

It's probably one of the lowest prices you'll find for a .mobi domain online ...

We released our latest promo earlier today.

Basic details:
Get a .im domain for €4.95 for one year (ex-VAT)

More details here (not that there are many tbh)

ICANN is currently going through a complicated process in order to introduce more domain extensions (the bit after the ".")

While the launch of new TLDs is something that a lot of people will welcome it is not without its issues.

One of the areas that has been receiving quite a bit of attention is in relation to intellectual property rights.

So what has this got to do with privacy?

In many respects very little, but unfortunately the latest document that the IP community have released does impact on privacy.

In simple terms the IP people see their rights as being more important than those of private individuals.

I've posted in more detail both here and here.

And if you have feelings about the subject I would urge you to make your feelings known to ICANN - any internet user can do so!

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Today was a reasonably productive day...

No day is every really as productive as I'd like it to be, but today was pretty good!

To start with I finally had a few quiet minutes to myself and was able to book my flights to Sydney for the ICANN meeting. I had tried to book it online, but I couldn't make sense of the times / dates ie. if you leave Dublin on Friday, which day would you arrive in Sydney. Solution was to just ring Trailfinders and let them worry about it. They also gave me a better rate on the ticket than I'd found online, so it was a "win win" situation. Now all I have to do is either persuade the Hilton to give me a better rate or else find a different hotel....

The other bit of progress today was that we finally launched Windows 2008 with IIS7 on our shared hosting platform. We're giving the first 100 signups for a Windows 2008 Minimus plan a massive 20 euro off, so you can get your site hosted on the latest Microsoft server platform for a mere 29.95 for the first year!! (More details here)

Now if only I could work my way through the rest of my todo list...

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If you don't want to read a shameless plug, then stop reading now...

Over at Blacknight we're doing a special offer on .im domain registration - simply use the coupon code "imfeelinglucky" when placing your order and you'll get 10 euro off!

Over the last few weeks we've been working on integrating with a load of different domain registries, such as .je (Jersey) and .gg (Guernsey).

Since we are now an ICANN accredited registrar  I've also been working away at our accreditations with the ICANN gTLD registries.

As we went through the accreditation process instead of buying an existing registrar we have to liase with each registry operator we intend on working with. It's an interesting process, but takes quite a bit of time.

Personally I'm a lot happier that we chose to do things this way!

Taking short cuts when it comes to ICANN is not a good idea (look what happened with RegisterFly!)

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I'm overjoyed about this one ...

Full details over on the company blog

When I got my Nokia E71 back before Christmas I immediately fell in love with the device.
One of the options that we setup was MFE (Mail for Exchange) which was pretty functional, although a bit limited.

However while we were working on our Hosted Exchange service launch Paul came across a really nice bit of software that takes the E71 and Microsoft Exchange 2007 to a whole new level.

The software - RoadSync - is really cool and makes full use of ActiveSync on Exchange server 2007. Basically it means that you can get "email push" without having to spend a fortune on expensive addons for your Exchange server.

Configuring RoadSync is pretty easy. You just enter your login details on the device you're using and off you go.

If you're connecting into an Exchange Server 2007 setup, like we are, then you can turn the synchronisation to use ActiveSync, which means that you'll get your email on your phone almost instantly.

The other features that give RoadSync that extra "edge" are its support for HTML emails (MFE simply can't handle them) and sub-folder support. Since I get so much email every day I have a rather complex set of rules to filter emails off to different folders depending on subject lines, senders and addressees. MFE simply cannot deal with the subfolders, whereas RoadSync does a reasonable job of it.

All in all moving my business email onto my phone has made things a lot easier. I don't feel as "tied" to my desktop / laptop as before and can receive emails easily while on the move. While admittedly a lot of this would have been possible on my N95 the full keyboard on the E71 takes "possible" to "comfortable", which in my mind is a pretty important difference.

The only problem with any of the mobile email software seems to be an inability to handle multiple Exchange accounts, which is understandable. Unfortunately it means that I can't move my personal email onto our Hosted Exchange cluster, which I wouldn't mind doing ...

Sick of paying over the odds for IE domains?

How about getting them for a tenner?

Check out the latest Blacknight deal valid for 1 day only!!

I don't "do" New Year's resolutions really.

It's far too easy to make resolutions and then simply drop them after a few weeks...

However there is one thing that I have been meaning to do and that is to actually launch sites based on some of the domains I own.

So with that in mind I threw up something really quick on stamps.ie over the Christmas break. I know it's really ugly, but I will sort out the CSS etc., when I get a chance or bribe someone else to make it pretty.

I've several other projects that are in various states of development.. the main problem is finding the time to do something productive with them!

Of course as a domainaholic I've also been acquiring new domains and sites ...

Earlier this evening I purchased Fasterpoint.com, which is a quick and easy way to view the marketplace listings on Sitepoint. I might use the same script to do something with feed.ie if I get a couple of hours...

While testing a few things on our main site I discovered that bookreviews.ie wasn't registered, so I grabbed it (if you want to contribute reviews to either it or filmreviews.ie - let me know!)

Why so many IE domains? Well the simple answer is - why not? Besides, we're doing a special on them for the month of January, so it's a really good time to grab a few!

We've dropped the price on IE domains for the month of January to €19.95 / year ex-vat

Find out more here