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Originally Posted by Arch-Stanton Quite right, it is a different matter. However, here’s an interesting static, there are approx 300,000 registered businesses’ here in Ireland (source enterprise Ireland) yet the IEDR have only sold 50,000 names to date. The restriction of access impedes many peoples ability to purchase a .ie domain. How may times yourself have you answered questions on boards, explaining to people, the hoops they must jump through before they can buy a .ie. The IEDR over the last couple of years have dropped their price and developed a better control panel for resellers, this is good, and fair play, operators like yourself have passed this saving on to your customers. However, I believe competition in the market can only benefit the customer and increase the efficiency of registries and availability of names people want. |
What I don't like about
IEDR is the fact that they sell .ie domains to any business from outside Ireland if they can prove (copy of an invoice) that they do business in Ireland. That's not really fair to the irish owned business. Did you ever try to get a .co.uk name? It won't be as easy as UK customers gets the .ie name.
I found myself prices for the .ie too high, but thanks to Blacknight for passing the savings on to customers, i managed to get what i wanted for half the price it used to be.
.ie might help you on telling the visitors you are an irish business, but what about website owned by UK customers that have a .ie domain? I heard many people complaining as the prices on some of those website displayed in Euro differ from the credit cards charges after the purchase.