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Old 30-06-2009, 11:52 AM
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I'm involved in UCC's Students Union this year, and they're currently in the process of developing a new student website, which will be a portal for all student information and services for the college. We were going to use myUCC.ie but the owner is selling for €500 so thats a no-go. So we're thinking of suggestions for a catchy .ie domain name, any idea?
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erm I thought it was technically illegal to sell a domain name (.ie's) ... is he actually selling something beside the domain name ?
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why don't you get a sub domain ? The UCC SU owns www.uccSU.ie . so you could have my.uccSU.ie as your address.
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Not a bad option Paul, cheers for that. Yes Forbairt apparently it is illegal, (only learnt that as a result of posting this) so we're taking the case up with the IEDR, fingers crossed we can get myUCC after all.
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How about ucc4u.ie ?
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how about "studentsofcork.ie" or SOC.ie for short
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