Site Review - Irish SEO, Marketing & Webmaster Discussion

Arch-Stanton · #1 (**permalink**) 11-02-2006, 06:12 PM

I am looking for some webmasters to review this site. www.dotirl.com

Apart from the look and feel, I would also be interested in your views/opinions on the subject matter of the site.

Cheers

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SlitheryImp · #2 (**permalink**) 11-02-2006, 09:26 PM

To be honest, I can't really see something like this taking off, but then, many of my predictions about the future had me sunning in Cannes on my Yacht about now

It is an interesting idea though, and I really like the design and layout (especially the .irl logo)

How would it work though? Does it completely bypass ICANN? Would you have to get co-operation form all Namesrver admins? Sorry if my questions seem stupid, but I do not have much understanding of how this would work.

blacknight · #3 (**permalink**) 11-02-2006, 10:56 PM

The site design is fine.

The concept is pointless.

louie · #4 (**permalink**) 11-02-2006, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by blacknight

The site design is fine.

The concept is pointless.

you can not get a straight answer then this one from blacknight.

Arch-Stanton · #5 (**permalink**) 12-02-2006, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by SlitheryImp

How would it work though? Does it completely bypass ICANN? Would you have to get co-operation form all Namesrver admins? Sorry if my questions seem stupid, but I do not have much understanding of how this would work.

Your question is right on the mark, it’s a matter of getting all TLD registers working together, see this link.

ICANN are under increasing pressure, at the recent world conference the whole thing was over shadowed by objections of the American control of the Internet, and ICANN are under criticism as being puppets of Verisign.

The whole thing is being played out at a different level, will it remain a closed shop or will they come together and open it up? which way is the Internet going? Who knows!!!!

blacknight · #6 (**permalink**) 12-02-2006, 11:40 AM

Arch-stanton - the ICANN debacle is one thing but the idea of setting up yet another alternative to .ie is a completely different one.

Arch-Stanton · #7 (**permalink**) 12-02-2006, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by blacknight

Arch-stanton - the ICANN debacle is one thing but the idea of setting up yet another alternative to .ie is a completely different one.

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.

blacknight · #8 (**permalink**) 12-02-2006, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Arch-Stanton

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.

No. I would disagree. The perception of restriction is what causes the issue.

If you have a registered business with the CRO there is nothing to stop you registering IE domains

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Originally Posted by Arch-Stanton

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.

In most cases the people asking the questions did not have a registered business name or were still under the impression that they needed to jump through hoops

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arch-Stanton

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.

We've always tried to pass on the savings to our clients, however there are others who simply refuse to

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Originally Posted by Arch-Stanton

However, I believe competition in the market can only benefit the customer and increase the efficiency of registries and availability of names people want.

No. Competition in itself is a good thing, but if you start pushing yet another alternative to .ie you will only cause confusion.

blacknight · #9 (**permalink**) 12-02-2006, 12:34 PM

NB: I've moved this from site reviews to discussion, as the review part of the thread has taken a backseat

louie · #10 (**permalink**) 12-02-2006, 12:54 PM

Quote:

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.

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