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Old 10-01-2008, 05:08 PM
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kicked the bucket ?


no idea, it never really took off IMHO. These types of sites need to reach critical mass.
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that could be because they never looked after properly.
It was a good project for Ireland, but....
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I think he was getting too many spam posts and not enough valid ones ...

I can understand where he's coming from!

Before I put a captcha on search.ie's link submission form I was getting a couple of thousand spam submissions per week
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The domain expired today (if it hasn't been renewed) and it's got a nice page rank of 6. Who'll get it I wonder?
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All is not lost. Anybody who joined Kick.ie can continue to use: DotNetKicks.com : Anouilh Dotnetkics seems to be the main site.
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FYI : kick.ie is registered again.
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