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Comment on Domain scam merchants get legs sucked by toothless OFT by Is the dark side of new gTLDs starting to emerge?

Is the dark side of new gTLDs starting to emerge? — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:11:19 +0000

[...] unusually, the article was from 2002 – yes nearly a decade ago – it is called “Domain scam merchants get legs sucked by toothless OFT” and it tells how Mr Goolnik had had his knuckles rapped by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) [...]

Comment on What the hell is wrong with 123-Reg? by Chris

Chris — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:16:07 +0000

Every bloody time that 123-reg redesign their website and slap a load more eye-candy, it seems to get more and more useless and slower to load.

Most recent change they’ve done is to the domain forwarding list.
Previously you’d get a nice long list of your forwarded email addresses, but now they’ve ‘web 2.0-ed’ it by adding silly js boxes and large colourful buttons. It’s like “My first domain registration”.

The real kicker? It now takes longer just to see all your email addresses; the view by goes upto 25 addresses per page only. The old pages were ugly as sin, but they actually worked.

The new floaty box thing to add another forwarder is unresponsive and buggy, and doesn’t update properly.

Load of cack.

Comment on My favourite childhood story – The Magic Paintbrush by Farrah

Farrah — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:05:26 +0000

Wow!!!! I remember this book! I loved the lady bird series; The Magic Stone and the Little Porridge Pot amongst others were my favourites.

Oh the memories!! Thanks for sharing!

Comment on My favourite childhood story – The Magic Paintbrush by Saira

Saira — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:59:56 +0000

Yay! I am so glad I found it. Thank you so much! I have been telling this story to my daughter, I faintly remembered it. Now she can read it herself.

Comment on A damaged process and a damaged community by Web Hosting » Blog Archive » Stars Aligning for .Nxt Conference

Web Hosting » Blog Archive » Stars Aligning for .Nxt Conference — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:01:54 +0000

[...] days after .Nxt Conference organizer Kieren McCarthy lamented that some supporters were asking him to postpone his new gTLD conference, it looks like the timing [...]

Comment on A damaged process and a damaged community by Web Hosting » Blog Archive » The Perils of Working With ICANN

Web Hosting » Blog Archive » The Perils of Working With ICANN — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:44:20 +0000

[...] with the process was neatly summed up in a blog post by Kieren McCarthy today. McCarthy, who previously worked at ICANN, is organizing a new TLD [...]

Comment on My analysis of the broken ICANN culture by kierenmccarthy

kierenmccarthy — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:55:32 +0000

Cheers Stephane.

Comment on My analysis of the broken ICANN culture by S Van Gelder

S Van Gelder — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:20:56 +0000

Kieren,

Apologies for the spam filter problems. I have cut and pasted your comment without changing a single word and uploaded it myself on the blog as a comment.

Thanks,

Stéphane

Comment on Dot-xxx to be approved tomorrow by Web Hosting » Blog Archive » ICANN Board Set to Approve .XXX Domain Friday

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:52:07 +0000

[...] staffer Kieren McCarthy is reporting that ICANN’s general counsel has spilled the beans on .xxx, saying ICANN will approve the new [...]

Comment on What the hell is wrong with 123-Reg? by Paul

Paul — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:08:07 +0000

I would strongly recommend avoiding this terrible company – they are genuinely the worst I’ve ever dealt with. Their unlimited hosting package is unable to deal with a simple wp site and their customer support is extremely poor!

Here’s a review I wrote on my site recently after they killed my rankings due to around two months of unexplained downtime and slow loading – http://www.paulnrogers.co.uk/review-123-reg-hosting-services/

Do not use them!!!!