Rob Golding Internet Entrepreneur Member of multipe ICANN Working Groups - fighting for domain registrants rights Expert Witness on IT for UK Courts
Rob Golding
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Jun 04 2007
New Ordering Systems
We are pleased to announce the “opening” of our new online ordering/billing platform based around WHMCS at https://www.astutium.com/cart.php This will be replacing our various existing systems of WHM-AP, LPanel and over 30 of our custom orderforms over the coming months. Each of the Astutium family of websites will be shortly updated to put orders through …
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Apr 23 2007
Astutium acquire DuportOnline hosting business
Astutium Ltd (www.astutium.com), a leading UK provider of domain names, email/web hosting and online services for SMEs and corporates, today announced that it has acquired the UK and US operations of DuportOnline (www.DuportOnline.com). “To move forward, improve, and expand DuportOnline we needed to introduce a new partner. Existing customers were the main priority when selecting …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2007/04/astutium-acquire-duportonline-web-hosting-business/
Apr 13 2007
More RegFly Woes …
So things look like they are going from worse to downright abysmal for the many beleagured registerfly clients. What should have been a realtively painless excercise in admin contacts migrating domains away to a new supplier, with ICANN assistance if the RF systems failed, looks like an ever growing c*ck-up, with class action suits, domains getting deleted, …
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Mar 13 2007
And Register Flies off …
In a 2 week long madcap race against reality, registerfly has managed to change hands twice first back to the original registration company that started it second by US Federal courts handing control once more to K Medina – the man now (in)famous for spending his customers money not on the renewals they paid for, …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2007/03/and-register-flies-off/
Feb 28 2007
Data Centre Expansion – Astutium Ltd Expands again in London
New data-cente Suite completed within Legend IPHouse facility London, UK February 28th, 2007 – Astutium Ltd ( www.astutium.com ), a leading UK provider of managed dedicated servers and colocation space, has again increased their footprint in London. The company has just completed the setup of a new private “Clever Metal Suite” facility at IPHouse 2, …
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Feb 19 2007
Virtuozzo VPS Virtual Private Servers now available
Our new VZ based Virtual Private Servers (VPS) are now available. VPS is an intermediate step between a shared hosting solution and a dedicated server, giving you a “slice” of a powerful managed server, with much greater control than could be offered in a shared environment. More details will be available this week at UK Virtual …
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Feb 13 2007
ICANN Says Nuclear Response Is Imminent
In the wake of the Registerfly.com fiasco ICANN anounced that they are going to use their powers and nuke RegFlys Accreditation. RegisterFly have 2 weeks to solve the customer complaints issues or face termination. ICANNs letter to them includes a comprehensive shopping list of complaints filed against Registerfly over the past two years and multiple failed attempts to …
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Feb 13 2007
New Website Launched
Finally we have more than 75% of the old content transferred into our shiny new Etomite CMS based website. All PHP and friendly … So in order to speed up the process of testing and tidyup we’ve put the new site live, and awaiting the flood of client complaints about the new templates and colour schemes 🙂 In all …
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Jan 18 2007
“No Frills Internet” ValueColo service closes… and Astutium Colo opens
We have decided to close our budget collocation service, formerly at http://www.valuecolo.co.uk Due to ever increasing datacentre prices, primarily in the trebling of space costs, and ever growing need for ups (and generator) backed up power feeds, we would have had to increase the pricing for new colo’d servers, which brought the budget service almost to …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2007/01/no-frills-internet-valuecolo-service-closes-and-astutiumcolo-opens/
Dec 25 2006
Christmas Opening Hours
The London Admin Office will be closed until 2nd January 2007 for the Christmas break. Sales, Administration and Development departments will re-open on the Tuesday. Support will continue to be available throughout, DataCentre staff and support teams work 24/7/365. As always, should you need support, please login to the dedicated support section in the client …
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