Rob Golding

Rob Golding Internet Entrepreneur Member of multipe ICANN Working Groups - fighting for domain registrants rights Expert Witness on IT for UK Courts

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ICANN GDD Summit 2018

The ICANN GDD ( Global Domains Division ) Annual Meeting is the main Domain Registry/Registrar industry conference for domains companies. As usual Astutium will be in attendance – if you’d like to schedule a meeting to discuss the domain industry, starting/running a domain registrar or selling your business then get in touch 🙂 What? ICANN …

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Christmas and New Year 2017-2018 Opening Hours

2017 Astutium Christmas Card

The Support and Network Operations Teams will be continuing to work 24 / 7 / 365 as usual, taking care of the datacentre, network, servers, managed systems and automated systems, the administrative staff will be taking breaks over the Christmas and New Year period. Astutium Ltd will be operating a reduced Sales and Accounts Team …

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Temporary Extra Confirmations on BitCoin Payments

Starting today, Sun Jul 23 2017 Bitcoin confirmation times and counts will be longer than usual for appx 4 weeks. Astutium Ltd, the first UK based web host to accept bitcoins and the first ICANN accredited domain registrar to take payments in crypto-currencies continue to support both traditional and alternative/peer-to-peer payment methods. However due to …

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Christmas and New Year 2016-2017 Opening Hours

The Support and Network Operations Teams will be continuing to work 24 / 7 / 365 as usual, taking care of the datacentre, network, servers, managed systems and automated systems, the administrative staff will be taking breaks over the Christmas and New Year period. Astutium Ltd will be operating a reduced Sales and Accounts Team …

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Hosted Minecraft 1.11 Explorer Update Servers

Minecraft Explorer Update - with added LLamaness

The latest version of Hosted Minecraft Server – Minecraft 1.11 – Explorer Update is now available from Astutium at https://www.astutium.com/game-servers/minecraft-gaming-server.php All existing clients can update to the 1.11 Explorer Update version of MineCraft through the Astutium MultiCraft Control Panel online now. MC1.11 introduces … Illagers – the odd cousins of Villagers The new Woodland Mansions …

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cPanel and WHMCS Partner Meetings August 2016

Airplane Overhead Astutium Banner

Astutium staff will be attending the August WHMCS and cPanel Partner Meetings in Houston, TX, USA between 27th and 31st August On the agenda for the week are … fixes and enhancements for WHMCS (our preferred ‘cloud’ provider billing system) roadmap and dev plans for cpanel working on solving a few outstanding bugs planning future …

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Last Minute Discounts for HostingCon Global 2016 (New Orleans) July 24-27

Final Last Minute Deal on HostingCon Global 2016 (New Orleans) All Access Passes HostingCon Global is the main annual industry conference (and trade show) for web hosting and vps / cloud hosting providers. This year HostingCon it will be held at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana with plenty of training, education …

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ICANN and Regional Internet Registries Sign SLA for the IANA Numbering Services

Helsinki, Finland – 29 June 2016. The Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and ICANN signed the Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the IANA Numbering Services at ICANN 56 in Helsinki, Finland 29/June/2016. This agreement documents the arrangements for provision by ICANN of IANA numbering services, after the IANA stewardship transition which is expected to begin around …

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Hosted Minecraft 1.10 Frostburn Update Servers

Minecraft Polar Bear

The latest version of Hosted Minecraft Server – Minecraft 1.10 is now available from Astutium at https://www.astutium.com/game-servers/minecraft-gaming-server.php All existing clients can update to the 1.10 version of minecraft through their multicraft control panel online. MC1.10 contains some interesting changes, including the addition of Polar Bears and Strays (a new cold biome skeleton). To celebrate the …

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Business Metrics 1 (of 4) – Essential Figures Every Online Business Should Know

As Head of the Mergers and Acquisitions Team at Astutium much of my day is spent looking at accounts and internal management systems. One thing that I see a lot, is how the majority of small-business owners in the tech space don’t know (and sometimes don’t know how to calculate) their “numbers” – the key …

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Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2016/05/business-metrics-essential-figures-every-online-business-should-know/

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