Shelagh Shaw
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Mar 30 2017
Centralnic ‘de-commissioning’ psuedo TLDs – Batch 1
CentralNic, (a domain registry for a large number of domain extensions and psuedo extensions) advises that effective midnight April 30, 2017 the following SLDs [ domains used as domain extensions ] will be no longer available for registration or renewal. These domains are effectively now dead 🙁 • .ar.com • .gb.com • .hu.com • .kr.com …
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Nov 25 2016
2016 Black Friday / Cyber Monday Special Offers
2016 Black Friday / Cyber Monday Special Offers Save 50% on Servers, Hosting, VPS and More Black Friday is the Friday after USA Thanksgiving. Traditionally it signalled the last date by which American stores expected to be ‘in the black’ (ie. financially profit making for that year) so a critical point in preparing for End …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2016/11/2016-black-friday-cyber-monday-special-offers/
Oct 13 2014
Checking your Rights and Claiming your .UK Domain Name
Nominet the .UK Registry for 2nd Level Domains (2LDs) .co.uk .org.uk .me.uk etc now allow the top level ccTLD .UK to be registered 🙂 For domains which currently do not exist as (something).*.uk they can be registered now at Register Your .UK Domain Name Where (something).*.UK already exists, there is a system of ‘rights’ over …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2014/10/check-your-rights-and-claiming-your-uk-domain-name/
Jun 22 2014
Astutium receives cPanel award at HostingCon 2014
During our recent visit to HostingCon 2014 in Miami Florida, Rob Golding met with several of our key suppliers enabling direct feedback for our customer issues. One (long) meeting was with cPanel – authors of our fully featured Linux hosting control panel which comes as standard with all Astutium Linux Web Hosting Accounts and …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2014/06/astutium-receives-cpanel-award/
Jan 08 2014
.eu extends to Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway
As of today, residents, companies and organisations based in Iceland (IS), Liechtenstein (LI) and Norway (NO) will be eligible to register domain names under the .EU top level domain Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway now allowed to register EU domains Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway have had close economic ties with the European Union since the Community’s …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2014/01/eu-extends-to-iceland-liechtenstein-and-norway/
Sep 02 2013
WordPress Version 3.6 “Oscar” now available
WordPress have released version 3.6 and named it Oscar in honour of Oscar Peterson the Jazz pianist. A brief list of new features includes The new Twenty-Thirteen theme inspired by modern art, which puts focus on your content with a coluorful, single-column design made for media-rich blogging. Revamped Revisions save every change and the new …
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Jul 01 2013
Astutium Networking at HostingCon 2013
June 2013, Astutium staff braved the high temperatures in Austin, Texas, USA to join the 2013 HostingCon industry conference and networking events. The title of the conference this year was “Raise Your Game – Network, Learn, Grow” and it certainly provided the perfect platform and ample opportunities to facilitate just that. HostingCon gives attendees superb …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2013/07/astutium-networking-hostingcon-2013/
Mar 26 2013
Astutium goes Global at World Hosting Days
Astutium’s management team joined more than 4,000 delegates and 100 exhibitors at the 9th Global World Hosting Days (WHD) in Rust, Germany. WHD is an opportunity for internet hosting organisations to come together to explore innovative solutions and to discuss issues concerning internet hosting. There were many and diverse seminars, offering such things as: ideas …
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Mar 22 2013
Cautionary Tale – Domain Registration
A customer registered a .co.uk domain for respectable educational site but did not take the option of acquiring the also available .com at the same time. Since getting their website up and running, someone else has now registered the .com and placed a very different website on it, probably to try to elicit a lot …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2013/03/cautionary-tale-domain-registration/
May 03 2012
New Law on Cookies (Cookie Law)
There is a new law coming into effect on 26 May relating to website privacy and effecting some UK websites. Nearly all websites use Cookies which puts information into people’s browsers when visiting a site. These cookies are used for remembering log in details, preferences, analytics and targeted advertising etc. The new law means that …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2012/05/new-law-on-cookies-cookie-law/