Welcome to the website of Irish mobile, and web, app developer, Cathal Garvey.
IrelandOffline have, for years, been highlighting the lack of broadband in Ireland. It’s no secret that the biggest source of Broadband here is DSL, and the vast majority of that is supplied by eircom. Recently in the media eircom have been dishing out a lot of self praise, claiming that they’ve almost done all they have to do, and that the rest is down to the Government to finance.
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Today, our Minister for Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey (or “Dialup Dempsey has he’s commonly known, thanks to his inaction on Broadband rollout page), announced that the Irish Cellular Industry Association (ICIA) launched a new code of practice. Let’s look at it a little closer!
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ResellerClub (aka DirectI), are currently advertising .org domains for $1.49 (wholesale/reseller rate). You don’t see any * to point to restrictions, just a blanket $1.49 offer price (for 1 year only). They’ve emailed resellers about it, they’ve designed new banner graphics for the promo, they let you search for the .org domain, add it to your basket and enter customer details.
THEN, and ONLY then, do they change (without explanation) they up the charge to $6.99 in your cart. Again no *, or footnote (or big red warning!) to explain this.
So looking up the support site (clicking on the banner ads will bring you to the wrong section of the right page), one will see that the offer is restricted to registrants from “the Latin American/Caribbean, Chinese/Southeast Asian and African Countries”!!!
Very dirty trick, if you ask me. Very misleading. Although DirectI are themselves based there, their presence is very much US. I’d love to see a break down of their registrants’ countries, but I’d be very surprised if EU/US didn’t make up the vast majority of their registrants/customers.
Liberty Global‘s UPC who now own both Chorus Ireland and NTL Ireland, may have their work cut out for them, as Sky announce they now have 407,000 digital subscribers in Ireland.
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It seems Register.com, and the domains it serves are all unavailable at the time of posting.
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