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That's according to the latest dot ie Domain Profile Report, published by the IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the company responsible for the management and administration of Ireland’s official internet address, .ie.

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The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) recently announced a proposed policy change to allow the registration of .ie domain names as Gaeilge (in Irish).

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Website domain names with 'fadas' will be available later this year, according to IE Domain Registry (IEDR).

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The registration period for .ie web addresses with one-letter and two-letter domains – such as aa.ie or t.ie – opens from today, the IE Domain Registry (IEDR) has announced.

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15 Irish SMEs share €150,000 OPTIMISE Fund - Madinks Winner!

IE Domain Registry announces 15 Irish SMEs and micro-businesses to receive share of €150,000 OPTIMISE Fund to improve online presence and e-commerce –

The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) has announced the 15 Irish SMEs and micro-enterprises that will receive a share of its €150,000 OPTIMISE Fund following a nationwide outreach campaign.

This year’s 15 OPTIMISE Fund recipients are a diverse range of businesses, from an award-winning destination garden centre, a menswear boutique and an outdoor adventure holiday specialist to an on-demand laundry service, a family-run group tour operator and a ‘Living Café’. The businesses are spread across the country with locations in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Mayo, Waterford and Wicklow.

The 15 OPTIMISE Fund recipients are:

GriffinsGardenCentre.ie (Cork; award-winning destination garden centre)

WalkShoes.ie (Cork; family footwear business)

TheOldMillStores.ie (Cork; retailers of design-led homewares and gifts)

Salingers.ie (Cork; menswear boutique)

Eirechrom.ie (Cork; mass spectrometry specialists for clinical research)

Adventure-Holidays.ie (Wicklow; outdoor adventure and activity holiday specialists)

CleanFreaks.ie (Dublin; on-demand service company for laundry, ironing, dry cleaning, alterations and shoe repairs)

DayToursUnplugged.ie (Dublin; family-run tour operator offering relaxed and informal group tours from Dublin)

GPMI-ltd.ie (Dublin; suppliers of packaging, print and LED systems solutions)

Madinks.ie (Dublin; self-funded, e-commerce start-up, offering low-cost printer ink cartridges and LaserJet toner cartridges)

PhysioExtra.ie (Dublin; two multi-disciplinary clinics in Dublin with a wide range of services and a community outreach programme to promote health and fitness)

Olytico.ie (Dublin; social media monitoring and analysis agency)

TheGaiety.ie (Galway and Mayo; husband and wife owned vintage and antiques store)

HookandLadder.ie (Limerick and Waterford; ‘Living Café’ with a café, cookery school and furniture and home accessories store all under one roof)

TotalShave.ie (Mayo; online retailer of the Irish-made Total Shaving Solution)

Each of the 15 recipients of this year’s OPTIMISE Fund will now receive practical tools, training and services up to the value of €10,000 to enhance their existing websites and expand their online offering to include such tools as e-commerce.

This year’s 15 OPTIMISE Fund recipients were chosen following an online public vote that determined 10 of the OPTIMISE recipients, with the remaining five businesses selected by an independent judging panel. This year’s judging panel was chaired by Conall Ó Móráin (Today FM’s Sunday Business Show), Keith Bohanna (Near Future), Alan Sherlock (SFA) and Ronan Smith (AIB).

David Curtin, Chief Executive of the IEDR, said: “This was the most successful year of the OPTIMISE Fund to date. We received an incredible response from Irish SMEs and micro-businesses, all of whom recognise the genuine opportunity that exists to reach new audiences and increase online sales through an expanded and improved web presence. As the economy continues to recover, the SME sector cannot overlook the value of e-commerce in converting new business. We look forward to continuing to work with Irish SMEs through the OPTIMISE Fund to grow and improve this important facet of their businesses.”

The OPTIMISE Fund was established by the IEDR in 2011 following research that showed a low level of e-commerce activity on Irish SMEs’ websites. Now in its fifth year, the OPTIMISE Fund has provided funding to 60 Irish SMEs and micro-businessses.

Link: https://www.iedr.ie/2015/07/15-irish-smes-share-e150000-optimise-fund/

Blog: https://www.madinks.ie

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It's campaign time, and we need your vote!  Madinks has been short listed for the 2015 IEDR Optimise Fund, and we need as many votes as possible to win our campaign.  As a new ecommerce start-up we have invested heavily in our technology platform.  Madinks offers customers a unique user experience by simplifying the online ordering process.  We hope to introduce new technologies such as an optical recognition app and improved search functionality.  In order to do this we need your help to win the Optimise Fund and help develop upon our existing technologies to improve the customer experience and further enhance our ecommerce platform.

Please click on the link below and vote for us to help deliver a more robust and customer focused service.  Thank you as always for your support.

https://www.iedr.ie/optimise-fund-2015-vote/?contest=photo-detail&photo_id=1412

Madinks was set up to provide customers with the best prices online for printer ink cartridges and laserjet toner cartridges.  Our competitive pricing and unique ecommerce platform have helped us deliver an award winning website and first rate customer experience.  We deliver all our orders next business day throughout Ireland, and all our printer cartridge products include a three year warranty.

Madinks is a self-funded ecommerce start-up, that offers customers the best prices on the market today for printer ink cartridges and LaserJet toner cartridges. We have developed a state of the art website which focuses on the customer experience to make shopping on line as hassle free as possible. Our website has simplified the online shopping experience by helping customers identify their printer model and correct printer cartridges in two easy steps! We hope to take this process a step further by designing our optical recognition app, which will greatly speed up the ordering process and help consumers identify their printer with a simple photograph. The Optimise fund offers us the opportunity to further enhance the customer experience and create a unique selling platform which will help consumers identify products in a faster and more reliable way. We hope to evolve our digital selling platform to encourage Irish consumers to shop online. Presently almost 75% of the revenue spent by Irish consumers online leaves the country. We believe new advancements in Irish ecommerce will ultimately improve the customer experience and encourage more Irish consumers to shop locally online. At Madinks we pride ourselves on delivering digital retail excellence through advancements in Technology. We are constantly striving to further develop our ecommerce platforms and deliver the Irish customer a unique online selling experience. We believe Ireland can produce some of the best online retailers in the world, and only through further investment in the Irish technology sector will it be possible for us to reach our full potential. A vote for us, is a vote for change! Help us deliver digital excellence, and we will change the dynamics of shopping online in Ireland!

For further information please visit https://www.madinks.ie

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The IE Domain Registry (IEDR), which is responsible for the management and administration of Ireland's .ie Internet address, said it expects intense competition for the new short addresses, particularly in cases where more than one company uses the same t

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Source: James Larkin’s blog post on domain provider Blacknight’s website.

According to the little counter on the bottom of IEDR‘s website, over 20,000 .ie domains have been registered this year alone.  That figure is part of the 195,838 Irish domains registered in total 195,838 (at time of publishing).

Registering a domain in Ireland as a .ie address is done by a ‘class’ and ‘category’ system, with a number of domain registration companies listed on the IEDR website.

Source: James Larkin’s blog post on domain provider Blacknight’s website.

‘The IEDR formed at University College Dublin, however in 2000 it became a private company. The IEDR has no shareholders, the company is owned by members who are the directors.’ 

Infographic credits to the IEDR and James Larkin’s blogpost on blacknight.com

Technology | 2014’s .ie domain registrations pass the 20,000 mark According to the little counter on the bottom of IEDR's website, over 20,000 .ie domains have been registered this year alone.