Author Archives: Pete

Registry ready to take on the world

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Pete

Just read an article about how local domain name registrar AusRegistry has taken its first global expansion steps and has signed a deal to provide services in the Middle East. Now, I think that it’s great that an Australian domain … Continue reading →

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Long or Short Domain Names

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Pete

Just had a client ask me to register a new domain name for them and it was roughly 40 characters long. Now it can be a good thing to try and incorporate some keywords that you want to rank for … Continue reading →

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The Webhosting Year in Review

Posted on December 31, 2007 by Pete

This blog is only about 4 months old, but as a company, Ingenuity has been around for 4 YEARS. Over this time we’ve seen a lot of things happen in the web hosting industry. We’ve seen dozens of different online … Continue reading →

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Upgrading from IIS/ASP to Apache/PHP

Posted on December 31, 2007 by Pete

I’ve always lent more towards OpenSource software as I find it to be more standardized and reliable. If you run into problems there are literally thousands of articles where people provide detailed and helpful information and what’s even better is … Continue reading →

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One MILLION Australian Domains

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Pete

Australia sees surge in domain names with the number of .au registrations predicted to hit the one million mark this month. Since 2002 the number of commercial .au names has risen by over 750,000 and Adrian Kinderis, managing director of … Continue reading →

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ICANN picks Kiwi chairman

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Pete

The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) selected Peter Dengate Thrush, 52, over telecommunications expert Roberto Gaetano, of Italy, to head the nine-year-old agency tasked with handling domain names and issues related to allowing internet … Continue reading →

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Networking Workshop about Networking

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Pete

Last Thursday night I attended a Networx Marketing event on the topic of networking. Lisa Butler, Director of Paragon Associates and author of Networking Exposed was the guest speaker and lead us through the basics of how to network more … Continue reading →

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Networking – Sensory Marketing

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Pete

Last Wednesday evening I attended a Networx Marketing event on Sensory Marketing – Branding through Experiences. The evening was held at Riverlife providing us with a beautiful backdrop of the CBD at night and some very tasty nibblies provided by … Continue reading →

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Networking – Maximising the Media

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Pete

I attend a monthly business networking group – Networx Marketing and a couple of weeks ago I attended one of their events about Maximising the Media. The venue was the Brisbane Powerhouse and speakers included Emma Blackwood (a news editor … Continue reading →

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Windows Webserver Outage

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Pete

Over the past 24 hours (September 3 2007) an unplanned webserver outage occurred. Our Windows web server experienced RAID issues which we spent a number of hours trying to fix. After little positive progress, instead of inconveniencing our clients any … Continue reading →

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