The Blog
We like to share our thoughts on certain subjects - domains, online tech, current affairs etc. We'll try to keep it as active as possible with regular updates, it will be both satirical and serious at times.
Thursday, 24 December 2015 07:20
Exactly Why Nominet Shouldn't Be A Membership Entity
I watch with bemusement the actions of some members of Nominet in response to the latest price hike and the dropping of the multi year discount on the registration and renewals of domain names. First of all I can't really see why Nominet is raising more money, I can't see…
Tuesday, 22 December 2015 06:04
We have just gone Viral
We are happy to announce that we have just managed to acquire the domain name "Viral.co.uk" Unlike a lot of other names in our portfolio, we actually have plans to develop this name into a real world business that will grow into an exciting on line advertising brand. We have…
Tuesday, 18 August 2015 02:58
Daily Mail acquires DailyMail.com
The Daily Mail seems to finally have got its hands on the domain name DailyMail.com. We have not seen any reports of any announced sale of the domain name so we can only speculate. What seems to be certain is that the DailyMail.com url is now resolving to DailyMail.co.uk/ushome/ and…
Wednesday, 22 July 2015 21:51
That - is now finished
Many of you may be aware that we used to operate from the website that.co.uk and then subsequently that.uk - today we closed those sites and moved completely back to GreyWing. We haven't used the GreyWing brand since 2010 but now we are back - this time as the .uk…
Tuesday, 21 July 2015 21:55
Does Radio Advertising Work?
We wanted to share with people our recent "toe in the water" experiences of advertising our latest new project on local radio. Our local area is Barnsley, South Yorkshire and our local radio station is Dearne FM. The new project we decided to advertised was the website was.co.uk which dealt…
Monday, 20 July 2015 23:40
Ashley Maddison Hack - The Solution Is Simple
The recent hack involving highly confidential data from the adult site Ashley Madison leaves me somewhat confused as to why the company is struggling to deal with it. Ashley Madison is some kind of promiscuous sexual site where individuals agree to meet and have affairs. Of course with sites like…
Saturday, 18 July 2015 10:35
We'll stick with Joomla thanks
We have recently been contemplating the switch from Joomla! to WordPress as our preferred site build option. Joomla! has served us well for the last eight years and has been an amazingly successful platform, but Joomla 3 didn't seem to work for us, so we were contemplating the switch to…
Friday, 17 July 2015 11:47
Will .uk become dominant over .co.uk?
We often get asked about whether it is right to upgrade from .co.uk to .uk, and what our views on the subject are. What we have found over the last few months is not really all that surprising when you think about it. We have decided to share a little…