Jaimie Dobson Internet Consultant

Time To Liberate the Web

A new report called ‘The Liberalisation of the Internet’ explores how the Internet will change as a result of it being liberalised and the effect this will have on businesses and consumers.
Next year in 2010, the geography of the Internet is set to expand significantly, as the body that oversees the structure of the Internet: [...]

Grab Your Twitter Name before Someone Else Does

If you’re protective about your company’s brand name and image then you’ve probably already got various permutations of their equivalent domain names including the all important .co.uk and .com ones. But what about your Twitter ID?

For a long time now any Internet consultant or web designer worth their salt, have being advising their clients to [...]

What’s in a Name? Choose Your Domain Name Wisely

Your website’s domain name e.g. www.yourdomainname.co.uk says a lot about who you are and what your business does and is the ‘location address’ for your website on the web.
So, if your business is looking to get online for the first time with its own website, it’s worth putting a lot of thought into the choice [...]

Domain Disputes

My business runs a couple of managed servers which are dedicated exclusively to our clients. Across these servers we host about 250 websites which between them have nearly 500 domain names mapped to them.
That’s an awful lot of hosting accounts to manage and an even greater number of domain names to control on behalf of [...]

Domain Disputes and Cybersquatting

It looks like two of our clients may come to blows over a case of cybersquatting which came to our attention last week.
Here’s what transpired (the client’s names and URLs are not given out for obvious reasons):

Director A of client company A Ltd leaves the company under a bit of a cloud.
After a few months, [...]