Small firms account for 98% of all national business.

Irish SMEs are set to miss out on a bumper €100m consumer spend on Black Friday as new figures reveal just 35% of SME websites can process payments online.

The number of .ie domain website names has topped 200,000 for the first time.

A worldwide intellectual property watchdog has ruled that an Irishman cannot keep the Linkedin.ie domain name after the employment network LinkedIn.com made a complaint.

The majority of small and medium enterprises in Ireland are not able to sell their products online.

More than 90% of SMEs cannot process online sales while six in every 10 cannot take orders online either.

The number of new companies established in July amounted to 1,014 — 24% up on the same month last year and the highest figure witnessed since 2008.

LAST year saw a healthy increase in companies taking a dot.ie address for their websites, an address which is ranked as one of the safest domains in the world.

Last year saw a jump of nearly 13% in the number of websites using the .ie domain.

The registry for Ireland’s official internet address, .ie, has reported that registrations for Ireland’s top level domain reached their highest ever total in a three-month period for the third quarter ending September, 2011.

LAST year saw a 13% increase in total registrations for ‘.ie’ online addresses, according to the IE Domain Registry (IEDR).

THE IE Domain Registry (IEDR) — the body that manages registration for Irish internet addresses — has launched a €100,000 ecommerce website development fund.

QUARTERLY registrations for dot.ie (.ie) online addresses topped the 10,000 mark for the first time during the first three months of this year.

A RISE in the number of people starting their own business helped boost profits at the IE Domain Registry (IEDR) last year.

THE number of dot.ie online registrations fell slightly, on a year-on-year basis, in the first half of the year, but a strong second quarter showed demand for domestic registrations remains strong.

THERE are a record 141,243 websites using the .ie domain name according to the latest figures from the IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the managedregistry for Ireland’s official internet address, .ie.

IRISH businesses have been warned to ignore unsolicited letters offering to update their company websites after it emerged a continental firm is attempting to scam them out of thousands of euro.

A price war has begun between the leading players in the area of dot.ie website address sales – resulting in the average price of a dot.ie domain name being reduced by 50%.

THE leading players in the area of dot.ie website address sales have begun a price war in the run-up to the end of the year – resulting in the average price of a dot.ie domain name being reduced by 50%.

Dublin: Ireland’s dot.ie internet domain address has been voted the safest national domain in Europe and the second-safest in the world by leading computer security company, McAfee.

A total of 9,398 .ie domain names were registered in the third quarter of this year, a rise of 15% on the same period last year, according to the IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the managed registry for Ireland’s internet address.

MORE than half of all the major websites selling electronic goods across Europe are breaking EU consumer law, including over a third of Irish sites, a European Commission survey has found.

REGISTRATIONS for dot.ie online domain addresses showed a net increase of 26.8% last year, according to the IE Domain Registry (IEDR).

The first three months of 2009 saw the highest-ever number of new .ie website addresses registered, despite the economic downturn, it was revealed today.

THE IE Domain Registry (IEDR) says there was a 23% jump in the number of .ie websites registered in Ireland in third quarter of this year compared to the same period last year.

The IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the organisation that manages Ireland’s internet domain, .ie, reports that 2007 saw continued growth in domains, additional price reductions, further infrastructure investment and a strengthening of the company’s financial position.

THE IE Domain Registry (IEDR) has initiated action against a website for actively promoting prostitution.

IRISH people can now be masters of their own internet domain.

Web surfers can now make a name for themselves on the internet by registering their own vanity websites on an Irish domain.

THE IE Domain Registry, the managed registry for Ireland’s official internet address .ie, today welcomed the results of the McAfee Site Advisor Report, which named the .ie domain name as the second safest domain name in the world.

IE Domain Registry, the managed registry for Ireland’s dot.ie domain names, has today announced a 13% price reduction for new domain registrations and renewals, with effect from January 1, 2007.

The company operating Ireland's domain registry service IE Domain Registry Ltd (IEDR) has announced after-tax operating profits of €865,000 for 2005.

The IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the managed registry for Ireland’s dot.ie domain names, has introduced its most significant price reduction to date.

Dot.ie registrations have increased by 53% so far this year.

The IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the managed registry for Ireland’s dot.ie domain names, today announced a 20% price reduction for new dot.ie domain registrations and renewals.

David Curtin, chief executive of the .IE Domain Registry, talks to David Clerkin.

Dot.ie internet domain registrations have now exceeded the 50,000 mark, according to the .IE Domain Registry (IEDR).

THE body responsible for controlling Irish-registered websites and email addresses has been stripped of its regulatory function less than a year after an investigation into alleged financial irregularities.

Communications Minister Dermot Ahern today announced that regulation and control of Ireland's domain name (.ie) is to be transferred to the Commission for Communications Regulation (Comreg).

David Curtin has been appointed as the new chief executive of IE Domain Registry (IEDR).