RIP.ie bought by the Irish Times

Usual misinformed crap

Rip is an "advertising" site. They make their substantial profit (,reduced last couple of years because larger salaries and pensions were paid) from charging for the notices - just like myhome.ie charges for listing a property.

If myhome started to charge to look at the house adverts would anyone pay? - very very few. This would lead to total destruction of main revenue stream.

EXACT same with rip.ie - it's very basic business, but you'll will find people who will search for a negative in anything even if it makes no sense whatsoever.

Irish times also owns myhome

Anyone know how much it was sold for ??

RIP is an excellent resource.

I hope the IT take care of the archive.

I tried to get my brother's death into RIP but was told it could only be put up by an undertaker. I put a notice in the Irish Times but they also wanted confirmation from the Australian undertaker. I thought RIP might just 'copy and paste' but no.

I had a feeling something was afoot last year I think, I had asked here about it. I used to have several different options available to me on RIP.ie which was brilliant and I had a number of family names come up. It seems to be the norm now to include names of children, siblings, in-laws, all very helpful for the family tree. But when it changed I couldn't get alerts for particular parishes as I did before. Hope IT improves things.

Usual misinformed crap

Rip is an "advertising" site. They make their substantial profit (,reduced last couple of years because larger salaries and pensions were paid) from charging for the notices - just like myhome.ie charges for listing a property.

If myhome started to charge to look at the house adverts would anyone pay? - very very few. This would lead to total destruction of main revenue stream.

EXACT same with rip.ie - it's very basic business, but you'll will find people who will search for a negative in anything even if it makes no sense whatsoever.

Irish times also owns myhome

I know what you mean.

Here is An Irish Independent article

Think it will be the death of the site

I posted the below in the Liveline thread:

I'm hoping someone creates a copy site, and announces the death of rip.ie, on RIP.ie.

100 euros is taking the piss to be honest. I have just been on rip.ie and in Dublin, there were 49 deaths recorded on 17/12/2024. That would JUST cover the county of Dublin, That means the Irish times would be earning 4900 from Dublin alone - per day.

Yes, websites are not free, but there is nothing fancy on their site. You'd need, charitably, one dedicated backend server, one dedicated front end server? You can get a dedicated server from Blacknight for 150 a month. So bringing in easily 200k a month, and costing 300 a month in server rental.

Anything to do with funerals is expensive. I think we got charged 50 quid for the undertaker to just put up the Rip.ie note. People ask no questions because its usually an upsetting time. IMO, this is a very cynical move by the Irish Times and I do predict the site becoming much less popular.

Hopefully. Pure greed.

Simple to replicate. And easy promote.

Time to launch my clone site, call it mournhub.ie and charge €20 a listing!

I'll be richer than the Coulsons in weeks!

Lads, you will never guess who owns the mournhub.ie domain?!?

Well played RIP.ie, well played!

Is it a charge per notice or a yearly charge for funeral directors?

The article says €100 fee for funeral directors to list death notices, not to list a death notice.

How much is it to put a death notice in one of the national newspapers?