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I couldn't agree more.

Back then IEDR had a "no generics" rule. Since "Boards" was effectively the company's trading name, it was accepted. The problems of people trying to get a .IE domain name back then were legendary. The early WHOIS for boards.ie used to show t/a Boards, I think. The application to register as a new company for Spin Solutions Limited was on 18/May/1999. A company had a better chance of getting its .IE domain name then. There's a Boards business name registration for a body corporate (company) with a date of 14/June/1999. The CRO records generally show when a business name registration was issued by the CRO but not when the name started to be used. That's generally on the certificate details, I think.

Boards.ie existed in 1999. There are posts here from 1999 but the search only goes back to 30/June/1999.

Unlike the heavily automated process of today, a registrant for a .IE domain name then had to provide proof of entitlement before a domain name could be registered. The words 'cloud' or clouds' would have been caught by that No Generics rule. It was a very clever move by DeVore.

Regards…jmcc

Still jumping like a kangaroo for me on Fire tablet and on desktop but not as bad on the latter.

Fine but don't complain when lots of us have money available that Board's doesn't want. I don't know what you mean by wrong plan but we get free phone use & 20 euro per month to spend on other things. It's a pretty good plan to me.

Is there an amnesty on forum bans for those who subscribe? I'm banned from one forum and it's a block to me subscribing and I'm sure quite a few others.

I use boards less - only because i don't get the summary email of thread updates like i used to.
Its a really basic thing all social media things do - email you when a thread you are following updates to get you back.
I would guess that is a big loss of engagement right there that could be fixed and cannot understand why that was not a priority in the new software.
Separate emails for each post is way too much emails and i had turn that off.

These been a litany of usability bugs and issues which make it difficult to use.

There probably isn't. But there are cheaper 30 day contracts.

On topic, I don't get the logic of not doing something because it'll only make a small bit of money. If boards is on the brink, then do everything to make money, everywhere.