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NZ Domain Names – They say Possession is 9/10th of the Law

We would like to remind all .NZ Domain Name Registrants how important it is to enter accurate details with registering .NZ domain names, and keeping that information up to date. One of the biggest problems we see is when a company hires a third party to setup a website, and the domain gets registered in […]

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Happy New Year…New Years Resolutions…

We would like to wish all our clients a very Happy New Year, and hope you all had a great Christmas break. The year has gotten off to a busy start, and it is no more busy than for Telecom NZ (which they subcontract out to YahooXtra), whose email service appears to have been hacked […]

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Email Performance and Future Upgrades

Email is a service that has become so ubiquitous in daily life that it is rarely given a second thought. That is, until it stops working. Unfortunately, on November 12th this year, that’s exactly what happened for a number of Lounge Network email users, who were hosted on the Auckland based email cluster. All Web […]

Are all NZ Web Hosts suitable for business use?

There are many NZ web hosting companies out there, but the question many businesses may ask is, are they all suitable to host my businesses website and email on? The short answer is NO, they aren’t. Not all web hosting is the same quality, as not all web hosting has the same redundancy, backups and […]

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Cloud company Xero now THIRD largest company on NZX – UPDATED

UPDATE: Xero is now worth more than Telecom We would like to extend our Congratulations to Wellington based company Xero, for today  becoming the third most valuable company on the NZX (New Zealand Stock Exchange). Xero now has a market capitalisation of over 4 billion dollars. Only Auckland Airport, and Fletcher Building have a higher […]

NZ Web Hosting and comparing Apples with Apples

Choosing the best NZ web hosting company for your businesses website and email can be tough, as there are so many choices. However not all NZ web hosting is the same quality. Infact much web hosting is very average quality, and not really suitable for New Zealand business use. We have put together the following […]

Buying and selling NZ Web Hosting Businesses

We regularly get contacted by small New Zealand web hosting businesses, looking to sell their web hosting business and client base to us. Unfortunately many web hosts that do contact us, do not have sustainable long term business models, and don’t really make any money. Many of these unsustainable web hosting businesses are setup by […]

Is your NZ Web Host a real Kiwi Web Host?

There are many web hosting providers now operating in the NZ market. However we have noticed that although many of them appear to be NZ businesses, many in fact aren’t. There are even some that have no physical New Zealand presence at all, yet they use a .NZ domain name and strong New Zealand branding […]

Major changes to .NZ Domain names coming soon..

The Council of InternetNZ has just approved a policy proposal to allow domain names to be registered at the second level in the .nz domain name space. This means that there is a very strong likelihood that you will be able to soon register NZ domains, using just .NZ on the end. For example you […]