Why did we register DonegalCreameries.com ?

Between June 1999 and March 2005 we were shareholders in Donegal Creameries. I had a good relationship with John Keon the then CEO, and had the Creameries on the MolecularFarming Database. In fact I arranged discussion on a possible co-operation deal with a Canadian company which could have resulted in Donegal breeding a blight-free potato. The deal didn't work out. During that time I noticed that the DonegalCreameries.com domain had been registered by someone else. John said, in one of our meetings, that the registerer had offered the Creameries the domain, but wanted a "fortune" for it, so they had decided to go with the dot.ie.

In the meantime I attended the AGMs of the Company, usually held in July. In early July 2004 I noticed that the DonegalCreameries.com domain had become free. I told Dominic Kelly that it had at the AGM on July 7th 2004, and advised that the company register it immediately. I also mentioned this to the Chairman, Lexie Tinney, and told him to remind Dominic later.

In mid August I noticed that DonegalCreameries.com still had not been registered by the Company. As a shareholder I thought that I'd better register the domain, if nothing else since I was still potentially dealing with the Company, and still had the An Grianan farm in the Database.

A few months afterwards the new CEO, Ian Ireland, was appointed. I met with him to see if he wished to continue with having Donegal Creameries on the Database, and he said that he'd rather not, so I removed the farm, and company from the Database, although it remained there as a potential "non-gm" contract growing partner for several years.