Archive | November, 2009

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Stop Stealing Images – Get Free Stock Photo Credits

By on November 29, 2009 in Marketing, Promotions, Tips

Just because it’s on the internet does not mean it’s free. You may be able to access plenty of content online at no cost, but that does not give you any right to (ab)use it as you see fit. Unfortunately when it comes to images a lot of people seem to think that you can [...]

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Silly Promos Are Go

By on November 27, 2009 in Blacknight, Domains, Marketing, Promotions

We’ve been running a series of discounts and promotions on a variety of domain extensions for the last couple of months… We’ve now added a $random factor into the equation. Well “equation” might not be the best word.. Let’s just call if the “mix”. At completely random times throughout the day (and night) we’ll be [...]

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To Be Or Not To Be – Register .be Domains In Our Super Discount Promo

By on November 19, 2009 in cctlds, Domains, Promotions

We’ve organised another domain name promotion in our massive end of year domain madness. Register OR transfer a .be (Belgium) domain name for a paltry €3 (€2.99 to be precise, but we’ll overlook the 1 cent!) Belgium is famous for its beer, food, comic characters (think TinTin) and for being at the heart of the [...]

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Internationalised Country Code Domains Spark Interest

By on November 16, 2009 in Blacknight, Domains, icann, IDN

IDN domains (internationalised domain names) . It’s a really horrible acronym, but once you get past that, the actual concept is a lot more interesting. If you follow the technology press you’ll have seen quite a lot of coverage of IDN domains in the last few weeks, as ICANN announced during the recent Seoul meeting [...]

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Talking Mobile

By on November 6, 2009 in Blacknight, Domains, dotmobi, Events, icann

While I was at the ICANN meeting in Seoul, South Korea, Pinkard Brand from DotMobi did a short video interview with me about .mobi and the mobile web: You’ll have to excuse the audio quality towards the end – there’s a motorbike or something which is a bit distracting! If you haven’t already got your [...]

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Save Money On Domains – Current Discounts

By on November 2, 2009 in afilias, cctlds, Domains, dotinfo, dotmobi, dottel, eurid, Marketing, Promotions

Over the last couple of months we’ve announced several special offers on domain names.  You can also use the shorter and more memorable http://domainoffers.me to get here ALL domain registrations include FREE DNS and FREE domain forwarding (both standard and frame forwarding) There are no silly hidden charges – what you pay for is what [...]

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ICANN Seoul Hangover

By on November 1, 2009 in Domains, Events, icann, IDN, newtlds

I’m just back from the ICANN meeting in Seoul, South Korea. I had planned on posting with updates during the week, but, as you can see, that didn’t happen. Why? Simply put – it was an incredibly busy meeting, both in general and for me personally. I’m now back in Ireland struggling to get over [...]

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