December 2009 Archives

On behalf of everyone at Blacknight have a Happy New Year!

Let's hope it's a good one for everyone.

Want a .eu or a .im domain name at a rockbottom price?

The special offer pricing on both .eu and .im domain names ends on December 31st 2009.

We are currently offering .eu domain registration for a mere €2.95 and .im domain registration for €4.95.

Both of these offers will end on December 31st.

Don't feel like grabbing domains before the New Year? No need to worry.
Our offer on .com registration and transfer has been extended through January.

Check out all our current domain offers on domainoffers.me

It's Christmas day, the day that turkeys everywhere live in dread of....

On behalf of everyone here at Blacknight we wish you all a very Happy and Peaceful Christmas.

We don't do traditional cards very well here.

(Well that's not entirely true.. we do send out a few, but not that many.)

Let's face it, while the "thought" may "count" you can end up finishing Christmas week with a load of Christmas cards from people you barely know and while it's a nice idea it's probably not all that memorable. (At least that's my rather cynical take on it all .. )

So what about doing something at Christmas that would really have some kind of impact on our clients?

So here's what we've done.

If you order a one year .ie domain registration or transfer and use the promotion code "chrimbo" (lowercase, no caps or spacing) you will be able to walk away with a .ie domain for a mere €2.99 ex-VAT (or transfer an existing .ie domain from somewhere else)

There are a couple of limits to the offer:

• The offer is only applicable to the first 99 orders with the coupon code
• The offer will expire on December 23rd 2009 when the IEDR close for Christmas whether we've received 99 orders or not
  
• The offer only applies to 1 year domain registrations OR transfers ie. you cannot use it to register a domain for 2 years
• No we won't apply the discount if you haven't used the code, so please don't ask.

UPDATE: This offer is now over - it was completely sold out

 

Since Christmas is almost upon us here's a reminder of our opening hours:

24 December 2009 - open until 1400 UTC
25 December 2009 - closed - emergency out of hours support only
26 December 2009 - closed - emergency out of hours support only
27 December 2009 - closed - emergency out of hours support only
28 December 2009 - closed - emergency out of hours support only
29 December 2009 - normal hours
30 December 2009 - normal hours
31 December 2009 - normal hours
1 January 2010  - closed - emergency out of hours support only
2 January 2010 - closed - emergency out of hours support only
3 January 2010 - closed - emergency out of hours support only
4 January 2010 - normal hours


Please note:
If you are registering or transferring IE domain names bear in mind that the IE domain  registry will be closed from December 23rd, so they will not be processing new domains OR transfers from December 24th to January 4th. Any orders placed during that period will be queued.

The price of .com (and .net) domain names will be going up on July 1st 2010.

This is not a price increase being set by ourselves or any other registrar - it's an increase that is being set by Verisign, who run both .com and .net.

As a result of this price increase we've decided to extend our offer on .com domain names until January 31st 2010.

So if you want to register a new .com domain name or switch your domain name to us from another registrar, then the time is right.

You can register a .com domain name for 1 year or up to 10 years.

.com domains are only €4.99 (ex-VAT) per year with Blacknight until January 31st 2010.

Check out our other domain name offers here

Blacknight is an ICANN accredited registrar.

Apologies for the slightly cheesy post title, but it was really hard to resist!

Some domains are just plain cool and useful.

When you see a .fm (dotFM) domain you think "radio" or "music" or just plain "audio".

If you were going to be launching a podcast or music service, then .fm would be the obvious choice.

Notable users of .fm include the likes of last.fm, webmasterradio.fm and services like Blip.fm

So we're delighted to be able to do something special with the .fm domain pricing.

We've done a couple of things.

First off we've cut the price - and not by couple of euro - we've halved it!

We were charging 99 euro for a one year registration, but we're now offering a .fm domain registration for 49 euro (ex-VAT) - that's roughly US$72

Secondly, we're now offering .fm registrations for up to 5 years.

If you're a Wordpress user Podpress seems to be a popular choice for handling podcasts, while MovableType users can use the application's builtin support.

Of course if you're planning on starting a podcast then you'll need some hosting to do with your nice shiny new domain, so why not check out our Minimus hosting plan?

It's the perfect plan for anyone starting a podcast site, as it gives you both the space and the bandwidth you'll need.  (remember, all those audio files will need plenty of space over time)

So what are you waiting for?

You can simply search for an available .fm domain name from any page on our site or using the search box up the top right of this site.

Find a domain you like, add it to your cart and you'll be up and running in a matter of minutes.

Check out our other insane prices on domain names here

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• TubeRadio.fm turns YouTube into a powerful music player (downloadsquad.com)

Christmas is coming that little bit earlier this year.

From now until December 31st 2009 we have dropped the price on IE domain registrations and transfers to €16.95 / year. (The discount will appear in the cart, so no coupon codes required)

You can register a .ie domain name for 1 to 10 years - your choice.

You don't need to host with us to get the pricing

You can order as many domains as you like

ALL domains get free DNS services, so if you want to point the domain at an existing site, IP address, Google Apps or whatever you like, you can do that too at no extra cost. (Check out our video tutorials on managing DNS etc.)

Every single day we see phishing emails targetting our clients. While some are amateurish or so irrelevant that they are unlikely to dupe the recipients, others are very carefully crafted.

In the last couple of weeks a number of these phishing emails have been targetting Google Adwords advertisers.

The latest one, a sample of which is below, is quite nasty, and while some browsers are now flagging the site it links to as a phish, not all are.




If you get any odd looking emails from any company do not click on the links in the email body.

Go directly to the company's site instead.

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• Cheap EU Domains - What Would You Do To Get One? (blacknight.com)
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• European Hosting Giant Launches Huge Sale on .mobi and .im Domain Names (prweb.com)
• DotCM Now Live (blacknight.com)
• European Hosting Giant Launches Huge Sale on .mobi and .im Domain Names (blacknight.com)

You might remember that we finally got our logo onto the side of a car ...

And here it is again:



Yes - I am enjoying seeing our logo on the side of a car. And? :)



It may not be a Formula 1 car, but the Hindustan Ambassador is still "ok" by me..

Anyway the Karma Enduro fundraiser rally for charity was held in India and the team we sponsored survived in one piece. Head over to the girls' site to read about their adventures and why they did.

So our latest little experiment more or less proved what we'd already guessed - people like .com domain names and want discounts on them.

What was interesting, however, was what came in second  and third place.

I'm glad to see that so many people are interested in .me and it's also nice to see that some people like .eu.

Here's the results graph (with explanation) at time of writing. The poll is still open,  but since we now have more than 100 votes it's pretty clear which domain extensions people wanted to see discounted.

The poll was run using Twtpoll which is a nice little service for running polls. While it's obviously aimed at Twitter users, there's no reason why you can't use it without Twitter (or outside it)

Watch this space (and Facebook / Twitter) for announcements of special discounts on .com (and maybe .me too .. )

Every time we run an offer people ask us if we're going to do an offer on something else.

Now getting feedback is always helpful, but it makes me wonder if we're running the kind of offers we should be running or not ...

So, just as a totally unscientific experiment, we're asking you to tell us what you would like to see.

Head on over to the poll and tell us which of the domain extensions (from the list)  you'd like to see us do a crazy promotion on before Christmas.

(You can find a list of our current promotions here)

DNS is a wonderful thing.
Honest!
Unfortunately, while it may be the glue that binds everything together (excuse the puns!) , it is one of those things that really confuses people.

CENTR have released a really nice and simple guide to how it works which is aimed at "normal" people

Have a look for yourself:



Now, does it make more sense to you?

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• Check Your DNS Easily (blacknight.com)

Are you looking for a deal? Then maybe you've come to the right place!

In the runup to Christmas 2009 we're going to be doing a number of extra special offers and discounts.

As already announced, we're doing some random offers throughout the day and night via Twitter and Facebook.

We'll be adding to those offers with some extra offers between now and Christmas Eve - so keep an eye out.

So what are we offering today you might ask ...

How about a nice little offer on .com domains?

From now until December 31st we've reduced the price on .com transfers to €6.20 - you'll notice the discount when you add  a .com transfer to your cart.

The co.uk registry - Nominet - just announced that they've registered their 8 millionth domain name, so to celebrate we're dropping the price to 3 euro / year until December 31st on co.uk registrations

Blacknight is an ICANN accredited registrar