Archive | February, 2010

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WordCamp Ireland Next Weekend

By on February 28, 2010 in Blogging, business, Events

Next weekend Kilkenny will be playing host to Wordcamp Ireland. We’re the headline sponsor, though admittedly I’ve been a bit remiss in promoting our involvement! In any case the event runs over two days, with three tracks: Intro track Blogger’s track Tech track The schedule includes some very interesting topics regardless of your level of [...]

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Want A Personal Domain Name? Why .me Makes Sense

By on February 27, 2010 in Domains, dotme

If you want to get your own “slice” of the internet to setup a blog or to publish your CV then why not look at .me? Unlike some country code domain names .me is completely free from restrictions – so you can register a .me domain name as easily as you can register a .com. [...]

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Upcoming Change To Pending IE Domain Registrations

By on February 27, 2010 in iedr

The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) have informed us of a small change that they will be introducing to their processes. Currently any registration or modification request is valid for 30 days, so you have 30 days to provide the supporting documentation. As of April 8 2010 this period will be reduced to 27 days We [...]

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Get Your Own TV!

By on February 25, 2010 in Domains, Promotions

We’ve got yet another nice little promotion to share with you. This time round it’s on .tv domain names! Use the coupon code: tvpromo (no space – cASe SeNSitive) and you’ll be able to get a .tv domain for a mere €19.99 ex-VAT You will be able to register a .tv domain name at this [...]

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We Need Your Feedback!

By on February 24, 2010 in Blacknight, Feedback

UPDATE 28/2: New screenshot added belowThe Blacknight hosting platform is very powerful and has a lot of fantastic features. However, the control panel is not perfect and we are all too aware of this. The control panel vendors, Parallels, have been working closely with us to improve aspects of the system so that: You are [...]

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Get Serious With .Biz

By on February 19, 2010 in Domains, Promotions

One of the things we like to do here at Blacknight is to bring you special offers on domains (and hosting). But we also like to focus on domain extensions that you might overlook. So what about .biz? The .biz domain extension was launched to help business find a space online. Sure, you could register [...]

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Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards – Nominations Open

By on February 17, 2010 in Events

Nominations are now open for the 2010 IIA NetVisionary Awards. Unlike a LOT of awards the NetVisionary Awards are NOT “pay to play”. Anyone can nominate anybody they think is deserving and then the public ultimately decides. Categories available include: Best Business BloggerBest Business PodcasterBest Online Financial ServiceBest Online TraderBest Use of Social Mediae-Government AwardInnovation [...]

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The best damn domain search you will find online

By on February 15, 2010 in Domains

We’ve all wasted hours of our time trying to grab Internet domains that are already registered. That’s why we launched Dropped.ie – to display on one page all the domains around a single word that are available to register or buy right now. But not content with that, we’ve added a semantic element to the [...]

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Beat The Valentine’s Day Blues With A Domain

By on February 13, 2010 in cctlds, Domains, dotinfo, eurid, iedr, Promotions

Valentine’s Day might be a wonderful concept if you’ve got a “better half”. If you don’t, however, it can be a really annoying day. For the last few weeks the shops have been trying to tempt people with cards, gifts and flowers… So what better way to deal with the Valentine’s Day blues than by [...]

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Good News For Mobi

By on February 13, 2010 in Domains, dotmobi, News

Earlier this week DotMobi announced that they had been acquired by Afilias. We’ve been working closely with both .mobi and Afilias so we’re absolutely delighted to hear their news. I’d personally like to congratulate Trey Harvin and his team – they’re a great bunch to work with and we’re always delighted to hear of their [...]

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Some .ie Eye Candy

By on February 10, 2010 in Marketing

To promote our current .ie domain offer (€14.99 for one year registration OR transfer) we got James from Forbairt Media to do some pixel herding. I’m really happy with the result: Leaderboard is 728 pixels wide, so you’ll have to click on it to see it full size – sorry! We’ve also got a “standard” [...]

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Dropped.ie – Now With Extra Funky Semantic Search

By on February 7, 2010 in aftermarket, Domains, iedr, verisign

When we launched dropped.ie a couple of months ago it was aimed at helping people find good domain names to register. We limited it, however, to .ie domain names only. Of course we know that people don’t always want a .ie domain name and, in many cases, the extra paperwork for getting a .ie domain [...]

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