Tomorrow, January 12th 2012 ICANN will open the application window for new TLDs. What on earth does that mean? Companies, organisations, groups and even cities will be applying to run their own domain name extension. What is a domain name extension? It’s the bit on the right of the dot (“.”). For example, blacknight.com [...]
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Getting A Domain Name That’s Already Registered
Choosing the right domain name for your business is, arguably, one of the most important decisions you will need to make. If your business domain name isn’t easy to remember or easy to spell, then you will lose traffic. If you lose traffic you lose sales.. no sales = no revenue etc., etc. Choosing a [...]
January Blues Getting You Down? Save Big In Our Mega Hosting and Domain Name Sale!
Today’s the first day back at work in 2012 for most people. We know that a lot of people find January to be a tough month … but every cloud has a silver lining .. January is sale time! Here at Blacknight we like bringing you discounts whenever and whereever we can. This January’s sale, [...]
Happy New Year 2012
Happy New Year! 2012 should be an interesting year and hopefully it will be a good year for all of us. So what’s coming up in 2012? Well the VAT rate in Ireland has gone up as of midnight last night, which puts a bit of a downer on the start of a new year.. [...]
Blacknight Does Not Support SOPA
We’ve always been strong believers in striking as sane a balance as possible between privacy, freedom of expression and protection of both 3rd parties’ rights and due process. We maintain good relations with law enforcement, government and the security community. We take our responsibility as a good corporate citizen in the internet ecosystem very seriously. [...]
Budget 2012 Pig Says Save Money With Blacknight
Nobody looks forward to “budget day”, but this year we had to wait two days to find out how much money the government was planning on taking from us. So we thought we’d try to cheer people up a little bit by running a special post-budget discount special. So here’s the deal – and don’t [...]
XXX Goes Live and This Is How We Push It
We’re the only Irish company offering the new .xxx domain name extension, as we’re the only Irish company that has ever been accredited by ICANN as a domain name registrar. So how on earth does an Irish company promote .xxx domain names? I guess the answer is – very carefully. So here are a few [...]
XXX Opening For General Registration
Tomorrow afternoon the .xxx domain will finally “go live”. If you applied for a .xxx domain name during sunrise or landrush then your domain names should go live tomorrow as well. The two exceptions to this being a “blocking” registration or where you’ve ended up in an auction against someone else. People have been asking [...]
Redirect Your Defensive .Tel Domains
Defensive domain registrations can be quite “painful” to manage. If you’re trying to protect your brand or identity online you can easily end up registering quite a few alternatives to your main domain. With “normal” domain names this isn’t too much of an issue to manage, as you can point one domain at another, so [...]
Win A Puppy.. Or An Ipad – Save On EU Domain Registration / Transfer
We like bringing special offers and discounts to you, so here’s one for anyone who wants to target the European market and register (or transfer) a .eu domain name. Register a .eu domain name for 1 year at the reduced rate of only €3.99 between now and Christmas Already got a .eu domain name with [...]
XXX Landrush Is Here
We’ve mentioned XXX domain names in the past and we spoke to Paul Walsh from MetaCert on the Technology.ie podcast last week. We’re offering .xxx domain names as part of the registry’s “landrush”. You can order them here Press release below: For a limited time, members of the Adult “sponsored” Community may register .XXX domains [...]
Co.uk Registry To Offer Multi-year Registrations
The co.uk country code domain currently offers a single registration period – 2 years. Starting from May of next year the registry will be offering the more “standard” registration periods of 1 to 10 years What does this mean? It means that you’ll be able to register (and renew) your *.uk domain names for up [...]
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- Win an Xbox 360 From Blacknight February 6, 2012
- Martha Rotter and Stewart Curry from Idea Magazine [Tech Heroes Podcast #2] January 31, 2012
- An Irish SOPA to an Irish Problem [Podcast #15] January 26, 2012
- “Yippee Doo Dah” [Podcast #14] January 19, 2012
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