We are always working on adding new products and services to our portfolio, so I am delighted to announce the addition of 5 new domain name extensions. We are now offering domain registrations in Antigua (.ag), Honduras (.hn), Saint Lucia (.lc), Mongolia (.mn) and Saint Vincent and Grenadines. All of the domain extensions are available [...]
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St Patrick’s Day Domain Special Blowout
Blacknight is a 100% Irish owned and run company. It’s something we’re very proud of. We’re also the only Irish ICANN accredited registrar, we’re the biggest Eurid registrar, the biggest Nominet registrar etc.,, (You get the point?) For 51 weeks of the year we don’t “push” our Irishness, or at least not overtly .. However, [...]
Save Money On Domains – Current Discounts
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 [...]

Info Price Shocker
We’ve been running so many “silly” domain deals in the last few weeks that I almost overlooked one – our price slash on .info domains! What you get? .info registration for €4.95 Which registration periods are covered? One year registration only. How long is the offer available? Until December 31st 2009 Is it applicable to [...]
Europäischer Hosting-Gigant startet Massenvertrieb der .mobi- und .im- Domains
Machen Sie bei der mobilen Revolution mit und erwerben Sie einen .mobi-Domain-Namen oder bündeln Sie Ihre soziale Kommunikation im Netz auf einer .im-Domain. Carlow, Irland, 23. September 2009 – Blacknight Solutions, Irlands bestbewerteter und am schnellsten wachsender Domain-Registrar und Hosting Provider, hat den weltweiten Verkauf der .mobi- und .im-Domains gestartet. Bei noch nie da gewesenen [...]
Gigante europeo dell’ Hosting lancia una strepitosa offerta sui domini .mobi e .im
Unisciti alla rivoluzione mobile e acquista un dominio .mobi o centralizza le tue attività social media con un dominio .im. Carlow, Irlanda – 23 Settembre 2009 – Blacknight Solutions, il registrar e hosting provider più quotato e in maggior espansione in Irlanda, ha lanciato un’offerta a livello mondiale sui domini .mobi e .im. Aziende e [...]
A Busy Few Weeks
Over the last few weeks we’ve been working hard on launching a bunch of domain extensions on our own accreditation. While the main focus of our attention has been on getting the more popular domain extensions up and running (ie. com / net / org / info / biz / mobi etc.,) we’ve also ended [...]

DotInfo Now Live On Blacknight
I did warn people that we’d have several announcements like this this week, so I’m not going to apologise! Blacknight are now fully accredited with Afilias for .info. In common with the other domain extensions we launched this week, all new registrations will be processed under Blacknight’s ICANN accreditation. We will be enabling transfers in [...]
Blacknight Now ICANN Accredited
We are delighted to be able to tell the world that we are now an ICANN accredited registrar! I’ve been attending ICANN events and trying to get to grips with the entire setup for the last couple of years and quickly realised that the only way we could really move forward was to become accredited. [...]

So Which Domain Extensions Are Popular?
ICANN has made available a range of statistics and pretty graphs that allow you to see easily what’s going on with the various registries it is responsible for. (ccTLDs such as co.uk and .fr are not included for this reason) Full details of the updated system they’ve made available may be found on the ICANN [...]
Bulk Domain Orders Are Here!
One of the things that people really really hated about our old order system was the lack of a bulk order option for domains. Our nice new shiny order system solves this issue once and for all! You can now order up to 100 domains at once via our new bulk order system. We’re also [...]

ICANN Approves New .info Policy
Image via Wikipedia During the ICANN meeting in Paris last month Afilias, the company that manages the .info registry, put forward a proposal to change some of the .info policies. The idea behind the new policy (PDF) is to help stem online fraud and cybercrime of various kinds, however the policy document itself is very [...]
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