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Save Big On US Domains With Hosting

By on March 20, 2013 in cctlds, Domains, Press Releases, Promotions

We’re announcing a nice discount deal on .us domain names. If you register a .us domain name and get an annual website hosting plan at the same time you’ll get the .us domain name for only EUR5.99 (ex-VAT) for the first year. You can read a bit more about .us domain names and why we [...]

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Expand Your Online Business Into the US market

Targetting the US Market? Maybe A .US Domain Makes Sense?

By on March 13, 2013 in business, cctlds, Domains

The internet is global, but it’s also local. What do I mean? If you’re an Irish business you probably have a .ie domain name. If you’re based in the UK then you probably have a co.uk website. Why? Because people expect you to and they know and trust the concept of “local”. If you want [...]

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Black Friday and Cyber Monday discount offers on hosting and domains

Save Big In Our Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sale

By on November 23, 2012 in .co, cctlds, Domains, dotcat, dotme, eurid, Promotions

From today until Monday night we’re running some special discount offers across a range of domain names and other services. “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” may have started out in the US, but they’ve become pretty popular over this side of the world too.. so we thought we’d join in. So what are the offers? [...]

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Press Release: Blacknight Lead the Market on .IE Domains – Growth Even in Difficult Economic Climate

By on July 27, 2012 in cctlds, Domains, iedr, Press Releases

We put out another press release earlier this morning in relation to .ie domain names. Domain sales and growth are always a good thing, but overthinking the reasons can lead to the media getting some rather odd views of how things work .. Here it is below: Blacknight lead the Market on .IE Domains Annual [...]

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2 Years of .co domain names

Happy Birthday .Co!

By on July 20, 2012 in cctlds, Domains

The guys in .co are celebrating 2 years in operation today. When they launched they had no idea how well they might do, but they’ve been incredibly successful in a short period of time. And to underline that they ran a pretty cool marketing campaign around flying pigs Their infographic highlights some of their achievements, [...]

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Woohoo! Blacknight Announce Partnership with .CO

By on May 31, 2012 in cctlds, Domains, Marketing, Press Releases

I love it when a plan comes together Being able to finally announce to the world that we are accredited for .co directly with CoInternet makes me incredibly happy and very satisfied. Why? Because the guys in .co are incredibly picky about who they’ll work with. So it took quite a bit of work to [...]

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Be Happy!

By on May 9, 2012 in cctlds, Domains, Promotions

We haven’t done any “silly” promotions for a while, so we’re making up for lost time this week! From now until the end of June July you’ll be able to get a .be domain name for only €3.99 (registration or transfer) What is .be? Well it’s the country code for Belgium – the country that [...]

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Become At One With Your UK Domain

By on May 1, 2012 in cctlds, Domains, nominet

As of today you can register OR renew UK domain names for up to 10 years! So if you have your .com, .eu, .me or .co domain name already registered for a full 10 year period you can now do the same with your co.uk. I’m a strong believer in “eating our own dogfood”, so [...]

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Budget 2012 Pig Says Save Money With Blacknight

By on December 7, 2011 in cctlds, Cloud Hosting, Domains, Hosting, it, Promotions

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 [...]

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Co.uk Registry To Offer Multi-year Registrations

By on November 10, 2011 in cctlds, Domains, nominet

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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CoCCA Domain Registry Changes Effective November 7th 2011

By on October 30, 2011 in cctlds, Domains, News

CoCCA, which is the registry operator for several country code top level domains (ccTLDs) is making some significant changes to their policies effective November 7th 2011. You can read the official announcement on their site here. We were only informed of this policy change this evening – a week prior to it coming into effect. [...]

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Speaking On New TLDs In Serbia

By on September 10, 2011 in cctlds, Domains, Events, IDN, newtlds

I’ll be speaking on a panel about new TLDs at the 4th International Conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe next week in Serbia. The conference will bring together domain industry experts from all over Europe for two days with a fairly packed agenda. Topics that are on the agenda [...]

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