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
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 [...]
CoCCA Domain Registry Changes Effective November 7th 2011
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. [...]
Speaking On New TLDs In Serbia
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 [...]
Save Save Save on DotCo Domain Registration
Can’t find a good .com domain name? Have you tried .co? With over 1 million .co domain names registered .co is proving to be a pretty popular domain extension, but there’s still way more choice than what you’d find in .com We’re currently offering a special discount price on .co registration. Get a one year [...]
Save on .Co In April
NB: This offer has been extended for the month of May 2011Throughout the month of April 2011 we are reducing the price on .co domain name registrations. You do not need any special coupon codes or incantations – just place an order via your website and get .co domain names for €13.99 / year. What [...]
Protect Your Brand – It’s Not Hard!
We’ve spoken about the concept of “branding” on here a few times in the past. With more and more people going online every single day the importance of “owning” your “brand” online is growing day by day. The very concept of “brand” has changed significantly over the past few years. While you used to associate [...]
Black Friday Blacknight Style
I’ve been following the entire “Black Friday” hype for the last few weeks and been more than a little bemused by how small the discounts that some of the vendors were offering. I believe in keeping things simple and clear. If you’re going to offer an “amazing” discount it needs to be amazing. It needs [...]
CENTR Debate On Reputational DNS
CENTR (Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries), which is the European association for country code domain name registry managers, held their 43rd General Assembly in Brussels last week. I was invited to speak at the meeting, but rather than giving a “talk” the format was a debate about “reputational DNS”. So what exactly [...]
TRAFFIC Dublin
I’m at TRAFFIC Dublin for the next couple of days. It’s nice to not have to get a plane to attend a domain industry event! The schedule for the two days is interesting but, in common with most industry events, the real work and interest is in what goes on in the corridors. Dublin’s Shelbourne [...]
Adding More Horses To Our Stable – Or How To Abuse Metaphors Badly When Talking Domains
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 [...]
Want A Domain? Why Not Try .Gl?
One of the things we’re working on all the time is adding more services. So when the opportunity presented itself to offer a “new” domain extension to our clients we jumped at it! We are now offering .gl domain name registration What is .gl? .gl is the country code domain extension for Greenland. Are there [...]
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