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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 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 brings [...]

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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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Save Save Save on DotCo Domain Registration

By on August 16, 2011 in cctlds, Domains

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 [...]

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Save on .Co In April

By on April 3, 2011 in cctlds, Domains, Promotions

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 [...]

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Protect Your Brand – It’s Not Hard!

By on January 5, 2011 in business, cctlds, Domains, Marketing

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 [...]

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Black Friday Blacknight Style

By on November 26, 2010 in cctlds, Domains, eurid, iedr, Promotions

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 [...]

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CENTR Debate On Reputational DNS

By on October 10, 2010 in cctlds, Domains, Events

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 [...]

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TRAFFIC Dublin

By on August 24, 2010 in cctlds, Domains, Events

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 [...]

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