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Asian IDNs Now Available Under .Co

We’ve mentioned IDNs in the past. Basically an IDN domain name allows you to register using non-ASCII characters. At the simplest level that might be the addition of an accent to a vowel, but if your native language is Arabic, Greek, Chinese, Korean etc., then it’s an entirely different character set. Of course IDN domain [...]

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.co breaks 1.5 million domain names registered proving pigs might fly

Congratulations To CoInternet (.co) On 1.5 Million Domains!

A couple of hours ago the CEO of .co, Juan Diego Calle, posted a short update, but it signified a major milestone: 1,499,999 … good bye 400s.Good morning 500s. — Juan Diego Calle (@juandiegocalle) March 26, 2013 The .co domain has broken the 1.5 million domain name mark! That is truly impressive, especially when you [...]

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The Roses Are Red Post

The roses are red post … have we said too much?

Roses are red, Violets are blue, We love domains, We hope you do too! We wouldn’t be Blacknight if we didn’t try and do things our way. We announced last week that if you bought a .me or .co domain not only would you be getting them at a great discount but we’d be sending [...]

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Roses Are Red

Our super valentines day offer (now with added dragons + badges)

Valentines Day is a day for sharing and appreciation of each other. At Blacknight we love to give back to our customers, so for this week, anyone who purchases a .me or .co domain gets one of these really cool badges from Spike Badges. The .me extension is perfect for personal and memorable occasions as [...]

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Free yourself - don't be a digital prisoner

Blacknight Encourage Customers to Upgrade Their Digital Lives in The New Year

It’s a New Year, so it’s a perfect time to make changes, start new projects and “put your best foot forward”. With that in mind we’re encouraging people to have a look at their “digital life” and see how they can make the best of it (watch this space for more articles on this in [...]

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Christmas discount offers on hosting & domains

Happy Christmas Offers

It’s that time of the year again .. So we’ve revamped and relaunched our super duper Christmas offers site. What’s on offer? This year you can save quite a bit on both hosting and domains – but you have to use the coupon code “xmas12” to get the discounts Domains: .eu €4.99 .co €11.99 .me [...]

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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

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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Not sure what to do about your Ireland.com email?

An Alternative To Ireland.com Email?

Ireland.com will be shutting down their email service in a few days time. If you have an @ireland.com email address you will need to find an alternative solution. So what are your options? Well you could simply switch to another free email service. There’s plenty of them out there to choose from, but if you [...]

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free .co domains with Blacknight

Press Release: Blacknight Announce Free .CO Domains for Getting Business Online

I love it when a plan comes together! Over the past few weeks (and months) our team has been working on making some changes and enhancements to the Getting Business Online in order to improve the service for everyone. Some of the changes are subtle, yet important, while others are pretty big. Today we are [...]

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Happ Katie, Happy Blacknight

Happy Friday, Happy Katie, Happy Ireland, Happy Blacknight

Well it’s Friday so I think that immediately puts most people in a good mood. Couple that with the amazing win by Katie Taylor yesterday and you can’t help but feel proud to be Irish. So we’ve gone and done things the Blacknight way and want to say a huge congratulations to her and let’s [...]

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Press Release : Blacknight Invite Customers to Fall In Love With Free .co and .me domains.

In the run up to the long weekend here in Ireland we put out a press release this morning about our latest discount offer on both .co and .me domain names. Oddly enough we were chatting with .co’s Crystal Peterson for the technology.ie podcast last night (the show should be out later today!), so it’s [...]

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We Are Not Running An Olympics Special

We could have come up with an Olympics’ themed special offer and launched it to coincide with the Olympic Games being held in London (best of luck to everyone by the way!). But just about every company out there seems to have some kind of Olympics themed special .. and besides, we aren’t a sponsor [...]

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