We’ve dropped the price on .eu domains for the rest of this month to a mere 5 euro! You can place your order online via our website and your .eu will be up and running in minutes. We’ve been an accredited registrar for .eu domains for the last couple of months, although we hadn’t put [...]
Domain Registrant Rights
As a domain registrant you have certain rights. Unfortunately those rights can be abused by companies that don’t believe in ethical business practices. It would be nice and simple if the whois display were the same across all TLDs (ie. domain extensions), but they’re not. A basic right is for the domain to be registered [...]
Eurid To Change DNS Updates
Eurid, which is the registry in charge of the .eu domain, contacted all their registrars, including us, earlier today to announce a major change to the way they handle DNS updates. At present .eu DNS servers update 5 times a day. From 12 on October 9th the DNS will move to dynamic updates ie. changes [...]

Ramping up for .asia launch
Over the next couple of months a new domain extension will go live – dot asia (.asia) which is aimed at representing the businesses and people of the Asia Pacific region. We’ll be providing information on the registration requirements over the next few days as well as pricing and timelines. Why would you want to [...]
Growth in .eu and .us article
I was interviewed recently for an article published by Warren News. We’re republishing the article here with the permission of Warner Communications News: Too Little Marketing Said Hurting Growth of .us and .eu Country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) .us and .eu were launched to great expectations, but several years on, some wonder whether they will ever [...]

Keep your details up to date!
A lot of people signup for hosting using free email accounts or maybe their “current” work email address. Unfortunately nobody on our end can possibly know if those email addresses are valid weeks, months or years later. If you change your email address or telephone number you can easily update it via the control panel, [...]

Eurid accredits Blacknight Solutions
EURid accredited Irish domain registration and hosting company Blacknight Solutions as an EU registrar. Blacknight Solutions is one of Ireland’s largest hosters with over 18 thousand domains hosted. “Becoming an accredited .eu registrar allows us to offer the best level of service to our clients”, explained Blacknight’s CEO Michele Neylon. “Being a .eu registrar benefits [...]
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