Blacknight is a 100% Irish owned and run company. It’s something we’re very proud of. We’re also the only Irish ICANN accredited registrar, we’re the biggest Eurid registrar, the biggest Nominet registrar etc.,, (You get the point?) For 51 weeks of the year we don’t “push” our Irishness, or at least not overtly .. However, [...]
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Dropped.ie – Now With Extra Funky Semantic Search
When we launched dropped.ie a couple of months ago it was aimed at helping people find good domain names to register. We limited it, however, to .ie domain names only. Of course we know that people don’t always want a .ie domain name and, in many cases, the extra paperwork for getting a .ie domain [...]
IE Domain Price Slash – Com Promo Extended
We know you love our silly domain offers, so we’re doing it again. We’ve cut the price on one year .ie domain name registrations to €14.99 You don’t need any coupon codes – just place the order online via our website and you’ll get the special price of €14.99 ex-VAT. Not sure what to get? [...]
Beat The Increase Today – Register or Transfer Your .com Domains Now!
The price of .com (and .net) domain names will be going up on July 1st 2010. This is not a price increase being set by ourselves or any other registrar – it’s an increase that is being set by Verisign, who run both .com and .net. As a result of this price increase we’ve decided [...]
Pre-Christmas Domain Madness Powered By YOU
Everyone was asking for discounts on .com domains. We heard. We listened. Now we are acting. From now until the end of the month (December 31st 2009) all .com registrations and transfers are discounted to €4.99 (ex-VAT). You don’t need any special coupon codes. We’ve even done away with the secret handshakes! Just find a [...]
A Busy Few Weeks
Over the last few weeks we’ve been working hard on launching a bunch of domain extensions on our own accreditation. While the main focus of our attention has been on getting the more popular domain extensions up and running (ie. com / net / org / info / biz / mobi etc.,) we’ve also ended [...]
Blacknight Now ICANN Accredited
We are delighted to be able to tell the world that we are now an ICANN accredited registrar! I’ve been attending ICANN events and trying to get to grips with the entire setup for the last couple of years and quickly realised that the only way we could really move forward was to become accredited. [...]
So Which Domain Extensions Are Popular?
ICANN has made available a range of statistics and pretty graphs that allow you to see easily what’s going on with the various registries it is responsible for. (ccTLDs such as co.uk and .fr are not included for this reason) Full details of the updated system they’ve made available may be found on the ICANN [...]
Currency Markets and Internet Business
I’ve never been “into” Wall Street, currency markets or any of that kind of stuff. Sure, I read The Sunday Business Post, Time and Fortune magazine, but that’s about the extent of it. However, even if I’ve never been that interested in currency markets I’ve always been very conscious of currency rates’ impact on our [...]
Domain Registrations On The Increase According To Verisign
Image via Wikipedia Verisign’s latest Domain Brief shows a growth in the number of domains registered, which is good news for those of us in the industry: At the midpoint of 2008, there were 168 million domain name registrations across allof the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs). This represents a four percent growth over thefirst [...]
Bulk Domain Orders Are Here!
One of the things that people really really hated about our old order system was the lack of a bulk order option for domains. Our nice new shiny order system solves this issue once and for all! You can now order up to 100 domains at once via our new bulk order system. We’re also [...]
More Domain Price Hikes
One of the downsides of a free market is that people can and will change their pricing. Verisign will be upping the registry prices on both .com and .net on October 1st 2008, while .org will push theirs up on November 9th. We’ll be keeping an eye on how this pricing affects us and will [...]
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