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Blacknight Solutions, Ireland's leading internet services company, is proud to announce it is now the largest domain name registrar for .eu domain names in Ireland.


"A .eu domain name is a great way not just for Irish businesses, but all Europeans, to promote themselves throughout Europe and the wider world," said Michele Neylon, CEO of Blacknight Solutions. "Ireland is one of Europe's leading export economies, and Blacknight strongly encourage Europeans to register .eu domains as a great way to express European identity."


"With domain name registrations continuing to defy the global financial crisis, Blacknight is encouraging people thinking of registering a .eu domain name to not delay. Especially as it only costs €5.95 per year."


By registering a .eu domain name, it demonstrates your product or service's European identity. A .eu domain name assists in showcasing products and services to the 500 million Europeans in 27 European countries and out into the wider world.


There are almost three million .eu domain names registered by European businesses and individuals, with any company or organisation based in the European Union and any person living in the EU eligible to register a .eu domain name.


"By offering .eu domain names is part of being able to offer our clients a full range of domain name services, from registration to hosting, making Blacknight a one-stop shop for all a businesses' or individual's requirements."


Blacknight offers advice on domain name and webhosting requirements, with domain name registration services available for all major European countries and further afield throughout the world.


About Blacknight Solutions

Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd is a 100% Irish-owned company specialising in serving the hosting and co-location needs of businesses, both large and small. Its servers are based in Ireland's leading datacenters: The Data Electronics Group in Clondalkin, Dublin and Interxion, also in Dublin. By partnering with innovative companies, like Parallels and Comodo, Blacknight brings best-of-breed technologies to the Irish market, while maintaining an aggressive pricing model. Blacknight are members of the IIA, ISPAI, RIPE, INEX and Nominet.  Blacknight are an ICANN accredited registrar. See www.blacknight.com for more information.

Blacknight Solutions, Ireland's leading internet services company, is now accredited to sell .co.nl domain names. By registering a .co.nl domain name, for example myname.co.nl, registrants have the opportunity to reach a wider audience, particularly in The Netherlands.

Domain names with the .co.nl extension can be registered by anyone anywhere, unlike the .nl country code that requires a contact point in The Netherlands.

"Becoming an accredited registrar for .co.nl domain names allows us to give our clients an even wider range of options for registering domain names", said Blacknight CEO Michele Neylon.

"It extends the level of service we can offer our clients, making Blacknight Solutions a one-stop shop for all a businesses' internet hosting and domain name requirements."

With over three million .nl domain names already registered, obtaining your preferred .nl domain name can be difficult, however with this new extension, it will be much easier.

To ensure our clients get the .co.nl domain of your choice, Blacknight Solutions suggests contacting us as soon as possible to discuss requirements.

The .co.nl domain name extension was launched at the ICANN meeting in Paris held from 23-26 June, 2008. To ensure every person and every company has a fair chance to register their own .co.nl domain name, there will be a Sunrise process, as outlined below.

During this Sunrise period, every owner of a .nl and/or a valid trademark registration has the exclusive opportunity to register the international variant of their domain name within the defined Sunrise periods:
Sunrise 1: Grandfather period - commencing date Q3 2008
During the Grandfather period, owners of a .nl have an exclusive right to register their .co.nl as well. This implies that a registrant owning mydomain.nl, will be the only entity that has the opportunity to register mydomain.co.nl during the Grandfather period.

Sunrise 2: Registered Trademarks - commencing date Q4 2008
Domains that were not registered during Sunrise 1 (Grandfather) can still be claimed by trademark owners during the second phase. These applications will also be reviewed by a Verification Agent.

Multiple eligible applications of the same .co.nl name received during the 2nd Sunrise period will be assigned on a first come first served basis.

Landrush/ Go live - commencing date Q1 2009
In the Landrush phase, application requests can be made by the general public without restriction. They will be accepted on a first comes first served basis.

(Mentioned dates are merely indicative. Specific dates will be communicated two months before the actual launch)

If you'd like to find out what people are getting upto in the wonderful world of mobile devices and the mobile web, then Mobile Monday is the place for you.

On Monday next, September 24th Mobile Monday Demo Night will take place in The Hairy Lemon, which is in central Dublin (map)

Several companies will be showing off their latest creations so it should be good fun.

As we're promoting .mobi domains at present it's only natural that we also take the time to promote mobile web related stuff, so we'll be sponsoring the event.

More info here

Over the course of the next few weeks I'll be doing an occasional series of posts on making the most of your dotmobi domain.

If anyone has any suggestions or ideas that they'd like to share please let me know!

The topics I intend to cover will include things like building a site, checking it, making money from it and any other topics that people suggest to me.

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 our clients because Blacknight Solutions can register .eu domains faster and more efficiently. It also allows us to deal directly with EURid."

A .eu domain is essential for businesses operating in the EU and allows the market to be served with a single domain.

Since the launch of .eu in April 2006 over 2 million names have been registered.