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Domaining Spain 2013 Valencia

The Domains In Spain Fall Mainly On ..

By on April 22, 2013 in Domains, Events, newtlds

Next week I’ll be heading off to Valencia in Spain for Domaining Spain 2013. I’ll be speaking on a panel next Thursday afternoon which will be focussed on new TLDs. The panel will include myself, Tim Switzer from .Green and Xavier Buck (EuroDNS). Tim and I have been playing email ping pong about the panel [...]

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We like stats part II

By on March 14, 2013 in Domains, General, iedr, Promotions

It has been a while since we last posted any stats on the blog. So we’re at it again. The below are stats for the .ie ccTLD. (Hint: There are discounts to celebrate at the bottom) Just like the last time the graphs really do speak for themselves. First up it’s the number of new [...]

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Expand Your Online Business Into the US market

Targetting the US Market? Maybe A .US Domain Makes Sense?

By on March 13, 2013 in business, cctlds, Domains

The internet is global, but it’s also local. What do I mean? If you’re an Irish business you probably have a .ie domain name. If you’re based in the UK then you probably have a co.uk website. Why? Because people expect you to and they know and trust the concept of “local”. If you want [...]

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Fifth International conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe

Press Release: Michele Neylon of Blacknight To Speak At International Domain Conference in Montenegro

By on September 3, 2012 in Domains, Events

Internet and domain pundit Michele Neylon of leading domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight will speak at The 5th International Conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe. The conference, which will be held in Budva, Montenegro from September 11- 13, 2012 and takes place at Hotel Avala is hosted by [...]

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Domain Pricing Changes Are Afoot

By on July 3, 2012 in business, Domains

We’ve always been pretty aggressive about our domain pricing strategy. Over the last couple of years we’ve barely touched our pricing on new domain registrations and transfers, but have been running many of them at a deep discount. Most of the domain registries operate in US dollars, while we operate in the Euro zone. So [...]

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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 July 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 [...]

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Celebrating 10 million .uk domains

Register Or Renew A UK Domain And Maybe Win An IPad

By on March 29, 2012 in Competitions, Domains, nominet

Everyone loves iPads. You’d probably be lying if you said otherwise! So here’s a really nice promotion from our friends at Nominet, the .uk domain name registry. If you register OR renew a .uk domain name between now and 26th April 2012 and you could win an iPad. They’re giving away an iPad each day [...]

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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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New TLDs Explained In Plain English

By on June 26, 2011 in Domains, icann, IDN, newtlds

ICANN has released a video which explains in simple terms what new TLDs are all about and what is going to happen: Related articles ICANN Board Votes in Favour of New TLDs (internetnews.me) Blacknight Welcomes the Approval of New gTLDs (blacknight.com) George Sadowsky’s Explanation of His No Vote (internetnews.me)

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Let’s Invade Europe!

By on April 18, 2011 in Domains, eurid, Marketing, Promotions

We unveiled one of the elements of our .eu marketing campaign a few days ago when we announced the availability of multi-year .eu domain name registrations (and renewals). Our choice of imagery seems to have struck a chord in some parts! So today we’re unveiling the next phase of our master plan (queue Dr Evil [...]

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Protect Your Brand

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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Introducing Blacknig.ht

By on July 19, 2010 in Blacknight

Over the last couple of years URL shorteners have gone from being “handy”, yet probably geeky, to being omnipresent. Just about every website out there has some kind of URL shortening builtin with an increasing number of companies / sites opting to use their own branded one. We finally got round to putting our own [...]

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