Tag Archives | Domain name registry

Dot Cat Domains Now Come With Better Privacy

By on January 10, 2013 in Domains, dotcat

If you’re a private individual and are using your domain name for your private personal use (ie. not for any form of business or commercial purpose) then you might like a bit of privacy. We get that. That’s why we launched our whois privacy service last year so that you can get a bit more [...]

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Last Call On IE Domains For 2012

By on December 20, 2012 in Domains, iedr

If you need to get a .ie domain name – be that a new domain name registration, a transfer or a holder update / change the clock is ticking .. The IEDR will be closed from tomorrow afternoon until 2013! So get your orders in today! If you have a pending .ie domain registration request [...]

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Don't forget to renew your hosting / domain

Don’t Lose Your Domain (Or Your Hosting)

By on August 27, 2012 in Domains, Hosting, Tips

Domain registration and hosting are not expensive. Signing up for hosting and domain registration isn’t complicated. Choose your hosting provider / domain registrar. Find an available domain name, choose an appropriate hosting plan, pay and off you go. The entire process is fast and automated (unless you chose a domain name that requires manual intervention). [...]

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Talking About .Cat And More Nacho Amadoz

By on July 7, 2012 in Domains, dotcat, newtlds, Podcasting

The other evening I managed to grab Nacho Amadoz from the .cat domain registry for an interview with Conn and I for technology.ie. Unlike most of our guests Nacho wasn’t planned – it was just a happy accident! Nacho was online chatting with me via Skype so I just grabbed him We talked about what [...]

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Changes are afoot - domain pricing tweaks

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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Don’t Make Us Treat Our Customers Like Criminals!

By on May 29, 2012 in Domains, Hosting, policy

This post is probably a little longer than my normal ones and is probably best classified as a “rant”. You have been warned. Now please read on. Online Crime Is A Serious Issue Crime, fraud, scams etc., they’re all very bad things. They’re also not going to go away anytime soon. As a domain name [...]

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Co.uk Registry Data Quality Update

By on May 28, 2012 in Domains, nominet

If you have registered a UK domain with us, or transferred your existing domain to us, then you might receive an email from us asking you to confirm your contact details. First off this is not a scam! We are working with Nominet, the UK domain registry, to improve the quality of data related to [...]

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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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January Blues Getting You Down? Save Big In Our Mega Hosting and Domain Name Sale!

By on January 3, 2012 in Domains, dotme, dottel, Email, eurid, Hosting, icann, Promotions

Today’s the first day back at work in 2012 for most people. We know that a lot of people find January to be a tough month … but every cloud has a silver lining .. January is sale time! Here at Blacknight we like bringing you discounts whenever and whereever we can. This January’s sale, [...]

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Budget 2012 Pig Says Save Money With Blacknight

By on December 7, 2011 in cctlds, Cloud Hosting, Domains, Hosting, it, Promotions

Nobody looks forward to “budget day”, but this year we had to wait two days to find out how much money the government was planning on taking from us. So we thought we’d try to cheer people up a little bit by running a special post-budget discount special. So here’s the deal – and don’t [...]

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XXX Opening For General Registration

By on December 5, 2011 in Domains, xxx

Tomorrow afternoon the .xxx domain will finally “go live”. If you applied for a .xxx domain name during sunrise or landrush then your domain names should go live tomorrow as well. The two exceptions to this being a “blocking” registration or where you’ve ended up in an auction against someone else. People have been asking [...]

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