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Every Time You Register A Domain Name with a Hyphen, a Puppy Dies

Puppies, Domains and Startups

By on June 9, 2013 in Domains

A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to attend the Shift conference in Split, Croatia (sorry – I recycled the graphic from last month above!) The event, which includes a startup competition, brings together startups from across central and eastern Europe, with speakers from the four corners of the globe. I was speaking [...]

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.Cat Domain Statistics

By on May 29, 2013 in Domains, dotcat, Marketing

I’ve always found visuals much easier to understand than tabular data, so the graphics that our friends over at .cat have released really appeal to me. They’ve broken down the usage of the .cat domain name extension and it makes for an interesting read  

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Save big on .xxx domain name registrations in the month of May

NSFW! Save BIG On XXX Domains

By on May 1, 2013 in Domains, Promotions, xxx

We love a special offer and we love being able to bring you BIG ones. The temptation to make silly puns with this one is strong, so I’ll cut to the chase .. Register a .xxx domain name during the month of May and you’ll get a HUGE saving. We’re only charging €8.95 (ex-VAT) per [...]

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Why choose Blacknight

By on January 31, 2013 in Blacknight, business, Domains, ecommerce, Hosting

People often ask us why they should choose us as a hosting company. Hosting is hosting,  right ? Wrong. Hosting and domain name services are critical to the availability of your website. If something  impacts either of these, your website will not be available for people to visit. With business relying more and more on [...]

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Blacknight Encourage Customers to Upgrade Their Digital Lives in The New Year

By on January 2, 2013 in .co, Cloud Hosting, Domains, dotme, ecommerce, Email, Hosting, Marketing, mobile, Press Releases

It’s a New Year, so it’s a perfect time to make changes, start new projects and “put your best foot forward”. With that in mind we’re encouraging people to have a look at their “digital life” and see how they can make the best of it (watch this space for more articles on this in [...]

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new TLD draw results

Irish Domain Registrar evaluates which new TLDs will first be available for their customers

By on December 20, 2012 in Domains, icann, newtlds, Press Releases

Earlier this week ICANN held a lottery or draw to help determine the prioritisation of new TLD applications We put out this release on it earlier this afternoon Blacknight Announce Results of New gTLD Applicant Priority Draw Irish Registrar evaluates which new TLDs will first be available for their customers. December 20, 2012- Carlow, Ireland [...]

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A Not So Subliminal Message – Register .me Domains!!

By on October 26, 2012 in Domains, dotme, humour

Not sure if this could take off as a meme, but it won’t be for lack of trying! Go here – act now – you know you want to!!   And congratulations to the entire .me team for their continued success – they’ve just announced they’ve broken 650k domain names registered and are the fastest [...]

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Yarr Domains or Yarr...

Yarr domains or yarr …

By on September 19, 2012 in Domains

John the pirate thought to himself … maybe saying “he’d give his right leg for that domain name” wasn’t the wisest move he’d ever made. It’s international talk like a pirate day and who are we to miss an opportunity to throw up what we think is a fun blog post. We’ve a few offers [...]

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2 Years of .co domain names

Happy Birthday .Co!

By on July 20, 2012 in cctlds, Domains

The guys in .co are celebrating 2 years in operation today. When they launched they had no idea how well they might do, but they’ve been incredibly successful in a short period of time. And to underline that they ran a pretty cool marketing campaign around flying pigs Their infographic highlights some of their achievements, [...]

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Top 5 Irish hosting providers market share July 2012

Press Release: Blacknight Sets Benchmark for Irish Hosting

By on July 16, 2012 in Blacknight, Domains, Hosting, Infographic, Marketing, Press Releases

We all like hitting milestones, so when I learnt that the most recent Hosterstats report had to say about our recent growth I was delighted. Not only are we continuing to grow, but we’ve become the first Irish hosting provider to break the 100k site hosted mark. Not only that, but we now host more [...]

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Win A Puppy.. Or An Ipad – Save On EU Domain Registration / Transfer

By on November 28, 2011 in Competitions, Domains, eurid, Marketing, Promotions

We like bringing special offers and discounts to you, so here’s one for anyone who wants to target the European market and register (or transfer) a .eu domain name. Register a .eu domain name for 1 year at the reduced rate of only €3.99 between now and Christmas Already got a .eu domain name with [...]

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XXX Landrush Is Here

By on November 14, 2011 in Domains, xxx

We’ve mentioned XXX domain names in the past and we spoke to Paul Walsh from MetaCert on the Technology.ie podcast last week. We’re offering .xxx domain names as part of the registry’s “landrush”. You can order them here Press release below: For a limited time, members of the Adult “sponsored” Community may register .XXX domains [...]

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