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We’ll be heading to San Diego, California for HostingCon Global again this year. It’s a good opportunity for us to strengthen relationships with vendors and also to assess new products and services to add to our portfolio. However, if the event was only about talking to vendors it might be a little dry. Throughout the […]
Our email only plans have arrived making it easier than ever to get your custom email address up and running within minutes. You have your own domain name now it’s time to put it to use. For €9.99 a year (less than a euro a month) we will give you access to our shiny new […]
Blacknight continues to grow – thanks to our loyal customers and the wonderful staff that support them. In fact – we believe that customer support is our core competence – and we’re looking to build on it! We’ve advertised job vacancies in two roles: Customer Support / Technical Support and Senior Customer Support / Technical Support. We’ve also […]
We’ve talked about choosing a domain name for your business or online presence many times in the past. As long as you avoid “silly” mistakes then the choice should be entirely yours. If you want to build your business around a particular domain name extension because it fits you, then you should be able to […]
Some domain name extensions are more “fun” than others. We think .love opens up a lot of opportunities for both business and personal use. Just think of how many expressions you use every single day with the term “love”. And of course “love” as a concept is one of the strongest emotions that we can […]
We love the idea of “local”. It just makes sense. So if you’re based in London or are trying to market your business or services into the London market, the .london domain name extension makes sense Don’t believe us? Then watch this video with some great examples of businesses that have adopted the .london domain […]
It’s that time of year again .. The IIA Net Visionary Awards nominations are open again! Once again we’re sponsoring – this year the category is “Best Website – joyous to look at and splendid to use”. The award combines looks with usefulness or, as the organisers put it: This Best Web Design Award will […]
Getting a good domain name for your business or online identity can make all the difference. So we’re delighted to announce that we now offer premium .club domain names for instant registration. We recently announced that we were offering premium .irish domain names, so expanding our offering to other domain name extensions was something we […]
If you have visited the IEDR website recently you might have noticed that the counter down the bottom of the page has now passed 200 thousand domain names. They’ll be making a bit of a “song and dance” about this milestone, which is understandable. However, what’s probably more interesting from our perspective is their new “domain […]
Our new podcast series TrailBlazers.Irish is now available on iTunes You can subscribe quickly and easily and never miss an episode now. We announced the launch of the new site and podcast last week and have already published two episodes. In the first episode Conn, myself and Gene from the .irish domain name registry discussed […]
As mentioned previously (here and here) there is currently an open comment period being held by ICANN around whois privacy and proxy services. This is something that we feel strongly about so the below is the comment that I submitted to ICANN this evening. I am submitting these comments in my capacity as founder and […]
To celebrate the recent successes for Marriage Equality rights in Ireland, and in the USA, we are currently running a discount on the .wedding domain extension. Starting today until August 15th you can secure your .wedding domain for €12.99; probably the cheapest item in your wedding budget! Whilst the face of marriage in Ireland in […]