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UPDATE: Congratulations to the winner, Keith Kelly on Twitter. @blacknight @theouting_ie https://t.co/MLj9gJZQpb Doing again JUST to be sure I'm in! Need this in my double denimless life! #theouting — Keith Kelly (@Keith_el) September 2, 2016 Thanks to everyone who entered – we’ll have another giveaway next week! To celebrate our sponsorship of The Outing, we’re giving […]
UPDATE: Tickets competition extended to Friday 2 September! TheOuting.LGBT is more than just clever use of a new Top Level Domain – it’s a brilliant idea to celebrate the positive, forward-looking Ireland we in Blacknight are proud to be a part of. As festival organiser Eddie McGuinness describes it: “it’s a new twist on an old tradition”. Historically, people […]
One year ago the .online top level domain name was launched. It quickly grew to become one of the more successful new domains with more than 38 thousand domain names being registered in the first 24 hours. One year later the .online domain is still going strong and the guys at the registry (Radix) have […]
We’ve spoken about the launch of IDN domains in the .ie ccTLD in the past. As of earlier today the “sunrise” for trademark holders is now open, so if you have a trademark which includes a fada you can now apply for an exact match domain name. Conn has been talking about some of the […]
There are now over 1000 new top level domain names “out there”. Some have proven popular. Others have struggled. That’s to be expected. The guys over at Nominet, the .uk registry and also backend provider for .blog, released an interesting visualisation of new TLDs earlier today. Instead of trying to cram every single domain extension […]
We’ve already celebrated the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web. On 12 March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee submitted his original proposal for a distributed system of hyperlinked documents on the internet. Just over two years later, the web went public, when Berners -Lee began posting details of The WWW Project on newsgroups, beginning on 6 August 1991. […]
Michele, our CEO, has posted about the launch of the new .BLOG domain, which has just entered its sunrise phase. Trademark owners can apply for their domains from now until October 17, and we are also taking pre-registration applications for the later Landrush and General Availability phases. Meanwhile, our company blog has a new home, at Blacknight.blog. In many ways, […]
Not only has our company blog found a new home as one of the first blogs using the new .BLOG domain, but Blacknight.blog also has the honour of being shortlisted in two categories of the Littlewoods Ireland Blog Awards 2016. Blacknight.blog is a finalist in two of the corporate blog categories: Digital & Technology, and also Marketing and Communications. 20% of the […]
I started blogging over a decade ago (back in 2003). Back then blogging wasn’t “sexy” or really “mainstream”. But there was a very active blogging community out there. Over the past 10 plus years I’ve continued to blog on a fairly regular basis. It started out as something purely personal, but over time it’s become […]
Earlier this year ICANN commissioned a study to see how aware consumers are of domain name extensions, both “legacy” ones like .com and .org and the new ones such as .tech, .online etc.,. The results make for interesting reading: More than half of respondents (52 percent) were aware of at least one new gTLD. Awareness […]
Blacknight is a long and loyal member of the Irish Internet Association, and we’re delighted to be sponsors yet again this year for the annual Net Visionary Awards. Shortlists were announced this week; there are 16 categories of award in total – and four of those categories are now open to a public vote. That includes […]