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Talking Whois, New TLDs & IANA Transition

Talking Whois, New TLDs & IANA Transition

By Michele Neylon|2015-12-08T10:07:12+00:00December 8th, 2015|Categories: Business, Domains, Policy|Tags: business, Domain name, Domain Name System, icann, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, marketing, new TLDs, Top-level domain, whois|

Last week I had a chat with Andrew Allemann of Domain Name Wire for his podcast. Domain Name Wire is ...

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Celebrate Christmas Early With Our .Irish Promotion!

Celebrate Christmas Early With Our .Irish Promotion!

By Michele Neylon|2015-12-03T16:52:26+00:00December 3rd, 2015|Categories: Domains, Promotions|Tags: Domain name, Domain Name System, irish|

For the next couple of days you can celebrate Christmas early with a deep discount on .irish domain name registration. ...

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Doing Some Lobbying “On The Hill”

Doing Some Lobbying “On The Hill”

By Michele Neylon|2015-11-30T13:52:48+00:00November 30th, 2015|Categories: Legal Issues, Policy|Tags: Cloud computing, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, europe, european union, Federal government of the United States, Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, internet, United States, United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|

Just over a week ago I was in Washington DC as part of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition's delegation. Over the ...

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Want A Domain For Less Than A Euro?

Want A Domain For Less Than A Euro?

By Michele Neylon|2015-11-30T12:39:46+00:00November 30th, 2015|Categories: Domains, New TLDs, Promotions|Tags: Domain name, Domain Name System, domain registration, Generic top-level domain, Top-level domain|

We've been running some insane offers on domain registration since the end of last week. Today is the day the ...

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Black Friday Domain Discounts!

Black Friday Domain Discounts!

By Michele Neylon|2015-11-27T10:54:33+00:00November 27th, 2015|Categories: Domains, Promotions|Tags: Black Friday, discounts, Domain name, domain registration, offers|

It's "Black Friday" so we've pulled out all the stops on our domain name registration discounts and special offers. We ...

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Congregation 2015 Brings Social Media Heads to Mayo

Congregation 2015 Brings Social Media Heads to Mayo

By Conn Ó Muíneacháin|2016-08-24T11:30:44+01:00November 26th, 2015|Categories: Events|Tags: ashford castle, Augmented reality, Cong, cong15, Congregation, marketing, mayo, Oculus Rift, pr, Social media, sponsor, Video, Virtual reality|

I'm getting ready to to Congregation 2015 this weekend, in beautiful Cong, Co Mayo. Once again, this quiet Mayo village will ...

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Pre-Black Friday Special Discount Domains

Pre-Black Friday Special Discount Domains

By Michele Neylon|2015-11-26T12:50:21+00:00November 26th, 2015|Categories: Domains, Promotions|Tags: Black Friday, business, christmas, discounts, Domain name, facebook, gifts, promotions, Social media, Top-level domain, Twitter|

We love getting discounts and special offers for our clients, so in the run-up to "Black Friday" we have worked ...

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Irish? Get Yourname.irish Today!

Irish? Get Yourname.irish Today!

By Michele Neylon|2015-11-25T23:01:28+00:00November 25th, 2015|Categories: Domains, Promotions|Tags: brand, Domain name, ireland, irish, marketing, promotions, Top-level domain|

If you're Irish or feel you are, why not let the world know with your own .irish domain name? We ...

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Are you ready for Black Friday?

Are you ready for Black Friday?

By Gianni Ponzi|2015-11-18T10:44:31+00:00November 17th, 2015|Categories: General|Tags: Black Friday, mobile friendly, Online shopping, Search engine optimization|

Love it or loath it, this annual phenomenon is becoming an ever increasingly popular event in Ireland. Many businesses ...

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Want A Super Short .ie Domain? Sunrise Is Now Open!

Want A Super Short .ie Domain? Sunrise Is Now Open!

By Michele Neylon|2015-11-16T13:11:28+00:00November 16th, 2015|Categories: Domains, IEDR|Tags: Domain name, Domain name registry, ie, irish, Top-level domain|

Up until now you could not register a 1 or 2 letter .ie domain name. Over the past few months ...

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Save BIG On Domain Registration With Our Current Promotions

Save BIG On Domain Registration With Our Current Promotions

By Michele Neylon|2015-11-10T11:55:19+00:00November 10th, 2015|Categories: Domains, Promotions|Tags: Domain name, Domain name registry, internet, Top-level domain|

Our staff work behind the scenes on an ongoing basis to negotiate better pricing from the various domain name registries. ...

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Talking About .Irish and Other Domains in Stockholm

Talking About .Irish and Other Domains in Stockholm

By Michele Neylon|2015-11-09T16:16:59+00:00November 9th, 2015|Categories: Domains, Events|Tags: Country code top-level domain, Domain name, Domain Name System, Generic top-level domain, internet, Stockholm, Top-level domain|

I'll be heading off to Stockholm in a couple of weeks time to speak at the first "Nordic Domain Days". ...

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Coloured Sheep, Fitbit For Cows and New TLDs In Action at #WebSummit

Coloured Sheep, Fitbit For Cows and New TLDs In Action at #WebSummit

By Michele Neylon|2015-11-06T16:05:34+00:00November 6th, 2015|Categories: Events|Tags: dublin, events, startups, web summit|

I'm finally back in Carlow at Blacknight HQ after a few interesting and tiring days (and nights) at Web Summit ...

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Warning – Phishing Scam Targetting Blacknight Customers

Warning – Phishing Scam Targetting Blacknight Customers

By Michele Neylon|2015-11-10T14:36:00+00:00November 3rd, 2015|Categories: Security|Tags: Domain name, Domain name registrar, Domain Name System, phishing, security|

We have received several reports from customers of scam emails that purport to be sent by us. See example below: ...

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Heading To Web Summit? So Are We!

Heading To Web Summit? So Are We!

By Michele Neylon|2015-10-28T20:01:07+00:00October 28th, 2015|Categories: Events|Tags: dublin, ireland, Paddy Cosgrave, Royal Dublin Society, web summit|

Web Summit is on next week in Dublin's RDS and we'll be there. This year's event will be the last ...

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.LIVE in .STUDIO is Where The Magic Happens

.LIVE in .STUDIO is Where The Magic Happens

By Conn Ó Muíneacháin|2015-10-29T16:22:29+00:00October 28th, 2015|Categories: Domains, New TLDs|Tags: .live, .studio, art, broadcast, broadcasting, creative, creativity, Domain name, domains, media, radio, television, Top-level domain, tv|

Two new Top Level Domains (TLDs) just entered General Availability at 5pm today: .LIVE and .STUDIO. If you're involved in ...

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Madrid Here We Come!

Madrid Here We Come!

By Michele Neylon|2015-10-28T14:00:28+00:00October 28th, 2015|Categories: Domains, Events|Tags: barcelona, domaining, domains, Madrid, spain|

Tomorrow I'll be heading off to Madrid for the first of two "Domaining Spain" events. Friday's event, which is being ...

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Yesterday’s Network & DNS Outage

Yesterday’s Network & DNS Outage

By Michele Neylon|2015-10-28T12:46:11+00:00October 28th, 2015|Categories: Hosting, Service Issue|Tags: Denial-of-service attack, dns, Domain Name System, hosting, Name server, network, outage, website|

Normally we don't write about service issues on this site. We have a specific site we reserve solely for that. Yesterday, ...

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