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Here at Blacknight we are directly accredited to offer a lot of domain name extensions, both country code names, as well as generic ones. We work closely with a lot of the domain name registries to offer our clients a broad range of choices when it comes to setting up their “online home”. Some domain […]
Wouldn’t it be great if you could register a .ie domain name as quickly and easily as a .com? Imagine being able to order a .ie domain name for your business and be guaranteed to get it? Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? And it’s not “pie in the sky”. We’ve always felt that the rules and […]
The Belgian domain name registry operator DNS Belgium recently announced changes to their terms and conditions. These changes are not that dramatic and the registry will be contacting all impacted registrants directly. If you are the registrant of a .be domain name you can review the updated terms, the old terms and the main changes […]
It’s Friday, so I thought re-using a cat picture was the purrfect choice. Since yesterday it’s possible to register .ie domain names with accents (fadas). It’s something we’ve been talking about for several months over on Fada.ie. So if your company or business name (or idea) is in the Irish language (an gaeilge) you can […]
If you’re Irish, or live and work in Ireland, you’ll know that a LOT of Irish words, and more specifically, names include fadas. The fada is an accent on a vowel which is used in the Irish language to elongate the sound. So you can get á é í ó ú in many Irish place […]
The IEDR have published some details on .ie domain name registrations during 2015. Here are some of the key details: 35,225 new .ie domains registered in 2015, a 13% increase on 2014 Nearly 100 .ie domain names registered per day (96) Net additions (new registrations less non-renewed .ie domain registrations) up 48%, the highest number […]
Most people and small businesses aren’t interested in domain name policy. Unless something impacts them directly, why on earth would they care? I don’t blame them. If I wasn’t involved in this “space” I wouldn’t have got involved with domain name policy either, but policies have a direct and tangible impact on how we […]
The internet is global, but, as we often like to remind people, it’s also incredibly local. With the launch of so many new top level domains (the bit on the right of the dot) throughout this year consumers and businesses are going to get used to seeing businesses advertising their products and services with new and […]
It’s been 8 years since the .eu domain name launched. Now with well over 3 million domain names registered the .eu domain is one of the largest in the world (7th largest ccTLD according to the latest report from CENTR) The guys over at EUrid have released a graphic to illustrate some of the highlights […]
In a couple of weeks’ time the IEDR will be rolling out some changes to their technical systems. While most of the changes will only impact us, as a registrar and how our systems interact with the IEDR’s some of the changes will impact registrants of .ie (Irish) domain names. The most important change is […]
We’re announcing a nice discount deal on .us domain names. If you register a .us domain name and get an annual website hosting plan at the same time you’ll get the .us domain name for only EUR5.99 (ex-VAT) for the first year. You can read a bit more about .us domain names and why we […]
The internet is global, but it’s also local. What do I mean? If you’re an Irish business you probably have a .ie domain name. If you’re based in the UK then you probably have a co.uk website. Why? Because people expect you to and they know and trust the concept of “local”. If you want […]