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Eggs.. Bunnies and Domains

By Michele Neylon on April 2, 2010 in cctlds, Domains, dotinfo, dotme, dotmobi, dotorg, dottel, eurid, Promotions

This weekend it’s Easter, so there’ll be lots of Easter Eggs and fluffy chicks and all that kind of stuff for children of all ages.. So on behalf of everyone here at Blacknight I’d like to wish you all a very happy and peaceful Easter. Enjoy the break if you’re taking it .. Now we […]

St Patrick’s Day Domain Special Blowout

By Michele Neylon on March 15, 2010 in afilias, cctlds, Domains, dotinfo, dotme, dotmobi, dotorg, dottel, eurid, icann, iedr, Marketing, Promotions, verisign

Blacknight is a 100% Irish owned and run company. It’s something we’re very proud of. We’re also the only Irish ICANN accredited registrar, we’re the biggest Eurid registrar, the biggest Nominet registrar etc.,, (You get the point?) For 51 weeks of the year we don’t “push” our Irishness, or at least not overtly .. However, […]

A Busy Few Weeks

By Michele Neylon on September 19, 2009 in afilias, cctlds, Domains, dotinfo, dotme, dotmobi, dotorg, dottel, eurid, icann, iedr, nominet, verisign

Over the last few weeks we’ve been working hard on launching a bunch of domain extensions on our own accreditation. While the main focus of our attention has been on getting the more popular domain extensions up and running (ie. com / net / org / info / biz / mobi etc.,) we’ve also ended […]

DotOrg Now Live

By Michele Neylon on September 15, 2009 in Blacknight, Domains, dotorg, icann

Late yesterday afternoon we “put live” our .org accreditation. DotOrg, which is run by Public Interest Registry, is quite a different concept to the more popular .com. While .org can be registered by anyone and used for just about anything, the extension has always had a strong focus on non-commercial users eg. NGOs, foundations, research […]