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We’ve recently added .EU domain names, to our free domain bundle package. Want a .EU domain name? You can have it free for the first year, if you buy a 12 or 36-month web hosting or BaseKit siteBuilder plan together with it*! Why choose .EU? Well, if European identity is part of your brand or marketing, then […]
Dublin Tech Summit gets underway today at the Convention Centre Dublin, and Blacknight is there with EURid, the EU domain registry. Come and say hello! We’re at stand D6, to the right of the hall as you enter, and near the stage. To celebrate, we’ve cut the price of .EU domains! Normally €6.95, you can […]
Have you got a .EU domain name? If so, you should enter the .EU Web Awards before nominations close on 4 July. We like Europe. We like its cultures and languages, its diversity and differences. As an Irish SME, we especially like the things which are the same across many countries in Europe, like freedom of […]
How would you like to win €5 thousand to promote your website? How about an expenses paid trip to Brussels? Sound intriguing? The .eu registry, EUrid, announced the “EU Web Awards” last week and it’s pretty exciting. The competition is free to enter and all you need to do is be running a cool site […]
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 […]
From today until Monday night we’re running some special discount offers across a range of domain names and other services. “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” may have started out in the US, but they’ve become pretty popular over this side of the world too.. so we thought we’d join in. So what are the offers? […]
Today is Europe Day, so we thought we’d do a couple of small things to celebrate. First off we’re going to give away a few .eu key rings – watch our Facebook page for details. Secondly to help businesses that want to explore the EU market we’re offering a nice discount on .eu domain name […]
Today’s the first day back at work in 2012 for most people. We know that a lot of people find January to be a tough month … but every cloud has a silver lining .. January is sale time! Here at Blacknight we like bringing you discounts whenever and whereever we can. This January’s sale, […]
We like bringing special offers and discounts to you, so here’s one for anyone who wants to target the European market and register (or transfer) a .eu domain name. Register a .eu domain name for 1 year at the reduced rate of only €3.99 between now and Christmas Already got a .eu domain name with […]
Over the past few weeks our technical team have been working on integrating IDN domain names. IDN domains are “internationalised” so with an IDN domain name you can put in the accents like the “fada” in Irish, or the Spanish N (Ñ) directly into the domain name.So, for example, I’ve registered Mícheál.eu, while other members […]
We unveiled one of the elements of our .eu marketing campaign a few days ago when we announced the availability of multi-year .eu domain name registrations (and renewals). Our choice of imagery seems to have struck a chord in some parts! So today we’re unveiling the next phase of our master plan (queue Dr Evil […]
.eu multi-year registrations and renewals are available as of this morning. Here’s our press release: April 7 2011 – Carlow, Ireland – Multi-year registrations are now available for .EU domains and Blacknight Solutions is celebrating. Michele Neylon of the Carlow based registrar wants you to know that ” Blacknight will be offering a number of […]