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Billing System Maintenance Tonight

By Michele Neylon|2008-06-05T12:46:30+01:00June 5th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, eCommerce, Irish Blogs, Maintenance|Tags: blacknight, domains, hosting, maintenance, service|

We're doing some maintenance on our billing system this evening from around 8pm (Irish time) to around 9pm. During this ...

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Dotie Drop Day – Get Them While They’re Fresh

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-23T10:04:09+01:00May 23rd, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, IEDR, Irish Blogs, Tips|Tags: deleted domains, domain registration, domains, dropcatching, ie, register domains|

At 12 today the IE Domain Registry will do it's latest domain deletion run. If you're on the lookout for ...

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EU Domain Orders / Updates Unavailable This Saturday

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-21T20:26:52+01:00May 21st, 2008|Categories: Domains, EURid|Tags: domains, eurid, maintenance|

Due to maintenance being conducted by Eurid, the organisation that manages dotEU, we will be unable to process new registrations ...

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It’s Scam Time (again!)

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-21T10:20:32+01:00May 21st, 2008|Categories: Domains, eCommerce, Email, Irish Blogs, Security, Tips|Tags: domains, email, eu business services, scams|

Every time I write one of these "heads up" posts I silently hope and pray that it will be the ...

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DotAsia Auctions Controversy

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-20T09:47:11+01:00May 20th, 2008|Categories: Domains, dotAsia, dotTel, EURid|Tags: auctions, domains, dotasia, doteu, dottel, eurid, landrush, pool, sunrise, trademarks|

Every time a new TLD launches the registry operators have to come up with ways of distributing "premium" names. Premium ...

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IE Domain Prices Slashed Again

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-13T10:53:58+01:00May 13th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, IEDR, Irish Blogs, Marketing, News|Tags: cctld, domains, ie, pricing|

As of a few minutes ago we have dropped the price of IE domains across the board. No special links ...

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IE Zone Reloads More Frequent

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-09T13:28:51+01:00May 9th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, IEDR, Irish Blogs, News, Tips|Tags: domains, ie, ireland, irish, registry, zone|

I'm delighted to announce that the IE zone rebuilds are now more frequent. The new zone rebuild times are: 10:00, ...

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IE Domain Registry Breaks 100 Thousand

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-17T21:25:35+01:00April 17th, 2008|Categories: Domains, IEDR, Irish Blogs, News|Tags: domains, ie, registrant, registry, statistics|

Today is a historical day for the IE namespace, as it has finally breached the one hundred thousand domain barrier. ...

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Don’t Be Held To Ransom!

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-16T00:55:23+01:00April 16th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, EURid, Hosting, ICANN, IEDR, Irish Blogs, Legal Issues, Nominet, Tips|Tags: domains, icann, policy, registrants, registrars, registries, resellers|

At times I feel like I'm a broken record. I keep finding myself saying the same thing to people, possibly ...

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Verisign To Up The Price of .com

By Michele Neylon|2008-03-29T11:19:09+00:00March 29th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, Irish Blogs, Tips, Verisign|Tags: domains, pricing, registrars, registries, verisign|

Verisign, the company that manages the .com registry, will be increasing the price of .com domains by 7% again this ...

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Blacknight On WebmasterRadio.fm

By Michele Neylon|2008-03-20T10:08:01+00:00March 20th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, dotAsia, EURid, Hosting, ICANN, IEDR, IPv6, Irish Blogs, Marketing, Network, News, Nominet, Podcasting, Redundancy, Verisign|Tags: domains, download, icann, internet, interview, podcast, radio, webmaster radio|

Journalists call from time to time asking me to talk about various internet related topics. Most of the time the ...

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DomainFest Kicks Off This Morning

By Michele Neylon|2008-01-21T16:46:45+00:00January 21st, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, Events, Irish Blogs|Tags: auctions, domainfest, domains, events|

Registration for this year's DomainFest will be opening in little over an hour's time at 10am PST. The organisers of ...

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