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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 […]
Blacknight is an exhibitor at Dublin Tech Summit 2018, in partnership with EURid, the registry for the .EU domain extension.
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 […]
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 […]
I’m a strong believer in setting goals. They help me to remain focussed. We have been the largest registrar of .eu domains in Ireland for quite some time, but I really wanted to get us into the top 100 .eu domain name registrars globally. So I was delighted to get an email from one of […]
We’re often asked by people about which domain names they should register for their business. This time round we’re going to have a look at .eu What is .eu? The .eu domain is the domain name for the European Union Why should I get a .eu domain name? If you’re doing business across Europe and […]
Here at Blacknight we take domains very seriously. It’s a very serious business. We were shocked and horrified when we heard stories circulating in the “underground” about cash strapped kitties having to go to great lengths to get low cost domains. So in order to save the kitties we introduced yet another domain promotion! This time […]
I’ve mentioned IDNs (Internationalised Domain Names) a few times in the past and they were one of the topics on the agenda in Slovenia earlier this week as well. Eurid, the registry operator for .eu, has now announced that it will be launching support for IDNs on 10 December 2009. What does that mean? Simply […]
For the last couple of days I’ve been in the lovely town of Bled, Slovenia, for the 2nd International Conference for ccTLD Registries and Registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe which was organised by the .ru (Russia) registry. The conference agenda covered a wide variety of topics and was very interesting. While some of […]