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The Clock Is Ticking .. DotBlog Goes Live Tomorrow!

20th November 2016 by Michele Leave a Comment

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Tomorrow afternoon at 1500 UTC, which also happens to be 1500 here in Ireland, .blog will finally go into “general availability”.

In other words, anyone who wants to register a .blog domain name will be able to do so without any restrictions.

Sure, the registry has got a bunch of “premium” names and there’s also some names that are “registry reserved”, but neither list is terribly long, so there are plenty of good names available for registration at standard fees.

Personally I’ve placed a few pre-orders for some domain names that I thought would be nice to have. Whether I’ll get them all or not remains to be seen 🙂

Internally I know that several of our staff are interested in getting .blog domain names, so we’ve setup a special discount code for our own staff’s use to give them a discount. Hopefully a few of them will take us up on that offer!

As for the public? Well keep an eye on our main blog (which uses a .blog domain name!) for news of special offers and discounts on .blog and other domains and services – we’ll be working with the registry in the coming months to put together some attractive offers.

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Michele Neylon is the founder and managing director of Ireland’s largest registrar and hosting provider Blacknight.
Michele is an active and often outspoken member of the Internet industry both in his native Ireland and internationally.
He is actively involved in Internet policy development, and has served as a member of ICANN’s GNSO Council as a representative of domain registrars. He is also involved with policy development for several domain registries, including .IE, .EU and .US. He previously served as chair of i2Coalition and is a member of the Names and Numbers Steering committee of eco. Michele received the Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Award in 2013 and was named one of Ireland’s 30 Technology Disruptors at The Spiders Awards in 2019.

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