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Remember 365 selling to UK company Names.co.uk?
Well seemingly Names.co.uk like to overcharge their clients ...

I already mentioned their pricing policy on co.uk transfers out, but they've since gone on to expand that to include com/net/org/info/biz domains. Don't believe me?

Check out this screenshot from the Register365 / Namesco control panel (click to enlarge):


Or how about this invoice a client paid recently for the "right" to move his domain elsewhere (click to enlarge):


So in simple terms if you are NOT happy with their service and want to change provider you will get billed for changing YOUR domains to a new provider.

Aren't they great?

Companies behaving in this manner give a bad name to the entire industry and really make me sick. While I may have had my differences with the previous owners of register365 I somehow doubt that they'd have stooped this low!

And to make matters all the more interesting ..

I'm getting reports from some clients that the charges are being imposed, while others are being told that they can leave without having to pay - what about the people who don't question charges?

NB: Yes I have a vested interest in the hosting and domain industry and I don't hide it. On the other hand I would never be interested in running a company that abused registrants in this manner - there are plenty of ways to make money, messing your clients about isn't one of them

First there was Jaiku, then there was twitter (and again)...

Now I've setup a Blacknight thing on Facebook...

If you're on Facebook then why not join us - I'll probably push out a few "special" promotions to our facebook fans in the coming weeks, but I want to get at least 100 fans on there before I consider it (setting goals makes it easier in some ways ....)

And if anyone who knows anything about managing Facebook pages has any tips please do share !!

Since I'm still in a bit of shock after the Net Visionary Awards the other evening, I'll keep this short..

On the awards themselves...

I am amazed, stunned and humbled that I actually won two awards on the night. I'm always delighted to be shortlisted for awards, but since I'd never actually won any winning two blew me away.

Being nominated for the Internet Marketer award came as a surprise to me and being shortlisted for it was a big surprise. But to actually win that award blew me away completely! I would never have imagined that I could win, so when they announced it the other evening I was left completely and utterly speechless. I wouldn't consider myself to be a marketer and I'd have expected a professional marketer to win - not me!

It was a fantastic night in a wonderful venue and a great chance to meet up with a bunch of people who I haven't seen in a long time (plus a chance to meet people I'd never actually met in person before)

Congratulations to all the other winners, especially Pat Phelan, who got the overall Net Visionary award.

A sincere thanks to everyone who has helped me and the company over the last few years and to those who voted for me this year - I really really appreciate it.

Now my only problem is where do I put those great big lumps of crystal... It's a nice problem to have!

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IIA and Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary awards Net Visionary Awards Tomorrow Night!

I posted about this yesterday on the company blog, but forgot to mention it over here ....

We've managed to secure a deal for our clients that can give them up to 75 euro of free advertising credit with Google Adwords.

More details on the blog and offer page

Cool stuff is great and discounts are even better, so I thought I'd share two little things with you:

After months and months of pain suffering, pulling of teeth (and hair) we've finally put our new hosting plans "live".

At the moment you can access them via our development site. We'll be switching the domain across at some point tomorrow.

I suspect there are errors, omissions, typos and all that on the site, so if you spot anything please do let us know

What's new?

Why don't you head on over and see for yourself!!!

Hopefully people won't be disappointed

Damn - two Blacknight related posts in the one morning ....

Anyhow .. .As of about half an hour ago we've dropped the price on IE domains to 21 euro.

Go to our main site to check for available domains or to transfer your existing domains.

We've just revamped the VPS hosting site to make the order process a bit simpler.

We know it doesn't display properly in Safari, but this will be fixed.

We finally launched our VPS hosting plans about 20 minutes ago.

You can now choose between Centos or Windows Server 2003 powered VPS with optional Plesk!

Paul and I had been working on ironing out the last few bugs and annoying issues on the site for most of this evening, which is why I still haven't eaten anything (not that I can't go without food for a few days - I have plenty of surplus!)

There are probably issues, typos and other errors on the site which we haven't spotted, so if you do notice anything odd please let us know: management@blacknight.com OR simply leave a comment here.

We'll probably be making the official announcement / launch in the morning