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Happy Birthday .COM !

On 15th March 1985 the first ever .com domain was registered to Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

25 years later there are now 86 million .com domains registered, and companies like Spiral Hosting to practically give them away! Celebrate the 25th birthday of the .com domain by registering one for only €4.95 !

Simply use the promotion code ‘bday’ at checkout. Offer ends Friday 19th March 2010 at midnight.

Our big promotion for St Patrick’s Day is that we’ve reduced .IE domain registrations to €12.50!

We’re running banners on various sites such as Boards.ie and Google Ads and so we ended up designing a dozen different banner ads. Some are quite good, and some are terrible. Here’s a few of the best ones!

You are welcome to re-tweet or re-post these, or send us in your own designs! The €12.50 promotion runs until midnight on Friday 19th March 2010. No promotion code required.

Our .IN domain promotion has been extended until 30 April 2010. Dot-IN is the official domain extension for India but registration is open to anyone, anywhere. Grab one today for only €2.95 / £2.68 / $4.60 !

Why choose .in?

• International brand protection for businesses is more important than ever, and India represents the second largest nation on Earth.
• Protect your brand and open your business to a market of 1.2 billion people by registering a dot-IN domain.
• Don’t forget, there are more English-speaking people in India than the USA!

To take advantage of this price reduction, simply check for your domain’s availability. Subject to our usual T&C’s. Offer ends 30th April 2010.

The Spiral Hosting team wish all our clients a very happy St Patrick’s Day.

To celebrate we have lowered the price of .ie (Irish) domain registration to only €12.50 during St Patrick’s Week! This is the lowest price for .ie domain registration anywhere!

There’s no limit on the number of domains you can register at this price. You don’t have to host your website with us, but we’d be delighted if you do!

If you host your site with us, you can have your .ie domain name for free. Simply sign up for a web hosting package and one free domain will be included. Hosting packages start from €30/year.

.ie domains names for businesses:

• .ie domain names provide your business or organisation with a unique Irish identity. People will identify your organisation as being Irish, or having a presence in Ireland.
• Greater security and more confidence – .ie domain registrations are manually checked, which is encouraging for consumers looking to do business with you.
• Achieve a higher search engine rating. Websites using .ie domain names are ranked higher by Google.ie for Irish searches.
• For businesses, you’ll need to provide your Irish/NI Company or Business number, and possibly a signed letter if you are registering a discretionary domain name or something completely random!.

.ie domain names for individuals:

• Registration of personal domains were introduced in 2007 and they are very popular. This has contributed to record registration levels for .ie domains.
• You cannot register just your first name, or just your surname, but you can choose from lots of different formats: JohnSmith.ie, John-Smith.ie, John-Paul-Smith.ie, JSmith.ie, PaulSmith.ie etc. (more info. [PDF])
• For individuals, you will simply need to provide a scan of your Irish/NI passport, driver’s license, birth certificate or a utility bill.

If you’ve any questions, please contact us!

To take advantage of this offer, simply check for your domain’s availability. Subject to our usual T&C’s. Offer ends at midnight GMT on 19th March 2010.

The Spiral Hosting team wish all our clients a very happy St Patrick’s Day.

St Patrick’s Day is celebrated on Wednesday 17th March 2010. St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, so the 17th March is a national holiday.

On St Patrick’s Day we will be closing our phone support and operating our online support with reduced staff. Our phone support will re-open on Thursday 18th at 10am, with hangovers. Thank you for your understanding.

Spiral Hosting are offering 10% off new hosting packages and domain names in our Spring Sale!

It’s spring! There’s some sunshine and it’s sale time!

Domain names on promotion include the following TLD’s: .com .net.at .be .ch .dk .es .eu .fr .ie .me .tv .us and .ws! Hosting packages on promotion include all new Shared Hosting and Reseller Hosting packages.

To take advantage of this promotion, simply place your order normally through our hosting or domains pages and enter promo code “spring” at checkout!

If you’ve any questions, please contact us!

Subject to our usual T&C’s. Offer ends 31st March 2010.

Spiral Hosting have lowered the price of .ie (Irish) domain registration to only €16.99. This is the lowest price for .ie domain registration in Ireland. It’s the lowest price anywhere!

There’s no limit on the number of domains you can register at this price. You can place your domain order here. You don’t have to host your website with us, but we’d be delighted if you do!

If you host your site with us, you can have your .ie domain name for free. Simply sign up for a web hosting package and eligible domain names will automatically be discounted. Hosting packages start from €30/year.

Application process

The IE Domain Registry is a managed registry and therefore every .ie domain registration requires an application to be submitted. However, they have greatly relaxed the rules recently and the process is a lot less strict. We do most of the work for you!

If we need anything from you for your application, we’ll contact you once we receive your domain order. If there are any faxes or letters required, we will provide a draft letter for you to check, sign and send to us. We make it easy!

.ie domains names for businesses:

• .ie domain names provide your business or organisation with a unique Irish identity. People will identify your organisation as being Irish, or having a presence in Ireland.
• Greater security and more confidence – .ie domain registrations are manually checked, which is encouraging for consumers looking to do business with you.
• Achieve a higher search engine rating. Websites using .ie domain names are ranked higher by Google.ie for Irish searches.
• For businesses, you’ll need to provide your Irish/NI Company or Business number, and possibly a signed letter if you are registering a discretionary domain name or something completely random!.

.ie domain names for individuals:

• Registration of personal domains were introduced in 2007 and they are very popular. This has contributed to record registration levels for .ie domains.
• You cannot register just your first name, or just your surname, but you can choose from lots of different formats: JohnSmith.ie, John-Smith.ie, John-Paul-Smith.ie, JSmith.ie, PaulSmith.ie etc. (more info. [PDF])
• For individuals, you will simply need to provide a scan of your Irish/NI passport, driver’s license, birth certificate or a utility bill.

If you’ve any questions, please contact us!

To take advantage of this offer, simply check for your domain’s availability. Subject to our usual T&C’s. Offer ends 31st March 2010.

Our .IN domain promotion has been extended until 31 March 2010. Dot-IN is the official domain extension for India but registration is open to anyone, anywhere.

Why choose .in?

• International brand protection for businesses is more important than ever, and India represents the second largest nation on Earth.
• Protect your brand and open your business to a market of 1.2 billion people by registering a dot-IN domain.
• Don’t forget, there are more English-speaking people in India than the USA!

To take advantage of this price reduction, simply check for your domain’s availability. Subject to our usual T&C’s. Offer ends 31st March 2010.

There were big changes to the European Union ‘tax regime’ on 1st January 2010. As such, services we sell for “Business Use” are exempt from Value Added Tax (VAT) in 26 EU countries. We are advising all EU businesses to ensure that they are not unnecessarily paying 17.5% VAT.

Tax exemption exists for business customers in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (incl. Monaco), Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

UK businesses: There is no tax exemption for UK businesses because Spiral Hosting is registered for tax in Northern Ireland. We cannot VAT-exempt invoices for UK businesses and you will have to reclaim any VAT from HMRC.
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Spiral Hosting have today relaunched our free domains promotion. Buy any new yearly web hosting package and enjoy free domain registration for life!*

It’s really simple. Spiral Hosting will give one free domain name for every web hosting package you purchase, and we will renew it for free for the life of your web hosting package.

Our checkout system will automatically mark your domain name as free when you purchase it along with your web hosting.

If you already have a domain name elsewhere, you can choose to transfer it to us and it can be your free domain name.

Your free domain name is completely yours. You own it, control the whois information, the nameservers and everything else. We simply register it for you, for free, for life!

Here are the steps to follow:

1) Choose any web hosting package

Sizes XS – XL on Shared Hosting packages

Host 10 – Host 200 on Reseller Hosting packages

2) Choose a domain name from up to 27 extensions (TLD’s)

General extensions: .com .net .org .info .mobi .name or .biz
Country extensions: .asia .at .be .cc .ch .de .dk .es .eu .fr .ie .in .it .me .nl .tv .uk .us or .ws

The full list of domain extensions available with each package can be found on our Promotions page.

3) We’ll register your domain name for free. It can be a brand new domain registration or you can choose to transfer a domain to us if you have one registered elsewhere.

4) Every time you pay for your web hosting renewal, we will renew your domain name!

Small Print: To be eligible for your free domain, please purchase it at the same time as your webhosting. Our order system will automatically mark eligible domains as free. If you have a domain registered elsewhere please contact our support team who can help you transfer the domain to us and it can be your free domain. Other legal stuff applies.