As the snow recedes from the mountains and the snow machines can’t quite keep up, here’s one more chance to get in some time at the virtual slopes of .ski : from March 21 until March 31, .ski domains will be 50% off. That means they’ll be available for just $24.16 for first-year registration(versus $48.31 usually).

And with that receding snow, it’s time for gardeners and farmers alike to start planting vegetables. For bio-friendly food producers, that makes now no better a time to plant the seeds of a .bio domain, also 50% off from March 21 to March 31, 2016 (at midnight UTC). The means .bio domains, normally $63.96 per year at A rates will be available for just $31.98 for first-year registration.

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This Saturday March 19 from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm (in whatever timezone you're in) is Earth Hour. Earth Hour, for those who are not familiar, is a movement organized by our friends at WWF (along with other volunteer organizations), with the goal of bringing everyone together for one hour a year to make a statement about protecting our planet.

For just this one hour, we encourage everyone—individuals, families, communities, businesses, roommates—to turn off all non-essential lights; we'll be keeping our non-essential lights off.

And it got us thinking about other ways we can support the environment. For one, in our San Francisco office, we’re working towards a zero-waste office space, composting as much as possible, and recycling as much as we can’t compost. You can find out some of the things you can do for Earth Hour on this page. And we wanted to do something for you to be more bio-friendly as well.

So in honor of Earth Hour, from March 18-20, we’ll be offering .bio domains, the premier TLD for organic food and farming, for just $8.00 per year (normally $63.96 per year at A rates). Get one and spread the word about Earth Hour. Like the larger fight against climate change, this only works if we all pitch in.

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Today, the registry StartingDot is opening up registration of two-character domains on it’s three TLDs .archi, .bio and .ski.

Not sure what two-character domain you want?

With two characters you can just strip away all those extra, useless characters and focus on the relationship between the dialogue between just those two. What’s their history? What interesting conflicts or harmonies arise between them? With .archi, .bio and .ski domains now you decide.

Even though the rules are loosening for domains in these TLDs by allowing two-character domains, keep in mind that there are still some extra rules for .archi. Be sure to check them out.

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Birthplace of Pablo Picasso, and home of Antoni Gaudí and one of the most famous soccer teams in the world, Barcelona is as much (if not more) a vibrant city as ever.

Today, .barcelona entered the GoLive phase, so now whatever your Barcelona project may be—whether it’s a cathedral hundreds of years in the making or a nightclub that closes at 6:00 am—it can have a home online befitting it’s home on the coast of Catalyuna.

Now that it’s in the GoLive phase, domains in the .barcelona extension will now be available for $85.46 per year (at A rates).

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It’s an unwritten law that today you can pinch anyone caught not wearing green, in honor of St. Patrick and the dynamic, deep-rooted, poetic and beautiful country of which he is patron: Ireland.

St. Patrick's Day, which marks the anniversary of St. Patrick’s death, is celebrated in more countries than any other national festival. People wear green and parade through the streets of cities not just in Ireland but in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Russia, even Japan and South Korea.

The traditional Irish street ballad, “The Wearing of the Green,” remembers a time when it was made illegal across Ireland to wear green or celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. The version by playwright Dion Boucicault foreshadows the Irish exodus, especially to the New World:

But if at last our colour should be torn from Ireland's heart,
Our sons with shame and sorrow from this dear old isle will part;
I've heard a whisper of a land that lies beyond the sea
Where rich and poor stand equal in the light of freedom's day

And in fact, some of the biggest and most famous celebrations are in the US. Chicago famously dyes the Chicago River green every year. Many cities, like Indianapolis, emulate this tradition and massive events are held in traditional Irish-American enclaves like Boston and New York.

How can you celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Gandi? Well, we have a few ideas. For one, we have a promotion currently on-going for a word we in the US reserve for specifically Irish bars: .pub (currently $7.00 per year). But you can also wear green with a .green domain (currently $95.30). For Irish Catholics, on St. Patrick’s Day, Lenten restrictions on alcohol consumption are lifted, so why not have a pint of .beer (presently $38.34 per year)? Of course, a .irish domain (currently $47.82) would be a natural choice, as would .holiday (right now $52.65), St. Patrick’s Day being a holiday after all.

It wouldn’t be St. Patrick's Day if you didn’t, at least, have one .dance ($24.44 currently), now, would it? Nor would it be the same without the Irish-American .community (now $38.34) behind it.

So, we can think of a few ways to celebrate Irish heritage.

And while you’re at it, why not throw in some love for other Gallic cultures? For the Welsh, there’s .cymru and .wales ($21.00 each). For Brittany, there’s .bzh
($66.00). For Scots, there’s  .scot ($55.48) and for Galicia, there’s .gal ($114.19).

However you choose to celebrate, happy St. Patrick's Day!

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.コム (.xn--tckwe) is the translation of the extension .com in Japanese. March 15 to May 15, 2016, is the priority registration period during which current .COM owners can register the perfect match of their domain name in .コム.

If you already have .COM domains, and your website uses Japanese characters, then this is your chance to grab your site a Japanese address.

If you don't have .COM domains yet, you can wait for Landrush period which will start on May 16, when a .コム domain can be registered for US$224.83 per year at A-rate. The Landrush period will then end on June 12.

Starting June 13, .コム will enter GoLive phase when it will be available for everyone for US$16.79 at A rates.

With every new gTLD that pops up it’s like a whole new frontier on the Internet has opened up. And there’s no wider opener space than .space itself.

There’s .space to move, .space to breath, .space to think, or even .space for your stuffed koala collection.

And now for a limited time, from March 15, 2016 until April 14, 2016 at 4:59 PM PDT, you .space is just $1.99 per year.

Make .space?

Please, please, behind the velvet ropes.

Back up, back up. We’ve got a very important TLD coming through: .vip. Today it enters the Sunrise phase, which will last until 4:59 PM PDT on May 8, 2016. This TLD is obviously VIP-only, the Sunrise phase is really for the top crust. Domains in this extension will sell for $1078.74 per year, and you’ll have to show us your SMD file (from TMCH) to prove you’re VIP enough to own the trademark on it.

There won’t be any Landrush phase for this TLD, but it will enter the GoLive phase at 9:00 AM PDT on May 23, 2016, when the doors will open to all VIPs for just $38.65 per year at A rates.

Are you a .vip?

This isn’t the greatest story ever told. But we’re hoping it’s a close second: today, the .bible TLD enters the GoLive phase. That means that registration is open to all for $151.38 per year at A rates.

As in the real Bible, you just need to follow a few simple rules (click here for the specific Acceptable Use Policy). No floods or plagues will smite you if you don’t, but you may lose your domain.

Otherwise, thine is the domain name, the power to link it to your site, and the glory. Forever and ever. Or at least until you decide not to renew it. Amen.

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If you’re in most of the English-speaking world you might go to a pub once a day, once a week, once a month or less but in North America a pub is a place you go just one day per year: St. Patrick’s Day. The one day when everybody is Irish (especially if they’re not actually Irish).

And now that that time of year is rolling around, we thought it was a perfect opportunity to make going to the .pub a bit more affordable by making putting .pub on sale for just $7.00 per year (as opposed to the normal $38.34 at A rates), from March 7 to March 18, 2016 (Irish time of course).

So listen to a jig, wear green, and maybe even do something authentically Irish. And of course, go out to the .pub.

What’ll it be?