For U.S.merchants, Black Friday is a huge extravaganza of deals offered and prices dropped in an attempt to entice as many shoppers as possible through their doors. In light of this sort of retail holiday, Jon Holmquist founded Bitcoin Black Friday. This year will mark the third iteration of this event and plans are already in motion to make it even bigger than last year.

Save the date: Black Friday (and therefore Bitcoin Black Friday) takes place this year on Friday, November 28th.

And, for those champing at the bit to know the deals, stay tuned for Wednesday, November 26th when the Black Friday offers will be revealed.

Stories of Bitcoin Black Fridays past

In 2012 Bitcoin Black Friday saw 300 merchants; 2013 doubled that with 600; but, in 2014, Holmquist says that the event is aiming for a staggering 6,000 merchants.

The official announcement on the BitcoinTalk forums includes a few of the merchants who will be participating this year. And, for those interested, there have been giveaways each Friday this November leading up to Black Friday. The next giveaway is November 21 and simply signing up on the mailing list (from the website) puts you into the raffle.

Two merchants from 2013s Bitcoin Black Friday stand out: Namecheap and Bees Brothers.

Namecheap is a domain registration, hosting, and management service in operation since 2001 that has been accepting bitcoins as payment since March 2013. The domain registrar participated in Bitcoin Black Friday 2013 as one of the 600 merchants and offered deals on domains to buyers who used bitcoin.

Theodore Worcester, Head of Product at Namecheap, told SiliconAngle that the company sees a surprisingly high number of users paying for services with bitcoins. The team at Namecheap support Bitcoin Black Friday and think that its a really important event to raise awareness around the retailers that embrace and support bitcoin.

Bees Brothers is an interesting family owned and operated honey business out of Cache Valley, Utah and a bitcoin success story. The company has participated in Bitcoin Black Friday 2012 and 2013 and saw a huge influx of orders from both.

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Bitcoin Black Friday 2014 plans to be bigger than ever with 6,000 merchant deals