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You know it’s always nice when you’re ending the week on a high. This weekend we’re going in knowing that we’ve helped get 10,000 businesses online for free in Ireland, we’ve new staff starting, we’re continuing to expand and we’ve gone and won a Sockie not to mention we’ll be launching new products and services [...]

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Press Release: Blacknight Announce Over 10,000 Irish Businesses Are Participating in Getting Business Online

We put this release out earlier today about the first year of the Getting Business Online project. It’s been an interesting year! So far the story has been picked up in a few media outlets including: DomainIncite: Even when the domains are free, Irish small businesses prefer .com to .ie   Here’s the release: May [...]

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I Love My BRICS

In a rare occurrance yesterday Michele Neylon, Managing Director of Blacknight,  put on a suit. It wasn’t however for a funeral as one might expect when you’re dealing with Michele and suits. It was hopefully for the birth of something great. It was of course if you’ve been following any of our recent blog posts [...]

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Want A Few SEO Tips?

As some of you may know we also run a weekly podcast over on technology.ie This week our guest was Paul Savage, who also provided a guest post on this blog previously. He talked to us about search engine optimisation and about some of the things to avoid. If you’d like to learn a little [...]

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Be Happy!

We haven’t done any “silly” promotions for a while, so we’re making up for lost time this week! From now until the end of June you’ll be able to get a .be domain name for only €3.99 (registration or transfer) What is .be? Well it’s the country code for Belgium – the country that brings [...]

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Celebrate Europe Day

Today is Europe Day, so we thought we’d do a couple of small things to celebrate. First off we’re going to give away a few .eu key rings – watch our Facebook page for details. Secondly to help businesses that want to explore the EU market we’re offering a nice discount on .eu domain name [...]

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Bert’s Happy As Blacknight Made The Finals Of The Social Media Awards

Bert and the entire Blacknight team are delighted that we’ve made it into the finals for the Social Media Awards. The list of finalists was announced last night and we’re really honoured to have made it this far. Best of luck to everyone! Here’s our press release on the announcement that’s going out this afternoon: [...]

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Become At One With Your UK Domain

As of today you can register OR renew UK domain names for up to 10 years! So if you have your .com, .eu, .me or .co domain name already registered for a full 10 year period you can now do the same with your co.uk. I’m a strong believer in “eating our own dogfood”, so [...]

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Press Release: Blacknight Announce Sponsorship of IIA Annual Conference 2012

Carlow, May 1st 2012 Blacknight announce sponsorship of the Irish Internet Association Annual Conference 2012 “Building BRICS”. The conference, which will be held Thursday May 10, 2012 at Aviva Stadium, promotes a theme of  “Enabling Business Expansion” and will focus on social media, localisation and mobile. The IIA Annual Conference is not just for tech [...]

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New IE Domain Promotional Graphics – What Do You Think?

IEDR have made available a number of graphics to promote .ie domain names. Here they are:   What do you think of them? Related articles IE Domains Break 175 Thousand Mark And Reports Growth (internetnews.me)

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Speed Up Your WordPress Content Creation

One of the great features of WordPress is the ease at which you can add Pages and Posts to a site.  With a simple click you can create, edit and publish content.  So for a once off website creation you can be up and running in literally a few hours if you know what structures [...]

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Paypal Users – Check Your Code!

Paypal are making some subtle, yet important, changes in how they handle redirects and landing pages for their merchants ie. those of us who use Paypal as a method of accepting payments. If you don’t accept payments using Paypal then this will not impact you. At the moment if you are an Irish Paypal user [...]

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