The last couple of days have been very “interesting”. As I mentioned previously, the Irish government intends to enact legislation that could have a “chilling effect”. I went into this a bit in my previous post and far more eloquent people have written extensively about the entire subject. My key issues with the legislation can [...]
Say No To An Irish SOPA Style Law Say Yes To Democracy
Remember SOPA? We didn’t like it and it was pretty clear that a lot of internet users weren’t too happy about it either. However SOPA was being debated openly in Congress. There was discussion. There were public hearings. There was also a massive backlash of public opinion, but that is one of the beauties of [...]
Happy new year again
One of the great things about being an international company is you get to celebrate lots more holidays. Of course it doesn’t generally mean you get to take time off for them. We’ve got customers in over 100 countries around the world So today (the 23rd of January 2012) it’s the Chinese new year and [...]
Use Zemanta To Improve Your Blogging
Personally I love blogging. I write for the company blog on a regular basis, but I also write on several other blogs. However I’d be the first to admit that I am not afraid of taking advantage of whatever tools I can find to help speed up the process and improve it. Zemanta, in my [...]
Measurement Tickets Up For Grabs!
Measurement is being held next month in Dublin and we’re really excited about it and Bert got all dressed up! What is it? It’s a one day conference on social media measurement ie. tracking sales etc., from social media (and other outlets) Where is it? National College of Ireland, Dublin 1 When is it? February [...]
Wikipedia And Other High Profile Sites Protest SOPA / PIPA
I posted about our thoughts on SOPA and why we were opposed to it over Christmas. In the last week or so the US government has backpedalled to a certain degree in respect of the tabled SOPA legislation, but they still want something. Whether it’s “a” SOPA, PIPA or something else is you can be [...]
Year Of The Cloud Discount
2012 is the Year of the Dragon. We decided we’d make it the “year of the cloud” by offering you all a special discount on our cloud server hosting plans What’s the offer? 20% off any annual cloud server hosting plan What is Blacknight’s cloud hosting? We offer a comprehensive range of cloud hosting plans [...]
New TLD Application Window Opens Tomorrow What Does It Mean?
Tomorrow, January 12th 2012 ICANN will open the application window for new TLDs. What on earth does that mean? Companies, organisations, groups and even cities will be applying to run their own domain name extension. What is a domain name extension? It’s the bit on the right of the dot (“.”). For example, blacknight.com [...]
Getting A Domain Name That’s Already Registered
Choosing the right domain name for your business is, arguably, one of the most important decisions you will need to make. If your business domain name isn’t easy to remember or easy to spell, then you will lose traffic. If you lose traffic you lose sales.. no sales = no revenue etc., etc. Choosing a [...]
January Blues Getting You Down? Save Big In Our Mega Hosting and Domain Name Sale!
Today’s the first day back at work in 2012 for most people. We know that a lot of people find January to be a tough month … but every cloud has a silver lining .. January is sale time! Here at Blacknight we like bringing you discounts whenever and whereever we can. This January’s sale, [...]
Happy New Year 2012
Happy New Year! 2012 should be an interesting year and hopefully it will be a good year for all of us. So what’s coming up in 2012? Well the VAT rate in Ireland has gone up as of midnight last night, which puts a bit of a downer on the start of a new year.. [...]
Blacknight Does Not Support SOPA
We’ve always been strong believers in striking as sane a balance as possible between privacy, freedom of expression and protection of both 3rd parties’ rights and due process. We maintain good relations with law enforcement, government and the security community. We take our responsibility as a good corporate citizen in the internet ecosystem very seriously. [...]
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- Warning: Irish Government Pirating Your Rights - SelfAssemblySites: [...] Michele Neylon (Blacknight) [...]...
- Stop SOPA Ireland « A Clatter of the Law: [...] Michele Neylon [...]...
- The Irish SOPA fiasco | App-V and Other Such Things: [...] My website is hosted in Ireland by a great h...
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- URGENT! Take action today to protect the Irish Internet | Life's simple little pleasures: [...] http://blog.blacknight.com/say-no-to-an-iris...
The Technology.ie Feed
- An Irish SOPA to an Irish Problem [Podcast #15] January 26, 2012
- “Yippee Doo Dah” [Podcast #14] January 19, 2012
- Kindle Fire? January 17, 2012
- Tech Heroes: Conor O’Neill January 16, 2012
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