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Asian IDNs Now Available Under .Co

By on May 10, 2013 in .co, Domains, Press Releases

We’ve mentioned IDNs in the past. Basically an IDN domain name allows you to register using non-ASCII characters. At the simplest level that might be the addition of an accent to a vowel, but if your native language is Arabic, Greek, Chinese, Korean etc., then it’s an entirely different character set. Of course IDN domain [...]

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Important: Automating Diskspace and Bandwidth (Traffic) Over-usage Notices

By on May 7, 2013 in Hosting

From the 27th of May 2013 we will be automating both our bandwidth (traffic) and disk space over-usage notifications and billing. While our shared hosting plans provide generous allowances for both disk space and bandwidth (traffic) a busy site might be using more resources than the plan you’re on so either reducing usage or upgrading [...]

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Celebrate 10 Years Of Blacknight & Win A Google Nexus 7!

By on May 3, 2013 in Competitions

10 years ago this month my business partner and I sat down and signed the paperwork to incorporate the company. 10 years later and we’re still here. Over the coming weeks we’ll be talking a bit about what we’ve been up to over the last 10 years. It’s been great so far, though it’s also [...]

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Save big on .xxx domain name registrations in the month of May

NSFW! Save BIG On XXX Domains

By on May 1, 2013 in Domains, Promotions, xxx

We love a special offer and we love being able to bring you BIG ones. The temptation to make silly puns with this one is strong, so I’ll cut to the chase .. Register a .xxx domain name during the month of May and you’ll get a HUGE saving. We’re only charging €8.95 (ex-VAT) per [...]

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Every Time You Register A Domain Name with a Hyphen, a Puppy Dies

Think of the Puppies!

By on May 1, 2013 in Domains, Events, Press Releases

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m passionate about the Internet. They’ll probably also tell you that I’m very passionate about domains and marketing. A good domain, in my opinion, can make or break a business. If you’re too “clever” people won’t be able to find you, or send you email. Sure, if you’re a [...]

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Patch up WordPress ( please )

By on April 25, 2013 in security, Tips, WordPress

Waking up today and we’re hearing about more issues with certain plugins so once again here’s the type of blog post you see quite a bit on here. It’s namely the keep your website up to date post. You generally keep the software on your computer up to date don’t you? There are new features, [...]

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Press Release: Irish registrar says New RAA is a step in the right direction

By on April 23, 2013 in News, policy, Press Releases

Following up on my blog post from earlier we just sent this out to the media: Blacknight Announce New ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement Irish registrar says New RAA is a step in the right direction. April 23, 2013 – Carlow, Ireland – Leading Irish domain registrar Blacknight, announces positive changes to the New ICANN Registrar [...]

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New Domain Registration Agreement Recognises Local Law and Privacy

By on April 23, 2013 in Domains, icann, policy

I’ve spoken about the RAA (Registrar Accreditation Agreement) in the past. I haven’t always been too positive about the planned changes to the contract and considering some of the things we were being asked to do my reaction was, in my view, quite reasonable. Not only did some versions of the text demand far too [...]

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Domaining Spain 2013 Valencia

The Domains In Spain Fall Mainly On ..

By on April 22, 2013 in Domains, Events, newtlds

Next week I’ll be heading off to Valencia in Spain for Domaining Spain 2013. I’ll be speaking on a panel next Thursday afternoon which will be focussed on new TLDs. The panel will include myself, Tim Switzer from .Green and Xavier Buck (EuroDNS). Tim and I have been playing email ping pong about the panel [...]

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RIPE 66 Dublin May 2013

RIPE Coming To Dublin And We’re Sponsoring AND Speaking

By on April 16, 2013 in Events

Next month RIPE 66 will be held in Dublin. And not only will we be attending, but we’re also sponsoring it and I’ll be speaking at it. I’ve been to several RIPE meetings in the past and they’re an interesting mix of material covering both policy and highly technical topics. This time round I’m speaking [...]

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Brute Force Attack

Defending Against A Massive WordPress Brute Force Attack

By on April 15, 2013 in Hosting, network, security, Service Issue, WordPress

Over the last few days there has been quite a bit of media attention on a very large attack against self-hosted WordPress sites. As the largest host of WordPress powered sites in Ireland we were impacted as well and have been tracking this attack closely. Last Tuesday we began to see high load on a [...]

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RIP

Reduced staff Friday the 12th of April 2013

By on April 10, 2013 in General

As a mark of respect to Mr Thomas Kelly (beloved father of Paul Kelly (Blacknight founder and CTO), the Blacknight offices will be closed Friday 12th April until 2:00 PM and will operate a reduced staff number on the sales / service desk for live-chats and email . The offices will re-open for normal business [...]

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