Archive | October, 2006

Verisign Implements Changes to com transfers

By on October 31, 2006 in Domains, irishblogs, News

Verisign, which manages the registry of .com and .net, have recently moved their platform over to use EPP. While this is primarily a “backend” change it also affects both ourselves and our clients. As you may be aware to transfer a .org, .info or .biz domain you need a special code or key. This is [...]

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It@Cork Podcast Series

By on October 23, 2006 in Events, irishblogs, News, Podcasting

I like us to get involved with interesting projects, so when Tom Raftery asked us if we’d be interested in sponsoring the It@Cork conference this year I was interested. Rather than merely shoving our name on the sponsors’ list we’re actually sponsoring the pre-conference podcast series, where Tom will be speaking to some of the [...]

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Net Visionary 2006 Nominee

Logos for Net Visionary Nominees and Sponsors

By on October 14, 2006 in Blogging, Hosting, irishblogs, News, Podcasting

If you have been nominated for a Net Visionary Award this year you can now put a tasty logo on your website or blog. (The sponsors haven’t been left out either, as you can see from the main page of this blog.) Adding the logo to your blog is quite easy. In my case I [...]

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Free SpreadShirt Upgrades!!!! Save 60 Euro!

By on October 12, 2006 in Blogging, irishblogs, Marketing, News, Tips

We’ll be letting all our clients know about this really cool special offer later today, but I thought I’d give our blog readers the inside track first. Blacknight in partnership with SpreadShirt is offering free upgrades to the premium SpreadShirt shops. This upgrade will save you €60!! Spreadshirt is an online platform that allows you [...]

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IIA NetVisionaries 2006 – Don’t forget to vote

By on October 10, 2006 in Blogging, Events, irishblogs, News, Podcasting

We are proud sponsors of the Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards again this year. This year’s awards sees the introduction of two new categories that reflect the growing popularity of the media in question – namely blogging and podcasting. Here at Blacknight we’re passionate about new technologies, so it’s little surprise that several of [...]

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The Big Move 2006 – In English

By on October 3, 2006 in Hosting, irishblogs, News

At the end of last week our technical team sent out a notification to a group of clients to forewarn them of a pending IP renumbering. As this kind of thing is quite technical I thought people might appreciate a more detailed explanation. The explanation will include technical information, but hopefully it will be easier [...]

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BarCamp Cork – Thanks to the organisers

By on October 2, 2006 in Blogging, Events, irishblogs, Podcasting

I was down in Cork on Saturday for BarCamp which we were sponsoring. I had a really good time and met some really interesting people. None of this would have been possible without the hard work of the organisers and volunteers, so I’d like to take this chance to thank them for all their selfless [...]

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