The Irish Internet Association’s Annual Congress is being held in Dublin on May 17th in the Fitzpatrick Hotel, Killiney. This year’s theme is “Buy, Sell and Do Business Online” and the event’s organisers have been working on a great lineup from all the big names in the online industry. Participants this year include Bebo, Google, [...]
Archive | March, 2007
Blacknight March Madness! As Mad as a March Hare! IE Domains Only 25 Euros! One week only!
Here at Blacknight we don’t release fluffy press releases. We believe in giving you value for money and great service. So, for one week only – ie. until Friday March 30th 2007 – we will be dropping the price of IE domains. Register a new .ie domain for a mere 25 euro ex-vat. Already got [...]
ICANN Lisbon
I’ll be heading off to Lisbon in the morning to represent Blacknight at the ICANN meeting. It should be an interesting few days, especially in light of recent developments with XXX, ccTLDs, the launch of .asia and a whole lot more. A number of people who were at Domain Fest in LA earlier this year [...]
Patrick’s Weekend 2007
This weekend is a long weekend in Ireland, as it’s St Patrick’s day on Saturday. St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, just in case you didn’t know. In time honoured tradition the entire nation of Ireland will be celebrating a collective hangover on Monday. In order for this to be practical we have [...]
Hardware Upgrades – The Unplanned Variety!
One of the downsides to running your own network and managing all your own hardware is that you have to fix it when it breaks! As we’ve mentioned several times in the past, we have been investing a lot in new hardware over the past year or so. However, even with shiny new hardware, you [...]
Don’t Lose Your Domain!!
Domains are big business. Domains are big for business. Regardless of whether you are looking at domain names from the aspect of a domain provider or simply that of a user eg. a company or hobbyist, keeping your domain name is never more important than when you lose it. Like so many other things you [...]
What is a maintenance window?
Sometimes people misunderstand the emails we send them. In some cases this is due to our (ab)use of the English language, whereas in others it’s simply a case of the language / terminology / jargon being susceptible to confusion. One such instance is that of “maintenance windows”. They seem to cause a lot of worry [...]
MySQL 5 Now Available on Windows
Just to let you all know that MySQL 5 is now available on our Windows 2003 server plans. We hope to make it available on Linux shortly If you have any questions about it please let us know
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