Archive | April, 2007

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Verified by Visa / 3D Secure – Minor Changes to Payment Processing

By on April 25, 2007 in General

Over the last couple of weeks our developers have been working closely with both Realex and our bank to integrate 3D Secure / Verified by Visa. If you want to know more about how the verified by Visa / 3D Secure system works there is a lot of information about it available on the Visa [...]

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Blogging Talk Mullingar

By on April 25, 2007 in Blacknight, Blogging, Events, irishblogs

I just got back from Mullingar a couple of hours ago where I was a guest of the Westmeath County Enterprise Board and the IIA. The event, which was entitled “Using the Internet and Blogging to Increase Sales”, was highly enjoyable and featured a great panel: Maryrose Lyons – who gave a talk on content [...]

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Telephone Issues This Morning

By on April 24, 2007 in Blacknight, irishblogs

Our 1850 is out of order this morning so please ring our “normal” number: +353 59 9183072 Sorry for any inconvenience!

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Are you Paying TOO much for your domains?

By on April 20, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, irishblogs, Tips

Are you spending too much on domains and hosting? Do you feel that you are getting ripped off? If you check out the pricing of domain names with some of the other Irish providers you will get a nasty shock. Why on earth would anyone want to spend over €80 per annum on a .ie [...]

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Security, security, security

By on April 19, 2007 in Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, security

Security should not be an afterthought and when you flaunt it too much you will end up regretting it. While a hosting provider can do their utmost to make their network and servers as secure as possible there are limits. Our clients want to be able to use technologies such as PHP, Ruby on Rails, [...]

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RegisterFly To Handover Data To ICANN

By on April 18, 2007 in Domains, irishblogs, News

Although I normally don’t talk about what other companies are up to here, the RegisterFly situation is of such gravity that it would be silly not to. It also affects a small number of our clients. If you haven’t been following the news in the media (both online and offline) let me summarise it for [...]

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Come to the Irish Internet Association Congress With Blacknight

By on April 16, 2007 in Blacknight, ecommerce, Events, Hosting, irishblogs, Marketing, monetisation, Tips

As one of the sponsors of the IIA conference we are able to offer our clients a reduced rate on the tickets. Simply email events@iia.ie quoting “Blacknight rate” for details

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EU Domains – Don’t forget to renew them

By on April 11, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, irishblogs

Just over 12 months ago the European TLD – .eu – was finally launched to the public (landrush) after several months of restricted releases for trademark holders etc., A large number of .eu domains were registered during the month of April 2006, so a large number will, naturally, be due for renewal this month. If [...]

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IIA Guest Blogger

By on April 4, 2007 in Blacknight, irishblogs

I’ve been invited to blog on the Irish Internet Association’s blog over the coming weeks. I’m not 100% sure what I’ll be talking about, but you can expect random meanderings on industry topics!

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