Archive | June, 2007

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BarCamp Belfast

By on June 27, 2007 in BarCampBelfast, Blacknight, Blogging, Events, irishblogs

We’re sponsoring yet another BarCamp – BarCampBelfast, which is being held this Saturday, June 30th 2007 at Queen’s University in Belfast. I’ve been at a couple of the BarCamp events over the last year and if anything they aren’t boring, so it should be a good day. In any case it’s a wonderful excuse to [...]

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Carlow.pl Moves to Blacknight

By on June 17, 2007 in Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, network, News

As a company based in Carlow it’s nice to see sites that serve the local community being hosted by us. One such site is Carlow.pl, which completed its migration from a server in Poland this weekend. Carlow.pl was setup to serve both the Irish and Polish communities in the greater Carlow area and is available [...]

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IE Domains – Personal Names Rules To Change

By on June 16, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, iedr, irishblogs, News, Tips

If you are trading under your own name now is the time to register your IE domain. Why? It is highly likely that the IE Domain Registry will be amending the rules governing “personal” IE domains. What does this mean? Soon any Irish resident will be able to register theirname.ie ie. if your name is [...]

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Network Maintenance Followup

By on June 16, 2007 in Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, network, redundancy

Just to followup on the network maintenance from the other evening. The work went ahead as scheduled and we have not had any reports of issues from clients. We will be announcing the next phase in our network upgrades and maintenance plans in the coming days. To keep abreast of these changes I’d recommend you [...]

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Yet Another Network Upgrade (Possible Downtime Warning)

By on June 12, 2007 in Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, News

We’re doing some more work on our core network this week, as we finally get to put our new Juniper routers live. There shouldn’t be any network downtime, as BGP should allow us simply to route the traffic elsewhere while making the changes, however when there are computers and humans involved you can never be [...]

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Nominet Upgrades Leads To Slight Delays

By on June 11, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, irishblogs, nominet

Nominet has been working on upgrades to their backend systems over the last few weeks. The upgrades were meant to have been finished by this morning, but there have been some delays. This has led to a slight backlog on requests for new registrations, updates and renewals. All requests are being queued.

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Get A Previously Owned IE Domain

By on June 8, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, irishblogs, Tips

If you want to get a “previously owned” IE domain then today is a good day for you. If you check our deleted domain list you will see that it has updated as of midday today (or thereabouts) and now includes the latest IE domain deletions. If you qualify to register the domains you can [...]

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