Archive | May, 2008

IPv6 Getting More Press Coverage

By on May 28, 2008 in Hosting, Ipv6, irishblogs

It’s interesting to see that the media has been giving some more coverage to IPv6 over the last couple of days. I was interviewed by ENN yesterday afternoon for a piece they put out in the evening: EC urges speedy adoption of IPv6 Basically the EU is beginning to take an interest so there may, [...]

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Shiny Objects Rock

By on May 26, 2008 in Blacknight, Marketing

Over the last year or so we’ve been doing a bit of advertising in DotNet Magazine in the UK (and US). Last week two of the Future Publishing advertising staff came round to visit our offices here in Carlow bearing gifts. They presented me with a very tasty LaCie Ora Ito designed Golden Disk with [...]

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Dotie Drop Day – Get Them While They’re Fresh

By on May 23, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, iedr, irishblogs, Tips

At 12 today the IE Domain Registry will do it’s latest domain deletion run. If you’re on the lookout for a “tasty” IE domain then check the deleted list anytime after 12. You never know what you might find! What’s the catch? There is no catch. Do dropped IE domains cost more? No. They cost [...]

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EU Domain Orders / Updates Unavailable This Saturday

By on May 21, 2008 in Domains, eurid

Due to maintenance being conducted by Eurid, the organisation that manages dotEU, we will be unable to process new registrations or updates to EU domains this Saturday, May 24th. Eurid are expanding their infrastructure and migrating servers etc., to a new data centre. As a result of this they’ve decided to take the registry backend [...]

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It’s Scam Time (again!)

By on May 21, 2008 in Domains, ecommerce, Email, irishblogs, security, Tips

Every time I write one of these “heads up” posts I silently hope and pray that it will be the last. Of course it never is. At present there are two scams doing the rounds. Our “friends” in Domain Registry of America are still sending out letters to thousands of domain holders. As I’ve said [...]

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Paypal Issues

By on May 20, 2008 in Blacknight, ecommerce, Maintenance

We’ve been encountering some issues with Paypal integration with billing.blacknight.ie, so we have temporarily disabled Paypal payments. This DOES NOT affect blacknightVPS.com We hope to have this resolved later today, but it may take longer UPDATE: This issue has been resolved

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DotAsia Auctions Controversy

By on May 20, 2008 in Domains, dotasia, dottel, eurid

Every time a new TLD launches the registry operators have to come up with ways of distributing “premium” names. Premium names are the “super” domains that are usually dictionary words or close to them. These domains are easy to remember and easy to get to. The most heavily demanded ones are usually related to the [...]

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IE Domain Prices Slashed Again

By on May 13, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, iedr, irishblogs, Marketing, News

As of a few minutes ago we have dropped the price of IE domains across the board. No special links or coupons required. ALL IE domains are now 21 euro ex-vat for both new registrations and renewals. We’ve also got a list of the latest dropped IE domains, so you can grab a previously owned [...]

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New VPS Website and it’s all Web 2.0!!

By on May 13, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, News, vps

Well it isn’t quite Web 2.0. But it’s now new and improved and shiny. And before I get any complaints, we know Safari doesn’t look perfect yet . We’ve removed .net and Linux VPS plans, you now have a simplified version of the site that has VPS plans that are OS agnostic. When you click [...]

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VPS now with more IPs!

By on May 12, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, vps

Ok so the one question we’ve been asked over and over again was: “How many IPs can I have with my VPS?” When we launched initially we said 1 IP address. Then we gave a second free and now we’re going to give you up to 10 IPs but the downside is there’ll be a [...]

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IE Zone Reloads More Frequent

By on May 9, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, iedr, irishblogs, News, Tips

I’m delighted to announce that the IE zone rebuilds are now more frequent. The new zone rebuild times are: 10:00, 12:00, 17:00 and 22:00 AND it is set to rebuild 7 days a week, 365 days a year! This is a major improvement for IE domain holders, as now updates, changes and new registrations will [...]

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IIA Congress 2008

By on May 9, 2008 in Blacknight, Events, irishblogs, Marketing

As we mentioned previously, we are one of the sponsors of the Irish Internet Association’s Congress, which takes place this year in Dublin’s Croke Park. Full details of the event may be found here If you would like to avail of a 20% discount on booking simply use the coupon code: Congress2008 As we’re sponsors [...]

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