Archive | July, 2008

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Pix.ie – Not Just Another Photosharing Site

By on July 29, 2008 in Marketing, Tips

Irish technology blogger Damien Mulley has organised an interesting initiative called the Tuesday Push. The idea being to put the spotlight on cool startups and services in a co-ordinated fashion. This week’s “target” is photo sharing site Pix.ie which just happens to be a client of ours. So what do they do exactly? In their [...]

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Movable Type – Which License For Me?

By on July 28, 2008 in Blogging, Tips

Up until a few short months ago Movable Type, which is my preferred blogging platform, was not open source. While there was a free personal license if you made commercial use of the software you were honour bound to get a commercial license of some kind. Since then MovableType has launched an open source project, [...]

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Dotmobi Transfers Now Available

By on July 28, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, dotmobi

We’re happy to announce that we’ve finally enabled dotmobi (.mobi) transfers. If you have a .mobi domain registered elsewhere you can transfer it to us for the low cost of € 10 (ex-vat). Similar to .com and many other domain extensions, .mobi uses the EPP system, so you will need to ensure that you have [...]

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Keep Up To Date Via Twitter

By on July 28, 2008 in Blacknight, irishblogs, Marketing, News, Tips

If you’re using Twitter you can now follow our updates from both this blog and our technical status one by simply following the blacknight user on Twitter. Of course we’re still offering email updates and RSS feeds, so if you aren’t using Twitter you don’t need to worry about it. EDIT: updated twitter a/c to [...]

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Checking and Verifying Your Domain Details

By on July 27, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, icann

Quite a few of our clients will have received emails over the last couple of days about their domains’ contact details. The text of the email is similar to this: Dear Domain Holder, This message is a reminder to help you keep the contact data associated with your domain registration up-to-date. As of October 31, [...]

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Sixy – Directory of ipv6 Enabled Sites

By on July 26, 2008 in Ipv6, Seo, Tips

If your site is accessible over ipv6 or you simply want to find other ipv6 enabled sites then a new web directory called Sixy might be of interest. Unlike a lot of more traditional directories Sixy uses tags to categorise sites and as a site owner you can specify which ones you’d like associated with [...]

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Watch Your Mouth!

By on July 25, 2008 in policy

TJ McIntyre posted earlier this week about a courtcase in Dublin involving abusive activity on Bebo. TJ goes into some detail about the case and how the court was able to apply pre-existing legislation to a new medium. He also goes onto add a word of warning which many legislators should heed: But any extension [...]

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Emergency Maintenance Alert – Coffee Machine Downtime!

By on July 22, 2008 in Blacknight, irishblogs

Image via Wikipedia Our poor coffee machine! It’s been completely overworked and abused since we first got it and we now have to schedule some downtime. Naturally we’ll be conducting the much needed maintenance outside office hours, as we wouldn’t want a lack of caffeine to have a negative impact on our staff’s performance. We [...]

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ICANN Approves New .info Policy

By on July 22, 2008 in afilias, Blacknight, Domains, icann, irishblogs

Image via Wikipedia During the ICANN meeting in Paris last month Afilias, the company that manages the .info registry, put forward a proposal to change some of the .info policies. The idea behind the new policy (PDF) is to help stem online fraud and cybercrime of various kinds, however the policy document itself is very [...]

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Blacknight IPv6 – ICANN Folllwup

By on July 18, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, icann, Ipv6, network, News

Image via Wikipedia As I mentioned previously, I was asked to give a presentation on IPv6, or more specifically, our experience with deploying IPv6, at the recent ICANN meeting in Paris. Leo Vegoda has posted an excellent followup of the session on the ICANN blog, summarising the speakers’ various comments and thoughts. While we may [...]

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Show Us Some Love – Testimonials Wanted

By on July 17, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, Marketing

We’re currently putting what I hope (and even pray!) are the final touches to our new website. One of the things we are very very interested in updating is the testimonials page ie. the place where people tell us how wonderful we are! Seriously. If you like our services and are happy to let others [...]

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Latest iPhone Firmware Includes More Domain Extensions – Snubs DotMobi

By on July 16, 2008 in Domains, Tips

Image by el frijole via Flickr I don’t have an iPhone, in case you were wondering. You probably weren’t, but I felt I had to share this vital piece of information before saying anything else! According to The Unofficial Apple Weblog (via), the latest firmware release for both the iPhone and iPod Touch includes support [...]

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