Archive | August, 2008

Nominet – Over 7 Million Names Registered

By on August 30, 2008 in Domains, iedr, News, nominet

Nominet, of which we are members, announced a few days ago that they had passed the 7 million domain mark. While that figure alone is impressive, it’s even more impressive when you consider that they only hit the 6 million mark in 2007! The strong growth in registrations in the UK namespace is interesting to [...]

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Podcamp Ireland – Kilkenny – September 27

By on August 29, 2008 in Events

Want an enjoyable day in an attractive city? Want to learn from your peers? Broaden your horizons? Then why not pop over to Kilkenny for PodCamp Ireland on September 27. The topics and speakers lined up for this year sound like it could be a very enjoyable day.

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Irish Web Awards Nominations Close Tomorrow

By on August 28, 2008 in Events, irishblogs, Tips

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the deadline for nominations in the 1st annual Irish Web Awards. Get nominating now! There are a very wide variety of categories, so you can probably find a couple of sites to nominate without too much effort. What makes the Irish Web Awards different? Well to start with it’s [...]

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More Flash Tutorials Added – Application Vault – DNS

By on August 28, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, Hosting, irishblogs, Tips

We’ve added a couple of more Flash tutorials to the support section of our site. The new tutorials cover using the control panel to manage DNS, change nameservers and use the autoinstaller (Application Vault) to setup applications like WordPress or Movable Type. You can now easily manage your domain’s DNS settings including setting up both [...]

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Upgrade Complete (I hope!)

By on August 26, 2008 in Blacknight, Blogging

We’ve upgraded this blog’s backend and given it a new look (sort of) If anyone notices anything odd please let us know, as we may have missed some silly little detail

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Blog Downtime

By on August 26, 2008 in Blacknight, Blogging

We’re going to be upgrading this blog’s backend this evening, so the site may be unavailable for a period of time. Hopefully (fingers crossed!) everything will be back working again shortly …

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Using Joomla? Check The Version

By on August 23, 2008 in security

Image via Wikipedia There’s a serious security issue affecting older versions of the popular CMS Joomla. If you are using Joomla please take the time to check the software version, as older versions are susceptible to a serious security issue Users on our DirectAdmin servers may opt to use the upgrade system within Installatron, however [...]

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Bulk Domain Orders Are Here!

By on August 22, 2008 in afilias, Blacknight, Domains, dotasia, dotmobi, ecommerce, eurid, icann, iedr, irishblogs, Marketing, nominet, Tips, verisign

One of the things that people really really hated about our old order system was the lack of a bulk order option for domains. Our nice new shiny order system solves this issue once and for all! You can now order up to 100 domains at once via our new bulk order system. We’re also [...]

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Emails From IEDR?

By on August 21, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, Email, iedr, irishblogs

Earlier today our developers were doing some housekeeping on IE domains. What we were doing was updating some of the technical contact details to maintain some level of uniformity. While this change had zero impact on the domains themselves and only affected the WHOIS data, the registry’s system still sent multiple emails to registrants confirming [...]

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Selling While They Wait – On Hold Music Updated

By on August 20, 2008 in Blacknight, irishblogs, Marketing

Like a lot of people I have a todo list. It never seems to get any shorter, but today I managed to remove one item from my todo list – updating our “on hold” recording. Liam Quigley is the voice you can hear while waiting to talk to any of our team: Click here to [...]

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Blacknight Podcasts – Sort Of

By on August 20, 2008 in Blacknight, Blogging, Domains, Hosting, irishblogs, Marketing, Podcasting, Tips

A few weeks ago Krishna De and I spent an afternoon recording a series of short podcasts on hosting, domain registration, seo and related topics for the PodCamp Ireland series. Krishna De has given me permission to use and abuse the hosting tip series, so I will probably make them available from here shortly (I’m [...]

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Feature Update IE domains

By on August 20, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, Hosting, iedr

We announced a while ago that multi year .ie registrations were going to be available soon. Wednesday last week this went live, you can now register an IE domain for upto 10 years. Currently we’re allowing 1-5, and 10 years, we’ll change this in a week or two once things settle down. The second thing [...]

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