I seem to be spending a lot of time talking about awards of late, but it’s that time of the year I guess …. In any case the IIA Net Visionary Awards shortlist has been announced … I’ve been shortlisted under 3 categories: Best business blog (for this one) Internet Entrepreneur Internet Marketer It’s nice [...]
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IPv6 Adoption?
Image via Wikipedia Leo Vegoda posted an interesting article today on CircleID about ipv6 deployment and adoption. While Leo admits that measuring ipv6 isn’t an exact science he was able to identify that the African region (AfriNIC) is announcing more ipv6 space than any of the other regions, including Europe. So what about Ireland? Sixxs [...]
Irish Web Awards Selling Out Fast
Tickets for the inaugural Irish Web Awards are selling out fast, so if you want to attend you should register ASAP. Ken McGuire has done a very nice mashup which I really love:

How To Ask For Help
Whether you are dealing with technical support, customer service or a casual acquaintance, there are some ways to ask for help that are more effective than others. Technical support and customer service people are paid to assist you. However they can only work with the information that they are given. Unless you believe that everyone [...]

How Much Is Your Hosting Worth To You?
As you know, if you’ve been reading our ramblings for a while, we really like our coffee. There’s nothing quite nicer in the morning than a nice fresh coffee and croissant to start your day. While you might be able to make your own coffee, gettting a drinkable capuccino requires skills and equipment that you [...]

Blacknight Shortlisted For Irish Web Awards (Times Two!)
The shortlist for the 1st Irish Web Awards was announced earlier today and I’m absolutely delighted to see that both our main site and Irish ISP Test have made the shortlist! Our main site is shortlisted under the “Best e-commerce” category, while the ISP Test is listed under the “Most Useful” site category. The full [...]
Setting Up Email Filtering With Plesk
Image via Wikipedia If you’re using Plesk on a VPS or dedicated server you may want to configure email filtering. There are two ways to block spam from reaching you on a Plesk server: Spam Assassin DNS Blacklists DNS Blacklists can be very helpful, but bear in mind that you need to check what a [...]
Firefox 3 Hates Self Signed SSL Certs
For some reason the Firefox developers seem to have taken protecting end users to a rather inane level, as the errors displayed for self signed certificates are extremely confusing. See below for an example: Just because a cert is self-signed does not make it insecure! Of course if the site you are connecting to is [...]
Moving Hosting Without Headaches?
Image via Wikipedia A lot of the questions we get asked on a regular basis are about moving your hosting without downtime and without too many headaches. If you leave switching provider until the last minute it will be painful, so please don’t! We’d recommend people to look into changing their hosting provider BEFORE their [...]

Irish Web Awards Nominations Published
Damien has published the list of sites nominated for the 1st Irish Web Awards. There are some really cool and interesting sites on the list and some of the categories are going to be incredibly competitive. Here at Blacknight we have two sites in the running – our main site and Irish ISP Test. So [...]
Sick of your current provider? Move your domains to Blacknight and save!
Image via Wikipedia We always like to offer people incentives to move their hosting and / or domains to us. From now until the end of the month we’re offering yet another super-duper incentive – ALL .com transfers are a mere EUR4.95 (ex-vat)! If you want that in dollars or sterling (for those of you [...]

Check Domains From Firefox
The guys in Weeno Media did up a little Firefox extension / addon a few months ago that allows you to check for domains on our site from within your browser. Of course, as our new order system is completely different the extension stopped working, which was a pity. It was only when it stopped [...]
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