Archive | October, 2008

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Net Visionary Awards Tomorrow Night!

By on October 29, 2008 in Blacknight, Events

Tomorrow evening a lot of people will be heading to the IIA Net Visionary Awards in The Royal Hospital Kilmainham. I’m attending courtesy of Realex Payments, who are one of the event sponsors and our credit card processor I wasn’t at last year’s event, but I really enjoyed the evening other years. While it is [...]

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Magento now supported

By on October 29, 2008 in Hosting, php, Programming

We’ve been inundated with queries about magento over the last few months. Today we’ve rolled out some php5 upgrades to all linux shared hosting machines so we can now support Magento. Please note that this only applies to our minimus, medius and maximus (linux) plans. Also this upgrade now supports imap and imaps so you [...]

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Enom Phishing Warning

By on October 29, 2008 in Domains, Email, security

If you have registered a .com/net/org/info/biz or mobi domain name through us (or anyone else for that matter) you will normally get an email once a year asking you to verify your whois details. This is normal. If you need to update the details you can do so via your control panel. At no time [...]

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SEO Competition Fun And Games

By on October 28, 2008 in Blacknight, Competitions, Hosting, Seo

SEO (search engine optimisation) competitions, where the entrants have to get their site to rank for a random keyphrase, are a bit of fun. They also allow people to show off their SEO skills. Damien Mulley posted earlier today about an SEO competition he’s running, but as he hadn’t mentioned any prizes I thought we [...]

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Countdown to ICANN Cairo

By on October 28, 2008 in Domains, Events, icann

The next public ICANN meeting kicks off in Cairo on November 2nd. So what’s on the agenda this time round? You can expect all the old classics to be on the agenda at some point, but the “star” this time round is going to be the much vaunted “new gTLDs”. In case you missed out [...]

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IDNs Coming To A Domain Near You?

By on October 24, 2008 in Domains, eurid, icann, iedr, nominet

There are several “hot” topics in the domain world at the moment. The introduction of new gTLDs, which I have touched on, is one, while the introduction of IDN (internationalised domain names) is another. For most of this site’s readers IDN isn’t that important. Most of our clients, with some exceptions, are English speakers. Of [...]

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Blacknight Firefox Addon Now on Mozilla

By on October 23, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, Marketing, Tips

Remember the Firefox addon that the cool guys in Weeno Media released?They’ve added the most recent release to the Firefox addon site Nice!

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Give Your Online Advertising A Boost

By on October 20, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, Marketing, News

Everyone loves getting stuff for free, so I’m always happy when I can offer our clients little “extras”. We’re now offering clients free online advertising credit via Google Adwords. In order to avail of the offer you need two things: An annual hosting plan (Minimus / Medius / Maximus) A Google Adwords account that is [...]

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DomainFest Global 2009 Keynote With Steve Wozniak

By on October 18, 2008 in Domains, Events

I’ve attended DomainFest Global in downtown Hollywood for the last two years in a row. Last year we also sponsored the event. As it’s usually held at the end of January, which is just before my birthday, I tend to use it as an excuse for a combined business trip plus short break. The 2009 [...]

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Pre-Barcamp Cork Food

By on October 17, 2008 in Events

Pat Phelan and Alexia Golez are organising a pre-BarCamp Cork dinner on Friday 31st October in Bangkok93/Taste of Thailand on Bridge St. You can find out more and signup via Pat’s blog (places ARE limited) If you are thinking of heading to BarCamp Cork, or are still undecided Sabrina has done a roundup of events [...]

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IIA Net Visionary Awards 2008 Vote Now!

By on October 16, 2008 in Blacknight, Events

If you haven’t voted yet head over to the Net Visionary website now to do so Voting closes tomorrow. While I’d obviously prefer if everyone voted for me I’d be happy if everyone actually took the time to vote for whoever they wanted ie. participated

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Get Ready For .tel

By on October 15, 2008 in Domains, dottel, News, Programming

Telnic, the people who are running the .tel name space, have just announced the launch of their developer area. The .tel domain, which I mentioned a while back, is going to bring some radical changes to the way business and individuals interact (if it takes off). If you want to get an idea of what [...]

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