Archive | January, 2009

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Hosted Exchange Email Now Available

By on January 29, 2009 in Email, Hosting, Marketing, News, redundancy, spam filtering

Today we are happy to announce our new Hosted Exchange range of services. Our technical team have been working on putting together a really nice Hosted Exchange Product that will fit the needs of business users. Why worry about patching and maintaining an office mail server, when you can let our team worry about it [...]

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Helpdesk Downtime Tonight

By on January 26, 2009 in Maintenance

Our helpdesk is being upgraded tonight, so it will NOT be available for about 2 hours from 7pm to 9pm tonight. Further details here

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Dotmobi Registry To Give Away One and Two Letter Domains

By on January 26, 2009 in Domains, dotmobi

The shorter a domain name is the better. When that domain name is being used for mobile content ie. for stuff you’re accessing from your mobile phone or other handheld device, the shorter URL will always win out. I mentioned that dotMobi were planning on releasing one and two character domains some time ago, but [...]

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Grab an IE Domain For A Tenner!

By on January 23, 2009 in Blacknight, Domains, iedr, Promotions

We ran a one day promo on IE domains a couple of weeks ago which proved quite popular, but a lot of people seemed to have missed out for one reason or another… So we decided we’d do it once more today… Ground rules are very similar to the last time. The promotion is valid [...]

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Irish Blog Awards Nominations Published

By on January 20, 2009 in Blogging, Events

The very very very long list of blogs nominated for this year’s Irish Blog Awards, organised by Mulley Communications, has been published. It’s interesting to see how many different blogs there are out there this year and it will be interesting to see which ones progress to be shortlisted. We’re nominated in the Business Blog [...]

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IIA NetVisionary Awards 2009

By on January 19, 2009 in Events

The Irish Internet Association’s annual awards are being held in May this year, instead of their usual October / November timeslot. They’re being held to coincide with the annual conference. More details on their site

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Want A Job?

By on January 18, 2009 in Careers

I’ll keep this short and to the point We’re hiring again. Details here

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More Youtube Experiments

By on January 18, 2009 in Blacknight

Image via CrunchBase We got mixed feedback from the first Youtube video I posted recently, so today I decided to play around some more. One of the problems people had with the first video was the audio quality, so this time round I opted to use an external microphone (Shure SM58 hooked up to a [...]

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Playing With Twitter

By on January 17, 2009 in Marketing

We’ve been using Twitter to push out status updates etc., for the last few months. However it’s only very recently that we’ve actually begun using our Twitter account to really interact with people. Here’s a snapshot of our follower numbers over the last three months via TwitterCounter:As you can see the numbers started climbing relatively [...]

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Surprises Are Fun!

By on January 17, 2009 in Blacknight, News

Back in December we got an email “out of the blue” to let us know that we’d been nominated for the DomainInformer Readers’ Choice Awards. I posted about it at the time and told a few people, but I honestly didn’t expect us get anywhere with it. Don’t get me wrong. I have plenty of [...]

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Online Marketing Secrets Revealed (Sorta!)

By on January 15, 2009 in Marketing

Damien Mulley, who recently launched his own company, Mulley Communications, is pretty well known within the Irish online “scene”. Love him or hate him, you have to admit that he knows a lot about generating interest in a topic. This

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Comreg Publish IEDR Report

By on January 14, 2009 in iedr, policy

Comreg, the Irish Communications Regulator, has published their report on the consultation on the IEDR / IE namespace. You can download the various documents including the submissions from their site. For convenience here is their press release: The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) has today published itsResponse to Consultation on a new framework for the [...]

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