Archive | April, 2009

May Bank Holiday Opening Hours

By on April 30, 2009 in Blacknight

This weekend is long weekend in Ireland and several European countries our offices will be closed on Monday 4th May 2009. Technical support will be available via our support desk, as usual. Sales and billing will be closed on Monday All departments will be back at work on Tuesday morning, May 5th 2009.

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Win A Free Online Marketing Campaign

By on April 28, 2009 in Competitions

Before anyone gets crazy ideas – no this is not something we’re offering … 2Bscene are running a competition to give away two thousand euro worth of online marketing (2000 euro!!!). Full details on

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More Weird and Wonderful Domains – Jersey and Guernsey Now Available

By on April 27, 2009 in Domains, News

Image via Wikipedia If like me you grew up in the 1980s you probably have fond memories of John Nettles in Bergerac, which was a BBC TV show about a detective set in Jersey. So how on earth is that relevant to domains or hosting? Jersey and Guernsey make up the Channel Islands and have [...]

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Co.nl Now Available!

By on April 24, 2009 in Domains, News

Several months ago when co.nl was in the planning stages we were asked if we would be interested in offering it to our clientele, and thus became the only accredited registrar for co.nl in Ireland. We are now offering co.nl domain registrations via our main site. Co.nl is an interesting alternative to .nl domains, as [...]

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Blackberry and iPhone Users – dotTel Apps Now Available

By on April 24, 2009 in Domains, dottel, Tips

On days like today I wish I had a Blackberry or an iPhone… Telnic, the guys who run dottel, have made available some new applications for users of Blackberry and iPhone. If you have either device you can grab the software on the Telnic downloads site (mobile accessible) I’d love to know how people get [...]

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Tshirt Competition Now Closed

By on April 22, 2009 in Competitions

We have now closed the tshirt competition. Although the number of entries was low at first they really picked up over the few weeks we ran it. I’ll be posting some of the other entries we received before we announce the winner Thanks to all who took part!

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Share The Knowledge!

By on April 17, 2009 in Blacknight, Hosting, howto, vps

Since we launched our VPS hosting services and revamped our shared hosting offerings we’ve had some very interesting feedback. I’d love to say it was all positive, but that would be a lie. Some people absolutely hate the new control panel. Other people find the control panel a bit confusing at times, but once they [...]

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IIA NetVisionary 2009 Voting Now Open

By on April 15, 2009 in Events

Voting is now open on the 2009 IIA Net Visionary Awards. Categories this year include: Best Business Blogger Best Business Podcaster Best Online Financial Services Best Online Trader Best Use of Social Media e-Government Innovation Internet Entrepreneur Journalist Mobile Internet Innovation Online Tourism Social Contribution Web Designer Excellence Web Developer Excellence Voting is open to [...]

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Easter Weekend Opening Hours and IE Domain Updates

By on April 8, 2009 in Blacknight, News

This weekend is Easter, so it’s a bank holiday in a lot of countries. Our offices will be open as normal on Good Friday, 10th April 2009, however they will be closed on Monday 13th April 2009. Technical support will be available over the weekend and on Monday, however the number of staff manning the [...]

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The Funny Side To .Tel

By on April 5, 2009 in Domains, dottel, humour

I “hangout” on a lot of domain related fora and blogs, so when I saw this I just had to share it with our readers (click to enlarge) Comic strip reproduced with permission from Chef Patrick

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Tshirt Competition – Some of the Entries

By on April 3, 2009 in Competitions

Over the last couple of days we’ve received several excellent entries for our tshirt competition. So here are some of them below: RedMillion provided these three entries (click to enlarge): Jennifer from Laughing Lion provided these:John Braine came up with this one: We’ve also received a couple of entries from people who didn’t include a [...]

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.im Domains Now Live

By on April 2, 2009 in Domains

Image via Wikipedia Over the last few days our development team have been working away on a few cool integrations. One of them has been “in the pipeline” for a really really long time – .im (Isle of Man) While .im may have started life as the ccTLD for the Isle of Man it’s being [...]

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