Archive | August, 2009

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DotInfo Now Live On Blacknight

By on August 27, 2009 in afilias, Blacknight, Domains, dotinfo

I did warn people that we’d have several announcements like this this week, so I’m not going to apologise! Blacknight are now fully accredited with Afilias for .info. In common with the other domain extensions we launched this week, all new registrations will be processed under Blacknight’s ICANN accreditation. We will be enabling transfers in [...]

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CM Launch Delayed

By on August 27, 2009 in cctlds, Domains

The .cm launch was meant to be happening today. It’s not and instead I’m writing to say that it’s been delayed. When will it launch? We honestly don’t know. COCCA, who run the backend registry services for .cm, have serious concerns about the technical stability of the .cm (Cameroon) nameservers, which is why they delayed [...]

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Dotmobi Now Live

By on August 26, 2009 in Domains, dotmobi, icann, News

Yesterday I talked about .me, so today it’s .mobi. We’ve talked about dotmobi (.mobi) quite a bit over the last couple of years. Personally I’ve always found the concept of the mobile domain space to be pretty cool and as I moved from using “standard” phones to using “smart” ones I’ve been using the “mobile [...]

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Blacknight Now Accredited For .me

By on August 25, 2009 in cctlds, Domains, dotme

We’re delighted to announce that our .me accreditation is now “live”. We had been offering .me domains via one of our partners up until earlier this afternoon. DotMe (.me) is the country code domain for Montenegro. Of course, if your native language is English, “me” also spells the most important word in the English language [...]

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IE Domain Super Sale – Register or Transfer a .ie Domain For A Fiver!

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

UPDATE: Since people are either misreading this post or misunderstanding the offer details we have decided to simplify it. Please read this article in its entirety, as it answers most of the questions we have been asked. Are you paying silly money for IE domains? Would you like to save a load of cash? We [...]

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IMPORTANT: Share Your Opinion On Domain Expiry

By on August 21, 2009 in Domains, icann

Domains do not “live” forever. If you do not renew them they expire, which means that you can no longer use them and someone else may use them. A working group within ICANN, which is the organisation that “looks after” domains, such as .com, .net and .mobi, is currently looking into whether the current way [...]

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Blacknight Logo Finally Makes It Onto A Car – Karma Enduro 2009

By on August 17, 2009 in Blacknight, Marketing, News

I’ve always wanted to see our logo on the side of a race car. I had been hoping it would be some kind of souped up F1 machine or similar, but I guess we’ll have to settle for one of these: (Image via on Flickr – CC license) Before you ask, it’s a Hindustan Ambassador, [...]

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Web Services Bring Tangible Savings

By on August 15, 2009 in business

As a domain registrar and hosting provider it’s obviously in our best interest that people use the internet. Without the internet we wouldn’t have a business. Maybe I’d go back to one of my former careers … Who knows? It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that people in our industry will post articles trying to show how [...]

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Quick Tour Of AntiSpam.ie

By on August 11, 2009 in Blacknight, business, Email, spam filtering, video

We’ve been proactive about spam for a long time. While all our hosting accounts have some kind of email filtering available with them sometimes it’s simply not enough, so we also offer a premium service – AntiSpam.ie The web based control panel allows you to tweak a lot of settings and gives you a silly [...]

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Which Browsers Are People Using?

By on August 7, 2009 in Blacknight

I am a self-confessed addict to statistics. I won’t lie So when someone mentioned the latest “kill IE6″ campaign I thought it would be interesting to have a look at browser stats for a couple of the sites that we run Our main site (and its various offshoots) Irish ISP Test Irish ISP Test Over [...]

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Phone System Maintenance August 17th

By on August 5, 2009 in Blacknight

We’ll be upgrading our office phone system on August 17th 2009 from around 10am During this period some or all of our phone lines may not be working, however email / livechat etc., will be working. More details here EDIT: Date changed

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Irish Web Awards Nominations Open

By on August 5, 2009 in Events

Nominations for the Realex Payments Irish Web Awards are now open. The categories this year encompass pretty much every imaginable facet of the “web” and include areas such as online publications, technology, sports, podcasting and even Facebook applications. It will be interesting to see who gets nominated this year. Full details including the nomination form [...]

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