Archive | January, 2010

We Are Hiring – Multilingual Roles Available

By on January 25, 2010 in Blacknight, Careers

We’ve just posted a new job vacancy (or vacancies) here. This time round we’re looking for multilingual customer service / technical support staff. Let’s see how we do with CVs .. Further details and how to apply here NO AGENCIES OF ANY KIND

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Domain Pulse Switzerland – See You There!

By on January 24, 2010 in cctlds, Events, IDN

We’ll be attending the upcoming DomainPulse event in Lucerne, Switzerland. DomainPulse is the most important event for the German speaking domain industry, and is held each year in either Germany, Austria or Switzerland. This year’s agenda includes topics such as IDNs, DNSSEC, legal issues and internet governance. It’s also one of the few domain industry [...]

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Save Money With Our Friday Deals

By on January 22, 2010 in Domains, dotinfo, dotme, dotmobi, eurid, Promotions

Special offers and discounts can be fun! If you subscribe to our newsletter you can get subscriber only discounts that we don’t offer anywhere else! In order to celebrate Friday, which seemed like a stupid enough reason to have a discount,  we’ve put together a couple of special discounts for you. Use the coupon code: [...]

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Let’s Help A Charity And Discount Domains

By on January 19, 2010 in Blacknight, Charity, Domains

The tragedy that struck Haiti a few days ago has shocked the world. So we’ve decided to try and raise some cash for what we consider to be a worthy charity – Médecins Sans Frontières. We’ve setup a donation site which uses the mycharity.ie system, so the funds go to the charity we’ve chosen – [...]

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Bulk Transfer of Hosting365 Inc Domains To Blacknight

By on January 18, 2010 in Domains, icann, News

ICANN announced on Friday evening that we, Blacknight, had been chosen to receive the bulk transfer of all domains on the Hosting 365 Inc ICANN accreditation (IANA ID: 956). This bulk transfer is a result of Hosting365 Inc  losing their ICANN accreditation on January 4th 2010 due to a compliance action taken by ICANN  (PDF) [...]

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Hosted Exchange – More Space – Less Buck

By on January 11, 2010 in Email, Hosting, Promotions, spam filtering

It’s a new year, so we’re rejigging some of our service offerings. We’re also giving a nice discount, but you’ll have to read more about our hosted email service to get it .. And besides, any excuse to use photos of cute kittens is always welcome, isn’t it? So our Hosted Exchange plans have now [...]

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Same Scams – Different Year

By on January 6, 2010 in Domains

While everyone else is settling back into a New Year it’s “nice” to see that the scammers have been hard at work. So what’s on the menu this year? Well there’s Internet Register Ireland. Remember them? There’s also those “lovely” people from Domain Registry of America. They got a nice slap on the wrists in [...]

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Whois Compliance Emails

By on January 6, 2010 in Domains

Several of our clients have received emails from eNom in the last 24 hours about supposed WHOIS compliance issues: From: whoiscompliance@enom.com [mailto:whoiscompliance@enom.com]Sent: 06 January 2010 00:03To: info@xxxxxxxx.comSubject: Whois Day 60 / Freeze Notification Letter – Immediate action required for domain xxxxxxx.com Dear xxxx xxxx, As your registrar of record, eNom, Inc requests your immediate attention [...]

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Phone Service Disruption This Week

By on January 5, 2010 in Blacknight

As most people are probably aware, Europe is currently experiencing some pretty nasty weather. Ireland, where we are based, has been having severe frost, ice and snow since the week before Christmas. Unfortunately the local authorities haven’t been able to treat the roads, so they are becoming more and more unsafe. (I think someone referred [...]

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Some Useless Statistics

By on January 3, 2010 in Marketing

I’m fascinated by statistics. Of course being fascinated by them is one thing, being able to do anything meaningful with them is quite another matter entirely. So here are a few statistics that I thought I’d share. Facebook provides quite a bit of data to publishers of pages, so here’s some of ours. (Bear in [...]

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Waiting On An IE Domain Name?

By on January 3, 2010 in Domains, iedr

Tomorrow morning most people will go back to work if they haven’t done so already. Our offices will resume their normal operating hours and the IE Domain Registry will re-open. Prior to the Christmas break we ran a rather attractive offer on IE domain names. Unfortunately due to the sheer volume of domains and the [...]

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