Archive | March, 2010

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Domain Renewal Group – Warning – Read The Fine Print!

By on March 30, 2010 in Domains

If you get a letter like the one below from Domain Renewal Group please bin it (click to enlarge):From what we’ve been able to work out Domain Renewal Group (DRG) and Domain Registry of America (DROA) appear to be the same organisation. We’ve mentioned their antics in the past Domain Renewal Group send out thousands [...]

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Getting More Geek Points – IPv6 Chez Blacknight

By on March 28, 2010 in Ipv6, network

We’ve mentioned IPv6 a few times in the past. It’s not exactly a “sexy” or exciting topic. Anyone who tells you otherwise probably needs to get out more! It is, however, a very important topic. IPv4, which has been around for years, provides for IP addresses such as: 192.168.1.1 That’s fine and dandy and most [...]

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Desktop Wallpaper – 2010 Version

By on March 27, 2010 in Blacknight

About 4 years ago Alan from SpoiltChild did up some desktop wallpaper for us. I hadn’t realised that it was that long ago! In any case James did some desktop wallpaper for us a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t mention it here (I posted it to Facebook and Twitter instead!) Since 2006 people’s [...]

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Best of Luck To Irish Blog Awards People

By on March 26, 2010 in Blogging, Events

This weekend sees what has become an annual event taking place in Galway – the Irish Blog Awards. We are overjoyed to see so many of our clients and friends on the list of finalists. We hope everyone has a great evening (or weekend!) and remember to enjoy it. Don’t forget to thank all the [...]

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Get Personal With dotMe

By on March 23, 2010 in Domains, dotme, Promotions

These days it’s all about the “personal brand”, so why not get started on yours now? If you want to get a personal “slice” of the internet “pie”, then .me domains are perfect! Why worry yourself with paperwork and headaches – you can get a .me domain name within minutes! No bureaucracy – no messing [...]

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iPhone Wallpapers

By on March 18, 2010 in Blacknight

Several of us have iPhones in the office, so one of the guys was asking this morning if we could get an iPhone wallpaper.. So now we have these: We’re still playing around with the positioning etc.,, so if you’re an iPhone user please download them and let us know what you think. Grey version [...]

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How To Get A Blacknight Mug

By on March 17, 2010 in Competitions

We’ve spoken about the Blacknight mugs a few times in the past and we’ve had a lot of people asking us about getting their hands on one. So how can we make everyone happy? We can’t. But what we have come up with is a silly idea to give away one of the mugs and [...]

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Andrea Talking About Mobile and WordPress – Wordcamp Ireland 2010

By on March 16, 2010 in General

Click to Play Andrea talking about Mobile web and WordPress Mobile at WordCamp Ireland, Kilkenny March 2010. Please excuse the rather dark bits and the camera shake.

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St Patrick’s Day Domain Special Blowout

By on March 15, 2010 in afilias, cctlds, Domains, dotinfo, dotme, dotmobi, dotorg, dottel, eurid, icann, iedr, Marketing, Promotions, verisign

Blacknight is a 100% Irish owned and run company. It’s something we’re very proud of. We’re also the only Irish ICANN accredited registrar, we’re the biggest Eurid registrar, the biggest Nominet registrar etc.,, (You get the point?) For 51 weeks of the year we don’t “push” our Irishness, or at least not overtly .. However, [...]

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Setting Up Awstats For Your Website On Blacknight

Awstats Now Available On Linux!

By on March 14, 2010 in Hosting, howto, Podcasting, Seo, Tips, video

Image by blacknight via Flickr We’re delighted to finally be able to offer Awstats statistics for all our shared Linux based hosting accounts (it’s also available for Windows). If your site is hosted on any of our shared Linux hosting accounts you can now setup Awstats via your control panel NB: Stats will not be [...]

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Coffee Machine Upgrades and More About Mugs

By on March 12, 2010 in Blacknight, Marketing

Since I’m a bit of a coffee addict (as are a lot of our staff) I decided the time had come to upgrade our office coffee machine. If you recall, we got ourselves quite a nice machine nearly two years ago. Unfortunately that machine, while excellent in its own right, simply could not cope with [...]

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ICANN Board To Decide Fate of .XXX Tomorrow

By on March 11, 2010 in Events, icann

As the ICANN meeting in Nairobi draws to a close several big questions still hang in the air. While many ICANN insiders may be wondering about new TLDs the world’s media is firmly focussed on one topic an one topic only – .xxx. Tomorrow morning the ICANN board will officially decide what will happen with [...]

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