Archive | April, 2010

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Moving Forward With .XXX Makes Sense

By on April 23, 2010 in icann, policy, xxx

Internet policy and the domain name space is constantly evolving. As a company actively involved in this space we try our best to keep abreast of changes that affect us both in Ireland, the EU and globally. We also like to take an active part in the policy change and development when we can. We [...]

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We’re Off To TRAFFIC Milan (As Long As We Can Get There!)

By on April 21, 2010 in cctlds, Domains, Events, nominet

Next week I’m hoping to be in Milan, Italy, for TRAFFIC ccTLDs. (I’m still not 100% confident that flights will be running .. ) The event, which runs over 3 days, is aimed at domain investors and people interested in finding out more about the ccTLD domain world. While there are only about 20 gTLDs [...]

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Want A Job? Don’t Want Any Group Hugs?

By on April 20, 2010 in Blacknight, Careers

We’re hiring again! If you’d like to work with us and become part of our team details of the current openings are here. The current openings are in customer service / technical support. So what is working for us like? If you expect anyone to tell you that we’re a “flock of eagles flying in [...]

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Volcano Getting You Down? Don’t Blow Your Top!

By on April 18, 2010 in Domains, Promotions

With European airspace being considered too dangerous for commercial flights a lot of people have been having a pretty horrible few days. And it doesn’t look like it’s going to get better tomorrow either (which could wreak havoc on my plans for the next week .. ) So rather than wallowing in depression we decided [...]

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Save Save Save – The Monthly Domain and Hosting Newsletter Is Out Today

By on April 14, 2010 in Domains, Hosting, Promotions

If you want to get the best offers and discounts on hosting and domains you need to subscribe to our super-duper newsletter. (not that we’d ever exaggerate or anything!) Every month we send out our latest discounts, offers and news to thousands of clients worldwide. We also include offers from YOU. Yes – if YOU [...]

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Get A Piece of ME!

By on April 13, 2010 in cctlds, dotme, Marketing, Promotions

Let’s cut to the chase. If you want to get in on the action it’s simple. All 1 year .me domain registrations are reduced to €4.99 (ex-VAT) from now until the end of the May. You don’t need any coupon codes, or brown paper bags stuffed with cash (but if you must insist .. ) [...]

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Netvisionary 2010 Shortlisted

Like What We Do? Give Us A Vote!

By on April 12, 2010 in Events, Marketing

Earlier today we learned that we had been shortlisted for the Irish Internet Association’s Net Visionary Awards. This time round we’re shortlisted under the category: Best Use of Social Media If you’ve got a couple of minutes to spare please give us your vote! It’s also great to see so many of our clients and [...]

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Setting Up Email Hosting on a .tel Domain Name

By on April 11, 2010 in General

Click to Play Shows you how to setup your .tel domain name for email. In the tutorial you’ll learn how to create email hosting for a domain and setup an MX record on the .tel (Telnic) domain control panel

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Verifying your .tel domain in Google Webmaster Tools

By on April 10, 2010 in General

Click to Play Tutorial to show you how to verify your .tel domain in Google’s webmaster tools so that you can get powerful metrics data on your domain’s performance

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And the Winner is …

By on April 9, 2010 in Competitions

Sorry about the delay in announcing a winner in our mug competition. .. We’ve been incredibly busy over the last few weeks and didn’t want to make a snap decision without taking the time to read the entries properly. So after due consideration the entry with the most votes was Kevin‘s Runners up prizes go [...]

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OSS Barcamp

Open Source Software Event in Dublin

By on April 7, 2010 in Events

OSS BarCamp is being held this year at IBM in Dublin on Saturday 17th April 2010. The free event brings together users and developers of Open Source technology products and services to share ideas and experiences. Here at Blacknight we use Open Source extensively. If you’re reading this on our blog, then you’re accessing a [...]

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Setting Up Adsense On a .tel Domain Name

By on April 5, 2010 in General

Click to Play Shows you how to setup Google Adsense on a .tel domain name

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