Archive | August, 2010

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Social Media and A Hosting Provider / Domain Registrar

By on August 29, 2010 in business, Competitions, Email, Feedback, Hosting, Marketing, video

When you don’t have a massive marketing budget you need to be careful how you spend what you have and try to find alternate methods to promote your business. Promoting your business shouldn’t be just about the sale. Of course you need to make sales, but there are better ways to interact with people than [...]

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TRAFFIC Dublin

By on August 24, 2010 in cctlds, Domains, Events

I’m at TRAFFIC Dublin for the next couple of days. It’s nice to not have to get a plane to attend a domain industry event! The schedule for the two days is interesting but, in common with most industry events, the real work and interest is in what goes on in the corridors. Dublin’s Shelbourne [...]

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Ubuntu

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Now Available On VPS

By on August 21, 2010 in Hosting, vps

We are now offering Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on our Linux VPS servers. Ubuntu 10.04 is an LTS (long term support) release, which means that there will be security updates made available for a longer period of time than you would get with a non-LTS version. You can read more about how Ubuntu handles release [...]

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5 new domain extensions

Adding More Horses To Our Stable – Or How To Abuse Metaphors Badly When Talking Domains

By on August 18, 2010 in afilias, cctlds, Domains

We are always working on adding new products and services to our portfolio, so I am delighted to announce the addition of 5 new domain name extensions. We are now offering domain registrations in Antigua (.ag), Honduras (.hn), Saint Lucia (.lc), Mongolia (.mn) and Saint Vincent and Grenadines. All of the domain extensions are available [...]

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Nominations Open For Irish Web Awards

By on August 16, 2010 in Events

Got a website? Think it’s cool? Want fame and glory? Then maybe the Irish Web Awards sponsored by Realex Payments are for you. They’ve just opened the nominations this morning and it won’t cost you anything but a couple of minutes of your time to nominate a site. Just don’t spam them! There’s plenty of [...]

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TRAFFIC Dublin August 2010

TRAFFIC Is Coming To Dublin – Want To Win A Ticket?

By on August 11, 2010 in aftermarket, Competitions, Domains, Events

The TRAFFIC conference is being held in central Dublin later this month (August 24th – 25th) They’ve chosen the Shelbourne, which is possibly the most centrally located hotel in Ireland’s capital! TRAFFIC is one of the top events in the world for the domain industry and brings together domain name industry experts from the four [...]

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What’s Coming In The Hosting Upgrade?

By on August 10, 2010 in Blacknight, Hosting, Maintenance

If you are an existing Blacknight client you may be aware of the pending upgrade that will be carried out early next week (see our status site for more details). In simple terms, there is a major hosting upgrade going in next Monday morning (hopefully before most people are in their offices). A lot of [...]

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Want A Domain? Why Not Try .Gl?

By on August 9, 2010 in cctlds, Domains

One of the things we’re working on all the time is adding more services. So when the opportunity presented itself to offer a “new” domain extension to our clients we jumped at it! We are now offering .gl domain name registration What is .gl? .gl is the country code domain extension for Greenland. Are there [...]

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KLCK Bloggers’ Network Event in Carlow

By on August 7, 2010 in Blogging, Events

KLCK Bloggers’ Network is aimed at bloggers in the Kildare, Laois, Carlow and Kilkenny region of Ireland. This Monday, August 9th at 7pm they are holding an event in the Talbot Hotel, Carlow. There will be two presentations, the first on Flick for business by Paula Sheridan of Candle Designs and the second on setting [...]

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UK prize draw

Register a co.uk Domain and Win!

By on August 4, 2010 in Domains, nominet

Nominet, the registry operator for co.uk, is running a promotion from now until September 27th 2010. If you register a co.uk domain between now and September 27th you can enter a draw for daily prizes of iTunes vouchers, as well as weekly prizes of iPads. NB: The draw is open to UK residents only – [...]

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