Archive | March, 2011

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Want A Job?

By on March 31, 2011 in Blacknight, Careers

We’re hiring again! At the moment we have vacancies in both our customer service / technical support team and our sales team. More details here and here Want to know what it’s like working for us? Check out some of the photos on our Facebook page or ask our current staff (most of them are [...]

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Remember To Take Care Of Your Domains

By on March 29, 2011 in Blacknight, business, Domains, Press Releases

This is a press release that we put out this afternoonCarlow, March 29 2011 Carlow based domain registrar Blacknight Solutions would like to remind you to care for your domain names. Many businesses do not give their domain names (and related services) enough importance and attention is only paid to the domain when a serious [...]

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Cork Lifelong Learning Festival – Learn To Use Twitter

By on March 28, 2011 in Events, Tips

We are delighted to announce that we are sponsoring this year’s Lifelong Learning Festival in my native Cork. The Cork Lifelong Learning Festival is now in its eighth year and has been getting bigger and bigger every year. The event is also twinned with Belfast’s Feile An Phobail So what’s our involvement? Well we’re officially [...]

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Governments, New TLDs, WHOIS, XXX, Clinton and Porn Stars

By on March 10, 2011 in icann

I’ll be heading off to San Francisco tomorrow morning to attend ICANN 40. Unless you’re an internet policy “geek” it’s pretty hard to get people excited about an ICANN meeting. This time round, however, it looks like it could be pretty exciting and might even turn into a bit of a media circus. Former US [...]

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Some Silly Email Marketing Stats

By on March 10, 2011 in Marketing

We sent out a newsletter via email earlier today (well it was yesterday really, but since I haven’t been to bed yet .. ) One of the things about marketing is that you need to measure as much as you can. I’d love to say “measure everything”, but the reality is that you simply can’t. [...]

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Info Registry Accepting Proposals For 1 and 2 Character Names

By on March 7, 2011 in dotinfo

Afilias, who run the .info registry, have announced that they are now accepting proposals for the allocation of 1 and 2 character .info domain names. It’s not an auction or any other kind of sale. You have to show the registry that your planned use of the domain name(s) will “enhance the .info brand”. Of [...]

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