Archive | May, 2011

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Woohooo! We Won A Social Media Award!!

By on May 27, 2011 in Blacknight, Events

Last night a couple of us were in Dublin’s Mansion House for the Bord Gais Social Media Awards 2011. The event, which was run by Mulley Communications, was very well organised with live music and a nice drinks reception before the official part of the evening began. As usual the MC was Mr Rick O’Shea [...]

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Don’t Get Stuck In A Rut

By on May 24, 2011 in Blacknight, Hosting, humour, Promotions

To celebrate the visit of President Obama to Ireland we thought we’d run a “wee” offer on hosting and domains No prizes for guessing where we got our inspiration for the graphic from! So if you use the coupon code: obama (all lower case, no spaces) you can avail of the following special discount pricing: [...]

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Blacknight To Offer .XXX Domain Names This Autumn

By on May 20, 2011 in Domains, Press Releases, xxx

Blacknight are strong believers in freedom of choice and this autumn, they will be giving you the freedom to choose to register an .xxx domain name. Having a long history of early adoption and innovation in the domain space, Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com) are to be among the first registrars to offer this new Internet extension (also [...]

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Pix.ie Partner With Blacknight On IPv6 Upgrade

By on May 18, 2011 in Blacknight, News, Press Releases

May 18 , 2011 – Carlow Ireland – Ireland’s most popular domain name registrar Blacknight have recently partnered with Pix.ie, Ireland’s most popular photo sharing site to complete a major infrastructure upgrade to support the new Internet address space IPv6. Blacknight, leaders in the migration to IPv6 and members of the Irish IPv6 taskforce have [...]

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Wake Me Up Before You Co Co!

By on May 18, 2011 in Domains, Promotions

Want to get a great domain?Can’t find one you want?Try a .co!Since its relaunch a year ago the .co domain name has become one of the hottest properties online with thousands of companies of all shapes and sizes opting for a .co web address. So we’re just giving you a gentle reminder that if you [...]

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Social Media Awards Finalists Announced – And We Are On The List!

By on May 17, 2011 in Events, News

Earlier this morning the finalists for the 1st Social Media Awards were announced and I’m thrilled that we are on the list. Not only are we on the list, but we are on the list of finalists in several categories: Facebook Page for A Business Best Business Twitter Account – Marketing & Sales Best Business [...]

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Social Media Awards Nominations Out

By on May 16, 2011 in Blacknight, Events

We’re nominated for the Social Media Awards this year. You can see the full list of nominees here There’s even a nice little graphic that we can use to proclaim our nomination: If you’re planning on attending the event, then you need to book tickets here. At only €50 each they’re not expensive and past [...]

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Getting Business Online – Blacknight Partner With Google, An Post, Enterprise Boards

By on May 10, 2011 in business, Domains, Hosting, Marketing, News

I love it when a project we’ve been working on for months finally “goes live”. Yesterday we were at Google’s Dublin headquarters for the official launch of a very cool initiative. (See my Flickr stream for photos) The launch was a really great event, with representatives from just about every business organisation in Ireland present [...]

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