Archive | July, 2011

2011 Is The Summer of .ME

By on July 28, 2011 in Domains, dotme, Press Releases, Promotions

July 28, 2011 – Carlow, Ireland – Irish registrar Blacknight has declared summer 2011 “The Summer of .me.” Whether your Summer of .me adventure is spent climbing a mountain or cooling off indoors in front of your computer, use your .ME domain to tell the world what you’ve been doing.  In celebration of The Summer [...]

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Blacknight Sponsoring Best Use Of Social Media Award

By on July 22, 2011 in Blacknight, Events, Marketing, Press Releases

We’ve been involved with the Irish Internet Association and their annual awards ceremony, the Net Visionary Awards, for several years. We’ve sponsored it, been nominated, been shortlisted and even won a few awards over the past few years. This year we’re sponsoring a category that we feel particularly strongly about – “Best Use of Social [...]

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Don’t Be A Mug – Getting Business Online

By on July 12, 2011 in business, Hosting

As people who read this blog on a regular basis will know I love coffee and I love nice mugs, so it’s not surprising that we’d get a few “Getting Business Online” mugs done. I wanted to give members of our team who had worked on launching the initiative a “little something” and one of [...]

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Linux Geek Required – Apply Within!

By on July 6, 2011 in Careers, Hosting

Do you speak fluent “geek”? Are you happy working from a command line? Do you feel comfortable with Debian, Redhat, Centos and Ubuntu? Want to work in a challenging environment with a growing company? If you answered “yes” to most of the above questions then maybe you might like to work with us. We currently [...]

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Save Big On Cn.com Domains – Sell Into China

By on July 5, 2011 in Domains, Promotions

If you’re selling into the Chinese market then getting a domain that reflects your target is an obvious choice. Registering a cn.com domain name is the perfect choice and we’re offering a special discounted rate on all .cn.com domain name registrations from now until the end of the year. So from now until the end [...]

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WordPress 3.2 is here

By on July 5, 2011 in Blogging, Hosting, Tips

NOTE: This post applies to Shared Hosting Customers with self installs of WordPress NOT to Application Vault WordPress installs. So a lot of people will be waking up today and seeing that WordPress 3.2 is out.. I can hear you groaning “another upgrade?” Well as always when doing upgrades of software the first thing I’m [...]

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Net Visionary 2011 Nominations Open

By on July 1, 2011 in Events

The Irish Internet Association (IIA) annual awards nominations are now open. Full details here The categories have changed again slightly this year and are now: Social Contribution Best Rookie Best Cloud Service Best Breakthrough Brick to Click Best in Digital Marketing Best Open Data Initiative Best Web Developer Best Web Design Internet Start-up Best Mobile [...]

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