Archive | February, 2012

Leap Year Special

By on February 29, 2012 in Promotions

Leap years are quite special. Here in Ireland there’s a tradition that it’s the one day (every 4 years) when women can ask men to marry them.. Though actually getting married on this day isn’t considered lucky .. BUT If you haven’t signed up with us for hosting, then today is your lucky day Use [...]

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Altmail Blacknight

Changes to webmail

By on February 22, 2012 in Email

You may have gone to the Blacknight homepage today and clicked the Webmail link at the top of the page and see that it’s taking you to a slightly different subdomain. Normally it takes you to webmail.blacknight.com and now it’s taking you to altmail.blacknight.com. This was intentional as we’re trying to get more people using [...]

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Making the most of IIA membership

Making The Most Of IIA Membership

By on February 22, 2012 in General

The following is a guest post from the Irish Internet Association’s (IIA) CEO Joan Mulvihill. We’ll be speaking to Joan later this week on the Technology.ie podcast as well. I was a member of a gym for years and I used to go around four times a week…low and behold, I got to know the [...]

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Bert announces the winner of the Xbox

Did You Win The Xbox?

By on February 21, 2012 in Competitions, Marketing

When we launched our Xbox 360 giveaway a couple of weeks ago we honestly did not know if people would be interested in it or not..We thought it would be fun, but would you? Well you obviously were, as we’ve seen a lot of interest from people and received over 10 thousand entries!!! Now that [...]

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Bert tries poetry for Valentine's Day

Say It With Flowers .. Or Maybe A Domain?

By on February 10, 2012 in Domains, Events

Next week is Valentine’s Day.. so why settle for boring old flowers that wilt or chocolates that melt (and are full of calories)? Why not go for a proper gift – a nice new personal domain name! Bert likes the idea, and since he’s a big bad dragon (though probably cuter than most) we thought [...]

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Blacknight Leads the Irish Market for the Third Year in a Row

By on February 8, 2012 in Hosting, Marketing, Press Releases

We pushed out this press release yesterday morning, though, as I was on the road all day yesterday, we didn’t get a chance to post about it here. Here it is: Blacknight is Named Irelands Number One Hosting Provider – Blacknight Leads the Irish Market for the Third Year in a Row Blacknight has been [...]

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Win an Xbox

Want To Win An Xbox 360 + Xbox Live Gold Membership?

By on February 6, 2012 in Competitions

We haven’t given away any “shiny objects” in a while, so we thought it was about time that we did. So what’s the deal? Whether you’re an existing “fan” of ours on Facebook or not you can enter a draw to win an Xbox 360 which also comes with 1 year’s Xbox Live Gold membership. [...]

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Security Issues

By on February 2, 2012 in security

Normally we blog about pretty much all news we have – both good news and bad news. This morning, however, we felt it prudent to take a slightly different route and emailed our clients directly before publishing anything anywhere else. As has been covered in the media today we had a security issue which led [...]

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Keep Calm And Read On

Calm Reasoned Dialogue Helps

By on February 1, 2012 in Legal Issues, policy

The last week or so has been “interesting” to say the least. (Last time round it was only a couple of days. …. now it’s stretched to a week) It’s also been incredibly busy, which is why I’m only getting round to posting this now and even now I doubt that anything I post will [...]

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