Archive | March, 2012

Acquiring an Unavailable Domain Name On Your Own.

By on March 30, 2012 in aftermarket, Domains, Tips

Previously, Michele wrote about acquiring domain names through third party domain acquisitions specialists and gave tips on how to smartly and effectively work with them to get a domain. However, there is more than one way to skin a domain name, and if you decide to acquire a name on your own there are several [...]

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Celebrating 10 million .uk domains

Register Or Renew A UK Domain And Maybe Win An IPad

By on March 29, 2012 in Competitions, Domains, nominet

Everyone loves iPads. You’d probably be lying if you said otherwise! So here’s a really nice promotion from our friends at Nominet, the .uk domain name registry. If you register OR renew a .uk domain name between now and 26th April 2012 and you could win an iPad. They’re giving away an iPad each day [...]

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Wanted : Software Engineers / Developers

By on March 28, 2012 in General

We’re hiring again! This time round we’re hiring for a number of software engineer roles in our development team. If you think you fit the part, or you know someone who might be interested then here’s the full job spec: Headquartered in Carlow with offices in Carlow and Dublin, Blacknight is the Irish market leader [...]

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Social Media Awards 2012

Social Media Awards 2012 Nominations Close Friday

By on March 25, 2012 in Events

If your business is using social media then you might want to consider entering it for the 2012 Social Media Awards. Nominations close this Friday You can find out more about last year’s winners (including ourselves) in the whitepaper here. The event takes place in the Mansion House in Dublin on May 17th and if [...]

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World Hosting Days Event in Rust, Germany 2012

World Hosting Days 2012

By on March 21, 2012 in Events

This week we’re attending the WorldHostingDays Event at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany. This is one of the biggest web hosting events in the world. Last year for example there were over 3,500 attendees from all over the world. What’s it all about you may ask. It’s about experts from all over the world in the [...]

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Paddy's Day Opening Hours

St. Patrick’s Weekend opening hours.

By on March 16, 2012 in General

Firstly Happy Paddy’s day in advance in case you’re celebrating it. Here’s what you need to know this St. Patrick’s day weekend. Opening hours: Saturday: As usual sales and support will be available via ticketing system and live chat  from 12:00 – 16:00 GMT Sunday: Support will be available via ticketing system and live chat [...]

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Windows 8 Beta - Blacknight Developer Preview

Windows 8 Beta developer preview

By on March 12, 2012 in Cloud Hosting, Hosting

Microsoft have announced the release of Windows 8 beta recently. We thought that  some of our existing customers might like to get a free peek at it, so we put together a special Windows Server 8 plan for a select few customers (for a limited period of time).  If you are interested in Windows 8 [...]

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Hola ICANN Costa Rica!

ICANN Costa Rica – What Will Be Going On?

By on March 8, 2012 in Domains, Events, icann, newtlds, policy

ICANN 43 is taking place next week in Costa Rica and we’ll be there. Due to miscalculations on my side I ended up getting here last night. I’ll be giving a talk on social media for country code managers later this afternoon as part of the Taller de Aspectos Económicos (Workshop on Economic Aspects) for [...]

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The eggs all wondered

And the winner of the Xbox is …

By on March 7, 2012 in Competitions

Looking at the picture above? Don’t worry the prize was an actual Xbox 360 with a year of Xbox Live Gold Membership I had the pleasure this morning to pick the winner of the Xbox 360. We had over 15,000 entries this time around which is pretty wow! if you ask me. So all you [...]

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Read On

Speak Your Mind On Copyright

By on March 5, 2012 in Legal Issues, policy

We’ve written about copyright, digital rights and our views on the entire thing several times over the past few months. If you missed any of our previous articles on the subject they’re here, here and here. The Irish government has signed into law the SI, which doesn’t really surprise me. It was pretty clear that [...]

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