Archive | May, 2012

Woohoo! Blacknight Announce Partnership with .CO

By on May 31, 2012 in cctlds, Domains, Marketing, Press Releases

I love it when a plan comes together Being able to finally announce to the world that we are accredited for .co directly with CoInternet makes me incredibly happy and very satisfied. Why? Because the guys in .co are incredibly picky about who they’ll work with. So it took quite a bit of work to [...]

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New Top Level Domain Application Window Closes .. So Now What?

By on May 31, 2012 in Domains, icann, IDN, newtlds

Last night at around 1 in the morning (Irish time) ICANN closed the “application window” for new TLDs (top level domains). They were meant to have closed it back in April, but due to technical and security issues the entire process was delayed for over a month.. So now what? First off you won’t be [...]

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Don’t Make Us Treat Our Customers Like Criminals!

By on May 29, 2012 in Domains, Hosting, policy

This post is probably a little longer than my normal ones and is probably best classified as a “rant”. You have been warned. Now please read on. Online Crime Is A Serious Issue Crime, fraud, scams etc., they’re all very bad things. They’re also not going to go away anytime soon. As a domain name [...]

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Co.uk Registry Data Quality Update

By on May 28, 2012 in Domains, nominet

If you have registered a UK domain with us, or transferred your existing domain to us, then you might receive an email from us asking you to confirm your contact details. First off this is not a scam! We are working with Nominet, the UK domain registry, to improve the quality of data related to [...]

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Blacknight on Google places

Tweaking And Enhancing Your Google Places Page

By on May 23, 2012 in business, Marketing, Seo, Tips

Getting found online these days is a “must” for any business – large or small. One of the relatively simple things you can do is make sure that your business is listed on Google places. If you’re not already listed you can start the signup process online here. You will need to validate your business [...]

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And the Social Media Awards winner of Blog of a Business goes to …

By on May 18, 2012 in General

You know it’s always nice when you’re ending the week on a high. This weekend we’re going in knowing that we’ve helped get 10,000 businesses online for free in Ireland, we’ve new staff starting, we’re continuing to expand and we’ve gone and won a Sockie not to mention we’ll be launching new products and services [...]

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Press Release: Blacknight Announce Over 10,000 Irish Businesses Are Participating in Getting Business Online

By on May 16, 2012 in business, Press Releases

We put this release out earlier today about the first year of the Getting Business Online project. It’s been an interesting year! So far the story has been picked up in a few media outlets including: DomainIncite: Even when the domains are free, Irish small businesses prefer .com to .ie   Here’s the release: May [...]

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I Love My BRICS

By on May 11, 2012 in General

In a rare occurrance yesterday Michele Neylon, Managing Director of Blacknight,  put on a suit. It wasn’t however for a funeral as one might expect when you’re dealing with Michele and suits. It was hopefully for the birth of something great. It was of course if you’ve been following any of our recent blog posts [...]

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Want A Few SEO Tips?

By on May 11, 2012 in Seo, Tips

As some of you may know we also run a weekly podcast over on technology.ie This week our guest was Paul Savage, who also provided a guest post on this blog previously. He talked to us about search engine optimisation and about some of the things to avoid. If you’d like to learn a little [...]

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Be Happy!

By on May 9, 2012 in cctlds, Domains, Promotions

We haven’t done any “silly” promotions for a while, so we’re making up for lost time this week! From now until the end of June July you’ll be able to get a .be domain name for only €3.99 (registration or transfer) What is .be? Well it’s the country code for Belgium – the country that [...]

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Celebrate Europe Day

By on May 9, 2012 in Domains, eurid, Marketing, Promotions

Today is Europe Day, so we thought we’d do a couple of small things to celebrate. First off we’re going to give away a few .eu key rings – watch our Facebook page for details. Secondly to help businesses that want to explore the EU market we’re offering a nice discount on .eu domain name [...]

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Bert’s Happy As Blacknight Made The Finals Of The Social Media Awards

By on May 4, 2012 in News, Press Releases, Social Media

Bert and the entire Blacknight team are delighted that we’ve made it into the finals for the Social Media Awards. The list of finalists was announced last night and we’re really honoured to have made it this far. Best of luck to everyone! Here’s our press release on the announcement that’s going out this afternoon: [...]

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