Archive | July, 2012

Dot IE Market Share

Press Release: Blacknight Lead the Market on .IE Domains – Growth Even in Difficult Economic Climate

By on July 27, 2012 in cctlds, Domains, iedr, Press Releases

We put out another press release earlier this morning in relation to .ie domain names. Domain sales and growth are always a good thing, but overthinking the reasons can lead to the media getting some rather odd views of how things work .. Here it is below: Blacknight lead the Market on .IE Domains Annual [...]

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2 Years of .co domain names

Happy Birthday .Co!

By on July 20, 2012 in cctlds, Domains

The guys in .co are celebrating 2 years in operation today. When they launched they had no idea how well they might do, but they’ve been incredibly successful in a short period of time. And to underline that they ran a pretty cool marketing campaign around flying pigs Their infographic highlights some of their achievements, [...]

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Meet The Blacknight Twitter Team

Meet the Blacknight Twitter team

By on July 17, 2012 in Social Media

  Hot on the heels of yesterdays announcement http://blog.blacknight.com/press-release-blacknight-sets-benchmark-for-irish-hosting.html we decided to have a bit of fun and well it has been a while since we last did a “meet the team” style post so why not try to inject a bit of humour into things on this Tuesday morning. We’ve been incredibly busy the [...]

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Top 5 Irish hosting providers market share July 2012

Press Release: Blacknight Sets Benchmark for Irish Hosting

By on July 16, 2012 in Blacknight, Domains, Hosting, Infographic, Marketing, Press Releases

We all like hitting milestones, so when I learnt that the most recent Hosterstats report had to say about our recent growth I was delighted. Not only are we continuing to grow, but we’ve become the first Irish hosting provider to break the 100k site hosted mark. Not only that, but we now host more [...]

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Press Release: Blacknight Signs Declaration of Internet Freedom

By on July 11, 2012 in News, policy, Press Releases

I mentioned the Declaration of Internet Freedom over on Technology.ie recently. We signed it as soon as I was made aware of the declaration, but there was a bit of a backlog in the organisers processing signatures. We issued the press release below today on our signing of the declaration and our rationale for doing [...]

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WordPress spreadsheet

Keep your site up to date

By on July 9, 2012 in security, WordPress

No we’re not talking about keeping your site up to date with new content. In this post I’m talking about keeping the software you’re running your site on up to date and it’s not a new topic on the blog for us. I’ll mainly be talking about WordPress (which is at 3.4.1) but it’s the [...]

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Talking About .Cat And More Nacho Amadoz

By on July 7, 2012 in Domains, dotcat, newtlds, Podcasting

The other evening I managed to grab Nacho Amadoz from the .cat domain registry for an interview with Conn and I for technology.ie. Unlike most of our guests Nacho wasn’t planned – it was just a happy accident! Nacho was online chatting with me via Skype so I just grabbed him We talked about what [...]

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Whois Privacy

Sometimes You Want To Wear Shades – Whois Privacy Now Available

By on July 5, 2012 in Domains, News, Press Releases

As dragons go Bert is very sociable. Of course being such a well known social media icon and hosting and domain name figure he’s been getting a lot of attention from all over the place. (Personally we think Squishy‘s just a tad jealous!) So sometimes Bert likes to have a bit of personal time and [...]

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Save big on .cat domain registration

Press Release: Blacknight Announce .CAT Super Summer Kickoff Promotion – The clock is ticking on big domain savings

By on July 4, 2012 in Domains, dotcat, Press Releases, Promotions

July 4th, Carlow, Ireland – Blacknight are starting summer off by letting the .CAT out of the bag. Award winning Irish domain registrar Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com)  is running a super summer promotion on .CAT domains. The promotion runs on a first come, first served basis as the next 300 .cat domain names to be registered via [...]

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Save big on .cat domain registration

Squishy Wants A .Cat In The Big .Cat Promo

By on July 4, 2012 in Domains, dotcat, Promotions

Squishy is one of our favourite cats (it’s just his “stage name”) and he’s as happy as we are to be able to offer a super duper discount promotion on .cat domain names. The promotion is pretty simple. The next 300 .cat domain names registered via us will be available at the discounted price of [...]

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Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards – Nominations Open

By on July 4, 2012 in Events, News, Social Media

The IIA (Irish Internet Association) Net Visionary Awards are in their 14th year and, as has happened in the past, the categories have been updated to reflect the times. This year’s ceremony will take place on September 28 in the National Gallery of Ireland, which is centrally located in Dublin. Nominations are now open and [...]

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Changes are afoot - domain pricing tweaks

Domain Pricing Changes Are Afoot

By on July 3, 2012 in business, Domains

We’ve always been pretty aggressive about our domain pricing strategy. Over the last couple of years we’ve barely touched our pricing on new domain registrations and transfers, but have been running many of them at a deep discount. Most of the domain registries operate in US dollars, while we operate in the Euro zone. So [...]

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