Archive | August, 2012

Save on .ie domains when you buy hosting

Press Release: Blacknight Invite Customers To Fly Their Irish Flags Proudly with .IE Domains

By on August 30, 2012 in Domains, Hosting, iedr, Press Releases, Promotions

We haven’t done any special offers or discounts on .ie so we’re really excited to unveil this one. The press release below goes into it a bit more, but here are the basics: If you buy an annual hosting plan (Minimus / Medius or Maximus) you can get a .ie domain name registration (or transfer) [...]

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Blacknight to open green data centre in Carlow

Press Release: Blacknight Announce All New Green Data Centre Irish registrar to open on-site facility to manage data needs

By on August 27, 2012 in Hosting, Press Releases

We’ve been keeping this project “hush hush” (well not so much “secret” just not something we’ve been talking about in public). So we’re finally ready to “go public” on it. The release below is being sent out to a variety of media outlets and we’ll also be providing more information on the entire thing over [...]

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An Introduction To Responsive Webdesign

An Introduction to Responsive Web Design

By on August 27, 2012 in Design, Seo, Tips

One code to rule them all, and on the web bind them… Web Design used to be simple. Well, simpler. Designers would design to the most popular desktop screen-size, create a single layout that works for pretty much everyone. This was typically a 960px wide Photoshop document which allowed you to easily divide your design [...]

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Don't forget to renew your hosting / domain

Don’t Lose Your Domain (Or Your Hosting)

By on August 27, 2012 in Domains, Hosting, Tips

Domain registration and hosting are not expensive. Signing up for hosting and domain registration isn’t complicated. Choose your hosting provider / domain registrar. Find an available domain name, choose an appropriate hosting plan, pay and off you go. The entire process is fast and automated (unless you chose a domain name that requires manual intervention). [...]

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Get Locked With Blacknight

Get locked with Blacknight this weekend.

By on August 24, 2012 in Domains

It’s almost the weekend and we’re just wondering if you’re ready to get locked? Protect your personal details by locking them up behind our Whois Privacy Service. Silly attention grabbing titles aside one of the legal requirements when registering your domain is that you provide accurate address details. For a lot of people this means [...]

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Hands up if

Everything you wanted to know about mobile but were too afraid to ask

By on August 23, 2012 in Hosting, mobile, Tips

Hands up if you know someone with a mobile phone Hands up if you know someone who uses the internet on their mobile Hands up if you use the internet on your mobile Hands up if you have a website If you’re reading this post you’ve probably thought about putting your hand up at least [...]

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Excited about Plesk Panel 11

Introducing Parallels Plesk Panel 11 on CentOS 6.3 with Blacknight

By on August 21, 2012 in Cloud Hosting, Hosting

(Maybe you’re not quite as happy the the guy in the photo but Parallels Plesk Panel still brings with it some cool new features) We’re happy to announce that we’re now able to offer Parallels Plesk Panel 11 on CentOS 6.3 Cloud machines. Parallels Plesk Panel 11 brings with it a host of new features [...]

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All Grown Up? Why Not Mark Your Territory Online With .Me?

By on August 15, 2012 in Domains, dotme, Marketing, Promotions

Today thousands of young people throughout Ireland will be getting their Leaving Certificate results. (We’re a 100% Irish owned company, so we kind of noticed the media coverage!) The exam names may change from country to country, but every year thousands of young people around the world move from the relative safety of secondary school [...]

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Happ Katie, Happy Blacknight

Happy Friday, Happy Katie, Happy Ireland, Happy Blacknight

By on August 10, 2012 in .co, Competitions, Events, humour, Social Media

Well it’s Friday so I think that immediately puts most people in a good mood. Couple that with the amazing win by Katie Taylor yesterday and you can’t help but feel proud to be Irish. So we’ve gone and done things the Blacknight way and want to say a huge congratulations to her and let’s [...]

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Press Release : Blacknight Invite Customers to Fall In Love With Free .co and .me domains.

By on August 3, 2012 in .co, Domains, dotme, Marketing, Press Releases, Promotions

In the run up to the long weekend here in Ireland we put out a press release this morning about our latest discount offer on both .co and .me domain names. Oddly enough we were chatting with .co’s Crystal Peterson for the technology.ie podcast last night (the show should be out later today!), so it’s [...]

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We Are Not Running An Olympics Special

By on August 1, 2012 in .co, Domains, dotme, Hosting, Marketing, Promotions

We could have come up with an Olympics’ themed special offer and launched it to coincide with the Olympic Games being held in London (best of luck to everyone by the way!). But just about every company out there seems to have some kind of Olympics themed special .. and besides, we aren’t a sponsor [...]

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