Archive | October, 2012

Happy Halloween!

By on October 31, 2012 in General

Happy Halloween to everyone! We’ve been having a lot of rather silly fun in the office today – our staff ran a “bake off”, while one of our sales team adorned the office in Halloween decorations..  

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Not sure what to do about your Ireland.com email?

An Alternative To Ireland.com Email?

By on October 29, 2012 in .co, business, Domains, dotme, Email, Hosting

Ireland.com will be shutting down their email service in a few days time. If you have an @ireland.com email address you will need to find an alternative solution. So what are your options? Well you could simply switch to another free email service. There’s plenty of them out there to choose from, but if you [...]

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Halloween Samhain Operating Hours

By on October 26, 2012 in Blacknight

This weekend is a long weekend in Ireland. Why? Because it’s Halloween (or Samhain) Our offices will be open on Monday, but we’re giving our staff a slightly shorter working day: 1200 – 1600 Irish time (same timezone as London, an hour behind Paris .. ) If you have a dedicated server or colo our [...]

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A Not So Subliminal Message – Register .me Domains!!

By on October 26, 2012 in Domains, dotme, humour

Not sure if this could take off as a meme, but it won’t be for lack of trying! Go here – act now – you know you want to!!   And congratulations to the entire .me team for their continued success – they’ve just announced they’ve broken 650k domain names registered and are the fastest [...]

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Like .it?

By on October 25, 2012 in Domains, it, Marketing, Promotions

I sometimes worry a bit about our designer. He’s a nice guy, but he’s a little odd at the best of times. Today, for example, I asked him for a simple graphic to promote our latest special offer. Now what on earth the image above has to do with .it domain names is beyond me, [...]

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Press Release: Michele Neylon of Blacknight Elected Secretary of ICANN Registrar Stakeholder Group

By on October 24, 2012 in Domains, icann, policy

Most of the press releases we put out are about general company news or events and things that we are participating in. However from time to time there is a little bit of news that is a bit more personal. Today is one of those days. I’m delighted to have been elected as Secretary to [...]

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Blacknight attending ICANN 45 in Toronto

ICANN Toronto Quick Preview

By on October 11, 2012 in Domains, Events, icann, policy

We’ll be attending the ICANN meeting in Toronto next week. It’s the 3rd ICANN public meeting this year and as always the schedule is very busy. Choosing which sessions to attend is always a challenge at ICANN public meetings. I’ll be representing Blacknight as usual. We are actively involved in the Registrar Stakeholder Group, which [...]

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Press Release : Blacknight Sponsor the 2012 Irish Web Awards

By on October 8, 2012 in Events, Marketing, Press Releases

We’re strong believers in industry awards that are inclusive so we’re delighted to be involved with this year’s Irish Web Awards Press release below Blacknight Sponsor the 2012 Irish Web Awards October 8, 2012 – Carlow, Ireland – Leading domain and hosting company Blacknight have announced sponsorship of the 2012 Irish Web Awards. Blacknight, an [...]

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Not Listed

Unlisted but the Irish Web Awards Short Lists are out

By on October 5, 2012 in Events

You can’t win them all and you really can’t win them if you’re not short listed… Yes,  the Irish Web Awards short list is out. This year, as always, there’s a lot of talent on display and a lot of websites we’ve never even heard of. So it’s great when an awards ceremony comes along [...]

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Turn €25 Into €100 Google Adwords Credit

By on October 3, 2012 in Hosting, Marketing, Promotions

We’ve been partnering with Google to offer our customers Google Adwords credit for the last couple of years. They’ve recently changed the offer slightly so here’s a quick overview of what you can get now. First off it’s much simpler. We used to have different credit values based on which hosting plan you got. Now [...]

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free .co domains with Blacknight

Press Release: Blacknight Announce Free .CO Domains for Getting Business Online

By on October 1, 2012 in .co, Domains, Marketing, Press Releases

I love it when a plan comes together! Over the past few weeks (and months) our team has been working on making some changes and enhancements to the Getting Business Online in order to improve the service for everyone. Some of the changes are subtle, yet important, while others are pretty big. Today we are [...]

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