Archive | December, 2012

happy new year 2013

Happy New Year! Here’s To 2013

By on December 31, 2012 in Blacknight

It’s the last few hours of 2012.. 2012 has been a very busy year for both us and our customers. There have been high points and low points, like every year.. So what will 2013 hold for us all? Will you be making crazy New Year’s resolutions that you’ll forget about in a few weeks? [...]

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Getting your feet wet…

By on December 21, 2012 in Competitions

We’ll be announcing two winners today in this post. Conference calls and work seem to be getting the better of us. Day 3′s question: What’s the most popular Linux template on our cloud hosting system ? If you did a bit of a search on our blog you’d have found our post on Which Version [...]

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new TLD draw results

Irish Domain Registrar evaluates which new TLDs will first be available for their customers

By on December 20, 2012 in Domains, icann, newtlds, Press Releases

Earlier this week ICANN held a lottery or draw to help determine the prioritisation of new TLD applications We put out this release on it earlier this afternoon Blacknight Announce Results of New gTLD Applicant Priority Draw Irish Registrar evaluates which new TLDs will first be available for their customers. December 20, 2012- Carlow, Ireland [...]

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Get IE domains with Blacknight

Last Call On IE Domains For 2012

By on December 20, 2012 in Domains, iedr

If you need to get a .ie domain name – be that a new domain name registration, a transfer or a holder update / change the clock is ticking .. The IEDR will be closed from tomorrow afternoon until 2013! So get your orders in today! If you have a pending .ie domain registration request [...]

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The name of the game is…

By on December 20, 2012 in Competitions

…and the winner our our mini competition for Day two is … Maurizio from Milano, Italy He has been informed via email and the mini pack of goodies should be winging its way to him shortly. The question that we asked was “What service allows you to protect your identity as the owner of a [...]

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Christmas 2011 opening hours

Christmas Opening Hours 2012

By on December 19, 2012 in General

While our servers might be working 24/7/365 our staff will be taking some time off over the Christmas holidays. So here are the opening hours for our offices over the Christmas break: Monday 24th December 2012 – 08:00 – 15:00 Tuesday 25th December 2012 – closed Wednesday 26th December 2012 – Sales and Accounts closed, [...]

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Hatching a great idea…

By on December 18, 2012 in Competitions

Yesterday we started the first of our week of competitions – ( The competitions may only be for 5 days ) The question we asked was “Where do we recommend you get great images for your website ” …and the first winner is … Eugene from Galway. They’ve been notified via email. The correct answer [...]

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Blacknight sponsor ParkYa beta launch

By on December 17, 2012 in General

As keen supporters of start-ups, we were delighted to sponsor the recent ParkYa beta launch event in Dublin. ParkYa is an app that will help you find parking close by and to also pay for the parking spot. As everyone knows, finding parking in a city or unknown town is a real pain, so this app [...]

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IEDR Optimise 2012 Awards

By on December 12, 2012 in General

As the hosting providers for paradering.ie, a graduate of the IEDR’s Optimise 2012 initiative, we were delighted to attend the 2012 awards ceremony, hosted by the IEDR and attended by Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte, TD. Unfortunately Padraig O’ Sullivan from paradering.ie couldn’t be there but we will be delighted to forward him his certificate The fund, which [...]

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Christmas discount offers on hosting & domains

Press Release: Blacknight Ring in the Holidays With Happychristmas.me and Big Domain Discounts

By on December 7, 2012 in Press Releases, Promotions

We’re not shy about sharing our news and offers, so our super duper PR person extraordinaire put together a press release for us in record time.. and it’s now winging its way across the interwebs  to spread the news .. What’s it about? Our super duper Christmas discounts of course! Here it is .. Blacknight [...]

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Christmas discount offers on hosting & domains

Happy Christmas Offers

By on December 7, 2012 in .co, Domains, dotme, Hosting, it, Promotions

It’s that time of the year again .. So we’ve revamped and relaunched our super duper Christmas offers site. What’s on offer? This year you can save quite a bit on both hosting and domains – but you have to use the coupon code “xmas12” to get the discounts Domains: .eu €4.99 .co €11.99 .me [...]

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Special offers via the Blacknight control panel

Take Advantage Of Special Offers

By on December 6, 2012 in Promotions, Tips

Existing Blacknight client? Want to take advantage of the Google Adwords deal? Or how about the stock photos one? You can access these and other special offers easily via your control panel. They all “live” under the “special offers” tab: Any questions? Let us know! Related articles Market and Promote Your Online Business (technology.ie) Press [...]

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