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IDN Domains Names Are Go!

By on October 12, 2011 in Blacknight, Domains, eurid, IDN

Over the past few weeks our technical team have been working on integrating IDN domain names. IDN domains are “internationalised” so with an IDN domain name you can put in the accents like the “fada” in Irish, or the Spanish N (Ñ) directly into the domain name.So, for example, I’ve registered Mícheál.eu, while other members [...]

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Company Statement Regarding Tax Situation

By on September 19, 2011 in Blacknight

Over the last couple of days there has been some talk about our tax affairs in the Irish media.Since this seems be a cause of concern for some of our clients we are issuing the following statement, as well as publishing our current tax clearance certificate. Blacknight has always paid its taxes and this problem [...]

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KnightBuilder Gets an Update

By on September 5, 2011 in Blacknight, ecommerce, Hosting, News

Last week saw us making a pretty major upgrade to KnightBuilder for the Getting Irish Business Online Project. So rather than boring you with major technical details I’ll just dive right into the guts of what has changed. 1: The “about us” page and “News” pages have changed. They are now considered as Extra Pages [...]

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Blacknight Sponsoring Best Use Of Social Media Award

By on July 22, 2011 in Blacknight, Events, Marketing, Press Releases

We’ve been involved with the Irish Internet Association and their annual awards ceremony, the Net Visionary Awards, for several years. We’ve sponsored it, been nominated, been shortlisted and even won a few awards over the past few years. This year we’re sponsoring a category that we feel particularly strongly about – “Best Use of Social [...]

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Woohooo! We Won A Social Media Award!!

By on May 27, 2011 in Blacknight, Events

Last night a couple of us were in Dublin’s Mansion House for the Bord Gais Social Media Awards 2011. The event, which was run by Mulley Communications, was very well organised with live music and a nice drinks reception before the official part of the evening began. As usual the MC was Mr Rick O’Shea [...]

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Don’t Get Stuck In A Rut

By on May 24, 2011 in Blacknight, Hosting, humour, Promotions

To celebrate the visit of President Obama to Ireland we thought we’d run a “wee” offer on hosting and domains No prizes for guessing where we got our inspiration for the graphic from! So if you use the coupon code: obama (all lower case, no spaces) you can avail of the following special discount pricing: [...]

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Pix.ie Partner With Blacknight On IPv6 Upgrade

By on May 18, 2011 in Blacknight, News, Press Releases

May 18 , 2011 – Carlow Ireland – Ireland’s most popular domain name registrar Blacknight have recently partnered with Pix.ie, Ireland’s most popular photo sharing site to complete a major infrastructure upgrade to support the new Internet address space IPv6. Blacknight, leaders in the migration to IPv6 and members of the Irish IPv6 taskforce have [...]

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Social Media Awards Nominations Out

By on May 16, 2011 in Blacknight, Events

We’re nominated for the Social Media Awards this year. You can see the full list of nominees here There’s even a nice little graphic that we can use to proclaim our nomination: If you’re planning on attending the event, then you need to book tickets here. At only €50 each they’re not expensive and past [...]

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Yet Another Job Vacancy – Senior Systems Engineer

By on April 23, 2011 in Blacknight

It’s nice to be able to advertise job vacancies.It’s even nicer when you’re advertising for a completely new role. We’re currently hiring for a senior technical position: Senior Systems Engineer You can read more about the role and apply directly via the link above.

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Want A Job?

By on March 31, 2011 in Blacknight, Careers

We’re hiring again! At the moment we have vacancies in both our customer service / technical support team and our sales team. More details here and here Want to know what it’s like working for us? Check out some of the photos on our Facebook page or ask our current staff (most of them are [...]

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Remember To Take Care Of Your Domains

By on March 29, 2011 in Blacknight, business, Domains, Press Releases

This is a press release that we put out this afternoonCarlow, March 29 2011 Carlow based domain registrar Blacknight Solutions would like to remind you to care for your domain names. Many businesses do not give their domain names (and related services) enough importance and attention is only paid to the domain when a serious [...]

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Meet The Twitter Team!

By on February 3, 2011 in Blacknight

I’d be the first to admit that when we first started using Twitter a couple of years ago it was purely an experiment. It was something I signed up for and something I didn’t really consider of any value. (To read my quite scathing post on it click here) To be perfectly frank I thought [...]

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