Valentines Day is a day for sharing and appreciation of each other. At Blacknight we love to give back to our customers, so for this week, anyone who purchases a .me or .co domain gets one of these really cool badges from Spike Badges. The .me extension is perfect for personal and memorable occasions as [...]
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Why choose Blacknight
People often ask us why they should choose us as a hosting company. Hosting is hosting, right ? Wrong. Hosting and domain name services are critical to the availability of your website. If something impacts either of these, your website will not be available for people to visit. With business relying more and more on [...]
Happy New Year! Here’s To 2013
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? [...]
Halloween Samhain Operating Hours
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 [...]
Press Release: Blacknight Sets Benchmark for Irish Hosting
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 [...]
IDN Domains Names Are Go!
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 [...]
Company Statement Regarding Tax Situation
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 [...]
KnightBuilder Gets an Update
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 [...]
Blacknight Sponsoring Best Use Of Social Media Award
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 [...]
Woohooo! We Won A Social Media Award!!
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 [...]
Don’t Get Stuck In A Rut
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: [...]
Pix.ie Partner With Blacknight On IPv6 Upgrade
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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