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Press Release: Blacknight Announce Sponsorship of IIA Annual Conference 2012

By on May 1, 2012 in business, Events, Marketing, Press Releases

Carlow, May 1st 2012 Blacknight announce sponsorship of the Irish Internet Association Annual Conference 2012 “Building BRICS”. The conference, which will be held Thursday May 10, 2012 at Aviva Stadium, promotes a theme of  “Enabling Business Expansion” and will focus on social media, localisation and mobile. The IIA Annual Conference is not just for tech [...]

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Happy New Year 2012 from Blacknight

Happy New Year 2012

By on January 1, 2012 in business, Domains, Events, Hosting, News, Promotions

Happy New Year! 2012 should be an interesting year and hopefully it will be a good year for all of us. So what’s coming up in 2012? Well the VAT rate in Ireland has gone up as of midnight last night, which puts a bit of a downer on the start of a new year.. [...]

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Check The Small Print – EU Business Register (and others)

By on October 17, 2011 in business

Successful scams aren’t complicated. They don’t involve lots of technology. They simply involve fooling people and using “old tech” ie. paper, pen and signatures to scam money out of companies. EU Business Register is one of those “services”. Here’s the current version of the form – that they’re distributing via spam email: Notice the costs? [...]

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Technology.ie Podcast Launch

By on September 28, 2011 in Blogging, business, Marketing, Podcasting

We’re probably a little bit late to the party with this one, but we’ve finally launched our podcast. Since it’s not just about us and our products and services we’re running it over on Technology.ie Conn Ó Muíneacháin from Edgecast Media has been podcasting for years and is a trusted member of the community, so [...]

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Don’t Be A Mug – Getting Business Online

By on July 12, 2011 in business, Hosting

As people who read this blog on a regular basis will know I love coffee and I love nice mugs, so it’s not surprising that we’d get a few “Getting Business Online” mugs done. I wanted to give members of our team who had worked on launching the initiative a “little something” and one of [...]

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Getting Business Online – Blacknight Partner With Google, An Post, Enterprise Boards

By on May 10, 2011 in business, Domains, Hosting, Marketing, News

I love it when a project we’ve been working on for months finally “goes live”. Yesterday we were at Google’s Dublin headquarters for the official launch of a very cool initiative. (See my Flickr stream for photos) The launch was a really great event, with representatives from just about every business organisation in Ireland present [...]

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PCI Compliance – What’s That?

By on April 18, 2011 in business, ecommerce, Tips

This is a guest blog post from Gary Conroy in Realex Payments. We continue to get a lot of queries about PCI.  Below are our answers to some of the questions we have been asked… What is PCI-DSS? The Data Security Standard is a minimum set of requirements put in place in order to protect [...]

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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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Facebook pages are getting an upgrade

By on February 10, 2011 in business, Marketing

If you’ve ever had a Facebook page one of the things that has no doubt really annoyed you big time is the fact that you never get notifications when someone likes something / comments on something or even just asks you a question on there. Unless you’re constantly monitoring the page, which I know I [...]

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SEO For Dummies

By on February 10, 2011 in business, howto, Marketing, Seo, Tips

Editor note: This is a guest post by Paul Savage of BlackDog (more info below article body). The purpose of this article is not to insult you by calling you a dummy for reading this, in fact I have no idea what your SEO acumen is, but hopefully after reading this you will have a [...]

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What Do You Want To Hear About?

By on January 6, 2011 in Blogging, business

Since it’s the beginning of the year I’m currently working on several “projects” for 2011 – or at least the first couple of months of the year. One are that I think we need to do more is in relation to this blog. Sure, we post on here semi-regularly, but I think we need to [...]

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Protect Your Brand – It’s Not Hard!

By on January 5, 2011 in business, cctlds, Domains, Marketing

We’ve spoken about the concept of “branding” on here a few times in the past. With more and more people going online every single day the importance of “owning” your “brand” online is growing day by day. The very concept of “brand” has changed significantly over the past few years. While you used to associate [...]

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