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Expand Your Online Business Into the US market

Targetting the US Market? Maybe A .US Domain Makes Sense?

By on March 13, 2013 in business, cctlds, Domains

The internet is global, but it’s also local. What do I mean? If you’re an Irish business you probably have a .ie domain name. If you’re based in the UK then you probably have a co.uk website. Why? Because people expect you to and they know and trust the concept of “local”. If you want [...]

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Blacknight Urges ICANN to Reconsider “Closed Generic” TLDs

By on February 18, 2013 in Blogging, business, Domains, icann, newtlds, policy, Press Releases, WordPress

We’ve posted about “closed generics” a few times in the past. What are they? Basically they’re applications for new tlds that have two characteristics: the string (the bit on the right of the dot) is very generic the applicant has stated that they don’t plan on allowing the public to register domains using the extension [...]

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Why choose Blacknight

By on January 31, 2013 in Blacknight, business, Domains, ecommerce, Hosting

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 [...]

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How could two coffees transform your business? Blacknight business email advert for print media usage

Coffee and Email – Our Current Print Advertising Campaign

By on January 15, 2013 in business, Email, Marketing

At the moment we’re focussing our marketing spend on “digital”. We run Facebook ads, Google Ads and are running a number of marketing promotions via social media and this blog. But we still like print. It has a different reach. A different audience. A different “life span”. But our print ad imagery is quite different [...]

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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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Changes are afoot - domain pricing tweaks

Domain Pricing Changes Are Afoot

By on July 3, 2012 in business, Domains

We’ve always been pretty aggressive about our domain pricing strategy. Over the last couple of years we’ve barely touched our pricing on new domain registrations and transfers, but have been running many of them at a deep discount. Most of the domain registries operate in US dollars, while we operate in the Euro zone. So [...]

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Getting Business Online & Google AdWords

Getting Business Online & Google AdWords

By on June 15, 2012 in business, Marketing, Tips

Wow, what a year for Getting Irish Business Online! Over 10,000 businesses have taken the first steps towards getting online and created their website through the initiative. We know there are many more to come. To sign up simply visit the Getting Business Online website and follow the steps. It really is that easy! Your [...]

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Opinion: Ireland Needs A Voice On Internet Policy

By on June 3, 2012 in business, policy

Today’s Sunday Business Post has a short opinion piece by me in their “Real Views” section, which is a weekly opinion piece / column from an SME for SMEs. Since a lot of our readers aren’t in Ireland I’m republishing it here. Since I moved back to Ireland from Italy in 2003 to run my [...]

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Blacknight on Google places

Tweaking And Enhancing Your Google Places Page

By on May 23, 2012 in business, Marketing, Seo, Tips

Getting found online these days is a “must” for any business – large or small. One of the relatively simple things you can do is make sure that your business is listed on Google places. If you’re not already listed you can start the signup process online here. You will need to validate your business [...]

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Press Release: Blacknight Announce Over 10,000 Irish Businesses Are Participating in Getting Business Online

By on May 16, 2012 in business, Press Releases

We put this release out earlier today about the first year of the Getting Business Online project. It’s been an interesting year! So far the story has been picked up in a few media outlets including: DomainIncite: Even when the domains are free, Irish small businesses prefer .com to .ie   Here’s the release: May [...]

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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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