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Paypal Users – Check Your Code!

By on April 18, 2012 in ecommerce

Paypal are making some subtle, yet important, changes in how they handle redirects and landing pages for their merchants ie. those of us who use Paypal as a method of accepting payments. If you don’t accept payments using Paypal then this will not impact you. At the moment if you are an Irish Paypal user [...]

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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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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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Metrics – How We Love And Hate Them

By on September 20, 2010 in Blogging, business, ecommerce, Marketing

Metrics. Statistics. Analytics. Tracking. If you are involved in online business you probably have come across some (or all) of those terms at some stage. If you are paying anyone to do any work for you in terms of SEO,

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Credit Card / Laser Processing Issue

By on December 29, 2008 in Blacknight, ecommerce, Service Issue

We’re currently encountering issues with processing payments via Laser / Credit Card (Mastercard / Visa) Please keep an eye on the status site post for updates UPDATE 2320 – this issue should now be resolved

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Bulk Domain Orders Are Here!

By on August 22, 2008 in afilias, Blacknight, Domains, dotasia, dotmobi, ecommerce, eurid, icann, iedr, irishblogs, Marketing, nominet, Tips, verisign

One of the things that people really really hated about our old order system was the lack of a bulk order option for domains. Our nice new shiny order system solves this issue once and for all! You can now order up to 100 domains at once via our new bulk order system. We’re also [...]

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Billing System Maintenance Tonight

By on June 5, 2008 in Blacknight, ecommerce, irishblogs, Maintenance

We’re doing some maintenance on our billing system this evening from around 8pm (Irish time) to around 9pm. During this period the following services will NOT be available via the main Blacknight website: New orders – hosting & domains – this does not have any impact on VPS hosting Payments Viewing / editing account details [...]

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It’s Scam Time (again!)

By on May 21, 2008 in Domains, ecommerce, Email, irishblogs, security, Tips

Every time I write one of these “heads up” posts I silently hope and pray that it will be the last. Of course it never is. At present there are two scams doing the rounds. Our “friends” in Domain Registry of America are still sending out letters to thousands of domain holders. As I’ve said [...]

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Paypal Issues

By on May 20, 2008 in Blacknight, ecommerce, Maintenance

We’ve been encountering some issues with Paypal integration with billing.blacknight.ie, so we have temporarily disabled Paypal payments. This DOES NOT affect blacknightVPS.com We hope to have this resolved later today, but it may take longer UPDATE: This issue has been resolved

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Hatching New Business Offerings For Spring

By on March 21, 2008 in Blacknight, ecommerce, Hosting, irishblogs

Well it’s that Easter thing again. Friday isn’t a “real” holiday, so our offices are open pretty much all day today. Monday is a bank holiday in most EU countries, so we’ll be operating on reduced staff numbers. But Tuesday we’re back in force. So what’s with the image? Well I was looking for something [...]

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Heads Up! Blacknight Billing Move Coming Soon

By on March 13, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, ecommerce, Email, Hosting, irishblogs, Maintenance, News, security, Service Issue

If you’re not an existing Blacknight client this post isn’t going to be that interesting or relevant to you, so you might want to move along… The short version of this post: We’ll be emailing you to get you to choose a new username for the new control panel and billing system. The email will [...]

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Credit Card Processing Issue Resolved

By on December 31, 2007 in Blacknight, ecommerce, irishblogs, Programming

The expression “it never rains but it pours” springs to mind today …. Earlier today we had a serious network issue and as soon as that was resolved we discovered a glitch in our online credit card processing. I’m not a programmer, so I won’t even pretend to understand exactly what happened, but I do [...]

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