Today’s the first day back at work in 2012 for most people. We know that a lot of people find January to be a tough month … but every cloud has a silver lining .. January is sale time! Here at Blacknight we like bringing you discounts whenever and whereever we can. This January’s sale, [...]

January Blues Getting You Down? Save Big In Our Mega Hosting and Domain Name Sale!
Technical Info: Changes To Sending Email
We have made some changes to our shared email services (not Hosted Exchange) that affect how people send email. You will need to enable SMTP Authentication if you aren’t using it already. There are some instructions here More info here

Hosted Exchange is getting updated
As part of our commitment to offer the best solution to our customers, we are over the next few weeks, planning to migrate all of our Hosted Exchange customers to Exchange 2010. Exchange 2010 offers the end user far more features over Exchange 2007, such as the premium version of OWA (Outlook Web App) being [...]

Say Hello To Blackberry and Sharepoint
Our technical team love playing with new “toys”, so rolling out new services on our business email hosting platform was something they were “itching” to get stuck into. We are now offering two optional upgrades for our business email hosting clients (on Microsoft Exchange): SharePoint Blackberry Enterprise If you already have a hosted Exchange plan [...]
Social Media and A Hosting Provider / Domain Registrar
When you don’t have a massive marketing budget you need to be careful how you spend what you have and try to find alternate methods to promote your business. Promoting your business shouldn’t be just about the sale. Of course you need to make sales, but there are better ways to interact with people than [...]

Hosted Exchange – More Space – Less Buck
It’s a new year, so we’re rejigging some of our service offerings. We’re also giving a nice discount, but you’ll have to read more about our hosted email service to get it .. And besides, any excuse to use photos of cute kittens is always welcome, isn’t it? So our Hosted Exchange plans have now [...]
Google Adwords Phishing Email
Every single day we see phishing emails targetting our clients. While some are amateurish or so irrelevant that they are unlikely to dupe the recipients, others are very carefully crafted. In the last couple of weeks a number of these phishing emails have been targetting Google Adwords advertisers. The latest one, a sample of which [...]
Free Email Marketing Credits
I love being able to organise discounts and deals for our clients. It’s fun. So this latest offer is really exciting. It’s not a mere discount – it’s actually 100% free! Spinnaker Pro, who offer a range of email marketing services, have teamed up with us to give our clients 1000 free email credits. Simply [...]
Quick Tour Of AntiSpam.ie
We’ve been proactive about spam for a long time. While all our hosting accounts have some kind of email filtering available with them sometimes it’s simply not enough, so we also offer a premium service – AntiSpam.ie The web based control panel allows you to tweak a lot of settings and gives you a silly [...]
Hosted Exchange Email Now Available
Today we are happy to announce our new Hosted Exchange range of services. Our technical team have been working on putting together a really nice Hosted Exchange Product that will fit the needs of business users. Why worry about patching and maintaining an office mail server, when you can let our team worry about it [...]

New e-mail related feature
Today we can announce that Qmail (email) users on every subscription will have their own service user. Wow you say that’s brilliant? Or maybe you might ask “What is a service user?”. Well simply put, you can login to https://cp.blacknight.com with your e-mail address and password and change your password. This feature has been requested [...]
Enom Phishing Warning
If you have registered a .com/net/org/info/biz or mobi domain name through us (or anyone else for that matter) you will normally get an email once a year asking you to verify your whois details. This is normal. If you need to update the details you can do so via your control panel. At no time [...]
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