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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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social media dragons

Even Dragons Like Social Media

By on April 6, 2012 in Events, Marketing, Social Media

The Social Media Awards are in their second year (run by Mulley Communications). Last night the entries list was published and boy is it a long list! It’s so long that Damien and his team have had to split it up into sections: Social Media Effectiveness, Integrated, Social Media for Elections PR, State Body, Mobile [...]

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Social Media Awards 2012

Social Media Awards 2012 Nominations Close Friday

By on March 25, 2012 in Events

If your business is using social media then you might want to consider entering it for the 2012 Social Media Awards. Nominations close this Friday You can find out more about last year’s winners (including ourselves) in the whitepaper here. The event takes place in the Mansion House in Dublin on May 17th and if [...]

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World Hosting Days Event in Rust, Germany 2012

World Hosting Days 2012

By on March 21, 2012 in Events

This week we’re attending the WorldHostingDays Event at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany. This is one of the biggest web hosting events in the world. Last year for example there were over 3,500 attendees from all over the world. What’s it all about you may ask. It’s about experts from all over the world in the [...]

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Hola ICANN Costa Rica!

ICANN Costa Rica – What Will Be Going On?

By on March 8, 2012 in Domains, Events, icann, newtlds, policy

ICANN 43 is taking place next week in Costa Rica and we’ll be there. Due to miscalculations on my side I ended up getting here last night. I’ll be giving a talk on social media for country code managers later this afternoon as part of the Taller de Aspectos Económicos (Workshop on Economic Aspects) for [...]

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Bert tries poetry for Valentine's Day

Say It With Flowers .. Or Maybe A Domain?

By on February 10, 2012 in Domains, Events

Next week is Valentine’s Day.. so why settle for boring old flowers that wilt or chocolates that melt (and are full of calories)? Why not go for a proper gift – a nice new personal domain name! Bert likes the idea, and since he’s a big bad dragon (though probably cuter than most) we thought [...]

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All dressed up - Bert the dragon and measurement.ie

Measurement Tickets Up For Grabs!

By on January 20, 2012 in Events, Marketing

Measurement is being held next month in Dublin and we’re really excited about it and Bert got all dressed up! What is it? It’s a one day conference on social media measurement ie. tracking sales etc., from social media (and other outlets) Where is it? National College of Ireland, Dublin 1 When is it? February [...]

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Wikipedia And Other High Profile Sites Protest SOPA / PIPA

By on January 18, 2012 in Events, News, policy

I posted about our thoughts on SOPA and why we were opposed to it over Christmas. In the last week or so the US government has backpedalled to a certain degree in respect of the tabled SOPA legislation, but they still want something. Whether it’s “a” SOPA, PIPA or something else is you can be [...]

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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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RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group Presentation on Hosters vs Malware

By on November 2, 2011 in Events, Hosting, security

Yesterday afternoon I presented to the RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group at RIPE 63 in Vienna. Normally my presentations tend to run over, but yesterday, for possibly the first time ever, I “flew” through the presentation probably a bit too quickly! In any case here are the slides I used: Hosters vs. Malware: Best Practices View [...]

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Rathaus (Town hall) in Vienna, Austria

Talking Malware At RIPE 63

By on October 30, 2011 in Events, Hosting, security

Image via Wikipedia RIPE 63 is being held this week in Vienna, Austria and I’ll be heading out to the meeting tomorrow (assuming Air France’s industrial actions don’t affect me!) One of the areas that I’m particularly interested in is network abuse and as such I’ll be presenting on Tuesday afternoon as part of the [...]

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Sponsoring 24 The Web

By on October 20, 2011 in Charity, Events

Here at Blacknight we’re strong believers in supporting interesting and / or worthy causes. We’ve sponsored plenty of events over the last few years and hopefully we’ll continue to be able to do so. Personally I love the concept behind 24 The Web. It’s so simple and incredible, so when I heard that Stewart was [...]

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