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A Not So Subliminal Message – Register .me Domains!!

By on October 26, 2012 in Domains, dotme, humour

Not sure if this could take off as a meme, but it won’t be for lack of trying! Go here – act now – you know you want to!!   And congratulations to the entire .me team for their continued success – they’ve just announced they’ve broken 650k domain names registered and are the fastest [...]

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Happy Friday, Happy Katie, Happy Ireland, Happy Blacknight

By on August 10, 2012 in .co, Competitions, Events, humour, Social Media

Well it’s Friday so I think that immediately puts most people in a good mood. Couple that with the amazing win by Katie Taylor yesterday and you can’t help but feel proud to be Irish. So we’ve gone and done things the Blacknight way and want to say a huge congratulations to her and let’s [...]

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Don’t Get Stuck In A Rut

By on May 24, 2011 in Blacknight, Hosting, humour, Promotions

To celebrate the visit of President Obama to Ireland we thought we’d run a “wee” offer on hosting and domains No prizes for guessing where we got our inspiration for the graphic from! So if you use the coupon code: obama (all lower case, no spaces) you can avail of the following special discount pricing: [...]

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The Funny Side To .Tel

By on April 5, 2009 in Domains, dottel, humour

I “hangout” on a lot of domain related fora and blogs, so when I saw this I just had to share it with our readers (click to enlarge) Comic strip reproduced with permission from Chef Patrick

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Blacknight To Rebrand And Offer Scuba Gear

By on August 18, 2008 in Blacknight, Careers, humour, irishblogs, News

At times I get out of bed in the morning and I wonder why on earth I’m involved in this “game”. Maybe I should have got into something else. But what? The last couple of weeks’ rain has inspired me, as well as soaking me to the skin. Add to that the flooding of some [...]

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The Web before BC (Blacknight came)

Cave Art – Blacknight Style!

By on April 28, 2008 in Blacknight, humour, irishblogs, Marketing

It’s amazing what designers come up with at times! Mouse over it to see what it’s all about ….

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Funny Penguins and Other Print Advertising

By on April 22, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, humour, irishblogs, Marketing

For the last few months we have been regular advertisers in a number of UK magazines including Linux Format. Print advertising is an interesting “game”. You can spend a fortune and reap no return or spend very little and see your sales jump over night. For the first few months of our advertising “run” in [...]

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Explaining RAID Disks

By on April 4, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, humour, irishblogs, redundancy, Tips

I hate acronyms. Of course they’re impossible to avoid if you work in IT, but that doesn’t mean I have to like them. RAID is one of those acronyms that really wrecks my head. Not RAID itself which means simply Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, but the different types of RAID array that can exist. [...]

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Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously

By on February 20, 2008 in Blacknight, humour, irishblogs

I’d like to think that we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Sure – hosting is a serious business, but there’s nothing wrong with having a bit of a laugh from time to time – even if its from a competitor! One of our competitors posted a link to a YouTube video today that was quite [...]

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Thanks for the product name feedback

By on December 12, 2007 in Blacknight, Hosting, humour, irishblogs, Marketing

A couple of months ago (time flies!) I was asking people both here and on LinkedIn for product name suggestions. I was expecting some feedback, but I was totally unprepared for the sheer volume of replies I got. Wow! Thanks for taking the time to exercise your grey matter and help us out! Some of [...]

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Will it all go pop?

By on December 6, 2007 in humour

A lot of our clients share a common trait. They are confident that their idea will succeed. It’s great to see so much optimism, but people shouldn’t take themselves too seriously! Have a look at this (pump up the volume if you can!): With thanks to Jimmy for sharing the link! Edit: Pointed to update [...]

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