The last couple of days have been very “interesting”. As I mentioned previously, the Irish government intends to enact legislation that could have a “chilling effect”. I went into this a bit in my previous post and far more eloquent people have written extensively about the entire subject. My key issues with the legislation can [...]
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Wikipedia And Other High Profile Sites Protest SOPA / PIPA
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 [...]
Happy New Year 2012
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.. [...]
New options available on Cloud Hosting
We’re rolling out a number of upgrades to our cloud hosting platform today. The first that we’re happy to announce is the availablilty of CloudLinux. CloudLinux is a commercial Linux OS that is designed specifically for hosting and offers much better reliability and stability than other Linux distributions. As a special offer monthly cloud hosting [...]
CoCCA Domain Registry Changes Effective November 7th 2011
CoCCA, which is the registry operator for several country code top level domains (ccTLDs) is making some significant changes to their policies effective November 7th 2011. You can read the official announcement on their site here. We were only informed of this policy change this evening – a week prior to it coming into effect. [...]
KnightBuilder Gets an Update
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 [...]
Pix.ie Partner With Blacknight On IPv6 Upgrade
May 18 , 2011 – Carlow Ireland – Ireland’s most popular domain name registrar Blacknight have recently partnered with Pix.ie, Ireland’s most popular photo sharing site to complete a major infrastructure upgrade to support the new Internet address space IPv6. Blacknight, leaders in the migration to IPv6 and members of the Irish IPv6 taskforce have [...]
Social Media Awards Finalists Announced – And We Are On The List!
Earlier this morning the finalists for the 1st Social Media Awards were announced and I’m thrilled that we are on the list. Not only are we on the list, but we are on the list of finalists in several categories: Facebook Page for A Business Best Business Twitter Account – Marketing & Sales Best Business [...]
Getting Business Online – Blacknight Partner With Google, An Post, Enterprise Boards
I love it when a project we’ve been working on for months finally “goes live”. Yesterday we were at Google’s Dublin headquarters for the official launch of a very cool initiative. (See my Flickr stream for photos) The launch was a really great event, with representatives from just about every business organisation in Ireland present [...]
Another Milestone Another Special Offer
I’m a strong believer in setting goals. They help me to remain focussed. We have been the largest registrar of .eu domains in Ireland for quite some time, but I really wanted to get us into the top 100 .eu domain name registrars globally. So I was delighted to get an email from one of [...]
IRMA, Eircom and the Death of Freedom
I was brought up to be proud of my heritage. Having lived and worked outside Ireland I was never ashamed of my Irish identity. However that has changed. When private organisations like IRMA and Eircom skip the judicial process and enter into agreements that curtail free speech it makes me ashamed to carry an Irish [...]
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