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Bert’s Happy As Blacknight Made The Finals Of The Social Media Awards

By on May 4, 2012 in News, Press Releases, Social Media

Bert and the entire Blacknight team are delighted that we’ve made it into the finals for the Social Media Awards. The list of finalists was announced last night and we’re really honoured to have made it this far. Best of luck to everyone! Here’s our press release on the announcement that’s going out this afternoon: [...]

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Blacknight Announce Available Positions In Carlow Office

By on April 16, 2012 in Careers, News, Press Releases

Our latest press release went out this morning. Full text below:   Blacknight Announce Available Positions In Carlow Office Irish registrar and hosting company continues to grow despite economic downturn Blacknight is growing despite one of the toughest economic downturns on record. At a time when many companies are laying off staff and shuttering offices, [...]

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Anonymous Targets Irish Government Sites In Response To “Irish SOPA”

By on January 25, 2012 in News, policy

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

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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Cloud Store Updates

New options available on Cloud Hosting

By on December 15, 2011 in Cloud Hosting, Hosting, News

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 [...]

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CoCCA Domain Registry Changes Effective November 7th 2011

By on October 30, 2011 in cctlds, Domains, News

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. [...]

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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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Combining DNS, RSS and FourSquare

By on August 15, 2011 in Domains, News

I love playing with social media services and I love new technologies. When we first started working on RSS.me it was to provide a “sane” service for ourselves and by extension, me. So doing something that allowed a combination of domains AND social media AND technology obviously was going to happen at some point .. [...]

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Pix.ie Partner With Blacknight On IPv6 Upgrade

By on May 18, 2011 in Blacknight, News, Press Releases

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 [...]

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Social Media Awards Finalist!

Social Media Awards Finalists Announced – And We Are On The List!

By on May 17, 2011 in Events, News

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 [...]

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Getting Business Online – Blacknight Partner With Google, An Post, Enterprise Boards

By on May 10, 2011 in business, Domains, Hosting, Marketing, News

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 [...]

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