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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Happy Easter 2012

Save Money Buy More Easter Eggs!

By on April 5, 2012 in Promotions

This weekend is Easter, which is a wonderful excuse for people to gorge themselves on chocolate eggs and other tasty goodies! Here at Blacknight we thought we’d be nice to people and help them save a bit of cash, so we’re giving a discount on 1 year .eu registrations AND we’re also giving a nice [...]

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Have You Updated Your Business Facebook Page For The Timeline?

By on April 2, 2012 in General, Marketing, Tips

Facebook introduced the new timeline for users a few months ago. For the last month or so they’ve let business pages switch on the new timeline and let people know that on the 30th of March all pages would be switched over. The time is now so if you haven’t updated or checked in on [...]

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8 bit Google Maps showing our offices

Remember Low Resolution Graphics?

By on April 1, 2012 in General

Today is April Fool’s Day, so a lot of people and companies are playing silly tricks on people. Google Maps currently has an option labelled “Quest” which displays maps using 8 bit graphics. It reminds me of when I first started using computers back in the 1980s. Computers were a lot less powerful – my [...]

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Acquiring an Unavailable Domain Name On Your Own.

By on March 30, 2012 in aftermarket, Domains, Tips

Previously, Michele wrote about acquiring domain names through third party domain acquisitions specialists and gave tips on how to smartly and effectively work with them to get a domain. However, there is more than one way to skin a domain name, and if you decide to acquire a name on your own there are several [...]

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Celebrating 10 million .uk domains

Register Or Renew A UK Domain And Maybe Win An IPad

By on March 29, 2012 in Competitions, Domains, nominet

Everyone loves iPads. You’d probably be lying if you said otherwise! So here’s a really nice promotion from our friends at Nominet, the .uk domain name registry. If you register OR renew a .uk domain name between now and 26th April 2012 and you could win an iPad. They’re giving away an iPad each day [...]

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Wanted : Software Engineers / Developers

By on March 28, 2012 in General

We’re hiring again! This time round we’re hiring for a number of software engineer roles in our development team. If you think you fit the part, or you know someone who might be interested then here’s the full job spec: Headquartered in Carlow with offices in Carlow and Dublin, Blacknight is the Irish market leader [...]

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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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Paddy's Day Opening Hours

St. Patrick’s Weekend opening hours.

By on March 16, 2012 in General

Firstly Happy Paddy’s day in advance in case you’re celebrating it. Here’s what you need to know this St. Patrick’s day weekend. Opening hours: Saturday: As usual sales and support will be available via ticketing system and live chat  from 12:00 – 16:00 GMT Sunday: Support will be available via ticketing system and live chat [...]

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Windows 8 Beta - Blacknight Developer Preview

Windows 8 Beta developer preview

By on March 12, 2012 in Cloud Hosting, Hosting

Microsoft have announced the release of Windows 8 beta recently. We thought that  some of our existing customers might like to get a free peek at it, so we put together a special Windows Server 8 plan for a select few customers (for a limited period of time).  If you are interested in Windows 8 [...]

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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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