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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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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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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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Blacknight Leads the Irish Market for the Third Year in a Row

By on February 8, 2012 in Hosting, Marketing, Press Releases

We pushed out this press release yesterday morning, though, as I was on the road all day yesterday, we didn’t get a chance to post about it here. Here it is: Blacknight is Named Irelands Number One Hosting Provider – Blacknight Leads the Irish Market for the Third Year in a Row Blacknight has been [...]

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Blacknight Warn Users to Mind Their Content Management Systems

By on August 4, 2011 in Press Releases, Programming, security, Tips

Cases of compromised website Content Management Systems (CMS) are on the rise and Blacknight would like to remind users to update their CMS and plugins regularly. There is nothing more Internet-embarrassing than losing control of your website and recent Content Management System breaches are a reminder of the importance of operating your online business in [...]

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2011 Is The Summer of .ME

By on July 28, 2011 in Domains, dotme, Press Releases, Promotions

July 28, 2011 – Carlow, Ireland – Irish registrar Blacknight has declared summer 2011 “The Summer of .me.” Whether your Summer of .me adventure is spent climbing a mountain or cooling off indoors in front of your computer, use your .ME domain to tell the world what you’ve been doing.  In celebration of The Summer [...]

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Blacknight Sponsoring Best Use Of Social Media Award

By on July 22, 2011 in Blacknight, Events, Marketing, Press Releases

We’ve been involved with the Irish Internet Association and their annual awards ceremony, the Net Visionary Awards, for several years. We’ve sponsored it, been nominated, been shortlisted and even won a few awards over the past few years. This year we’re sponsoring a category that we feel particularly strongly about – “Best Use of Social [...]

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Blacknight Warn Consumers Against New gTLD Pre-Registration

By on June 30, 2011 in Domains, icann, newtlds, Press Releases

June 30, 2011 – Carlow Ireland -Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com) warn domain registrants to beware of companies offering pre-registrations in New gTLDs. Last week in Singapore, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), announced that it would launch a program to include new generic top-level domains.  For those unfamiliar with the terminology, gTLD is an acronym [...]

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Blacknight Welcomes the Approval of New gTLDs

By on June 20, 2011 in Domains, newtlds, Press Releases

This morning in Singapore, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a program that will change the Internet, as we know it. Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com) welcome  ICANN’ s decision to launch new generic top-level domains. A top-level domain includes extensions (as in after the dot) such as .com, .net, .org. The New gTLD [...]

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Blacknight To Offer .XXX Domain Names This Autumn

By on May 20, 2011 in Domains, Press Releases, xxx

Blacknight are strong believers in freedom of choice and this autumn, they will be giving you the freedom to choose to register an .xxx domain name. Having a long history of early adoption and innovation in the domain space, Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com) are to be among the first registrars to offer this new Internet extension (also [...]

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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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Blacknight Solutions Warn of Domain Renewal Scams

By on April 26, 2011 in Domains, Press Releases, security, Tips

Carlow, April 26th Domain space innovators Blacknight Solutions are striving to make the public aware of Domain Renewal Scams. When the time comes to renew a domain name, registrants receive renewal notices via email from their registrar. However, an overwhelming number of domain registrants are receiving renewal requests via postal mail and email from entities [...]

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