Anyone who knows me knows that I’m passionate about the Internet. They’ll probably also tell you that I’m very passionate about domains and marketing. A good domain, in my opinion, can make or break a business. If you’re too “clever” people won’t be able to find you, or send you email. Sure, if you’re a [...]
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RIPE Coming To Dublin And We’re Sponsoring AND Speaking
Next month RIPE 66 will be held in Dublin. And not only will we be attending, but we’re also sponsoring it and I’ll be speaking at it. I’ve been to several RIPE meetings in the past and they’re an interesting mix of material covering both policy and highly technical topics. This time round I’m speaking [...]
Don’t Ignore The Internet’s Nuts and Bolts
The internet as we know it is under constant attack. I don’t mean by DDOS or other “charming” things, though it’d be incredibly dumb to ignore them. What I’m talking about is the ongoing battle between the “open” and “free”. What I’m talking about is the balance between industry “self-regulation” vs government’s “top down” regulation [...]
Is English Your Second Language?
While we might be a 100% Irish owned company (and proud of it!) we have clients in over 120 countries worldwide. For many of our clients English is not their first language and we want to be able to serve them better. So with that in mind we’re looking for multi-lingual staff to join our [...]
Blacknight Urges ICANN to Reconsider “Closed Generic” TLDs
We’ve posted about “closed generics” a few times in the past. What are they? Basically they’re applications for new tlds that have two characteristics: the string (the bit on the right of the dot) is very generic the applicant has stated that they don’t plan on allowing the public to register domains using the extension [...]
Want A Job? Linux & Windows Expertise Required
We are hiring again. (I love being able to say that!) This time round we’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer with experience and knowledge of both Windows and Linux. What kind of things would you be doing? As part of our engineering team you’d be working on both maintaining thousands of servers (both virtual [...]
Blacknight Sponsor 2nd Annual Measurement.ie Conference – Leading Irish registrar supports social data community
We sponsor a select number of events, causes and groups every year (before someone decides to flood my inbox asking for sponsorship!). How do we select them? There aren’t any “set” criteria – the basic criterion is that they have to pass our “sniff” test. Either we think the event is “cool” or “interesting” or [...]
Irish registrar introduces a Domain Lookup Service that is truly for everyone
We’ve been working on a bunch of projects internally for the last few months. Some of them aren’t ever going to be “visible”, but some, like this one, will be. WhoOwns.it is a new domain lookup and search service that we’re announcing today. It’s still being tweaked and improved, so you’ll see more features being [...]
Blacknight Encourage Customers to Upgrade Their Digital Lives in The New Year
It’s a New Year, so it’s a perfect time to make changes, start new projects and “put your best foot forward”. With that in mind we’re encouraging people to have a look at their “digital life” and see how they can make the best of it (watch this space for more articles on this in [...]
Press Release: Blacknight Celebrates the Holidays Early With the Launch of Christmascracker.biz
If you don’t market your products or services you won’t make any sales – unless you’ve got a monopoly on the product or service you offer! We know how hard it is to generate sales and we also know that a lot of our clients and partners offer really cool and good quality products and [...]
Press Release: Blacknight Customers Stand Out With .ME Domains
There’s no point having a super duper “kick ass” discount promotion on .me domain names if nobody knows about it so of course we’ve sent out a press release on this… Here it is Blacknight Customers Stand Out With .ME Domains Registrar offers deep discounts on .ME domains with the purchase of a Hosting package [...]
Press Release: Blacknight Announces Cutting Edge Promotion for the Catalan Language Community
Following on the announcement of the .cat promotion earlier this week we’ve launched a rather special advertising campaign on Facebook. Unlike a lot of Facebook advertising campaigns we’ve opted to make use of some of the more advanced targetting options that the Facebook platform offers. In the case of .cat domain names it’s a very [...]
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