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Rome Here We Come!

By on November 9, 2010 in Events

RIPE, which is in charge of IP addresses and other technical resources for the internet in Europe, is holding its next meeting in Rome. We have been members of RIPE for a few years, but while we have been active on some of the mailing lists and working groups, we’ve never actually attended a meeting. [...]

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CENTR Debate On Reputational DNS

By on October 10, 2010 in cctlds, Domains, Events

CENTR (Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries), which is the European association for country code domain name registry managers, held their 43rd General Assembly in Brussels last week. I was invited to speak at the meeting, but rather than giving a “talk” the format was a debate about “reputational DNS”. So what exactly [...]

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How DNS Works – For Non-Technical People

By on December 3, 2009 in Domains

DNS is a wonderful thing.Honest!Unfortunately, while it may be the glue that binds everything together (excuse the puns!) , it is one of those things that really confuses people. CENTR have released a really nice and simple guide to how it works which is aimed at “normal” people Have a look for yourself: Now, does [...]

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Check Your DNS Easily

By on October 19, 2009 in Domains, Tips

People get confused by DNS and apart from email related issues it probably accounts for more technical support issues than anything else. The problems and the issues may not go away anytime soon, but we thought we could help people resolve them quickly with a simple online tool Enter “My DNS Check“.. Based on the [...]

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ICANN Seoul – Less Than A Week Away

By on October 17, 2009 in Events, icann

The ICANN meeting in Seoul will be starting next weekend and we will be attending. The agenda will, as usual, be varied with topics covering the many different areas of internet policy, current topics and the future. One of the hottest topics (again!) will be the introduction of new TLDs (domain extensions). Other topics such [...]

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CM Launch Delayed

By on August 27, 2009 in cctlds, Domains

The .cm launch was meant to be happening today. It’s not and instead I’m writing to say that it’s been delayed. When will it launch? We honestly don’t know. COCCA, who run the backend registry services for .cm, have serious concerns about the technical stability of the .cm (Cameroon) nameservers, which is why they delayed [...]

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Are You Interested In Training?

By on May 17, 2009 in Blacknight, Hosting

Following on from some random chatter on Twitter earlier this evening it’s become apparent that some people would be interested in training.. Training on what though? Well that’s really up to you… Obvious topics that could be considered: the control panel Plesk dns basics domain basics (and maybe more advanced topics?) So would people be [...]

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Updating Your Nameservers Via The Blacknight Control Panel

By on January 11, 2009 in Blacknight, Domains, howto, Tips

If you’re moving your domain to us from another provider please read our basic guides on moving hosting provider and transferring domains. Once the domain has actually been transferred to us you will need to update the DNS servers (nameservers) so that the rest of the internet knows to look to our servers and not [...]

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More Flash Tutorials Added – Application Vault – DNS

By on August 28, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, Hosting, irishblogs, Tips

We’ve added a couple of more Flash tutorials to the support section of our site. The new tutorials cover using the control panel to manage DNS, change nameservers and use the autoinstaller (Application Vault) to setup applications like WordPress or Movable Type. You can now easily manage your domain’s DNS settings including setting up both [...]

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New Lower Priced Domain Names

By on August 12, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains

To celebrate the launch of our nice new shiny hosting platform we’ve slashed the price on domains by about 33%. We were charging € 8.25 for a .com, whereas now we’re charging a mere € 5.99. And don’t forget our fantastic price on IE domains – a mere 24.99 € ! When you combine that [...]

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IE Domain Registry Introducing Multiyear Registrations – Finally!

By on August 11, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, iedr, irishblogs, News

The IEDR, the people who look after the IE domain space, have announced the introduction of multiyear registrations of IE domains. The change comes into effect at close of business Wednesday and will allow us to offer IE domains for periods up to 10 years, namely: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 year registration [...]

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Is Your DNS Secure? Check your domain now!

By on August 9, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, Hosting, icann, irishblogs, security, Tips

Image via Wikipedia DNS is one of the simplest yet most misunderstood and undervalued parts of the entire internet system. If DNS is not setup correctly your website(s) will not display, or if your ISP’s DNS is having issues you won’t be able to visit websites either. Of course there are also nasty things that [...]

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