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and the kindle Paperwhite winner is…

By on February 1, 2013 in Competitions

We’ve been running a competition to win a Kindle Paperwhite for the last few weeks and we’re pleased to say we’re finally announcing the winner. Keith from Kildare has been contacted already and the below should be winging it’s way to him shortly. Even if you didn’t win you can still be a winner with [...]

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Countdown To Helpdesk Switchover

By on January 21, 2013 in Customer Service

Our teams are working hard today behind the scenes to make the final preparations for tomorrow’s “big switch”. They’ve imported or re-created (and updated) hundreds of FAQ articles and wiki entries. We’ve setup staff members with their logins .. and we’re enabling not only “single sign on” for Blacknight account holders, but we should be [...]

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How could two coffees transform your business? Blacknight business email advert for print media usage

Coffee and Email – Our Current Print Advertising Campaign

By on January 15, 2013 in business, Email, Marketing

At the moment we’re focussing our marketing spend on “digital”. We run Facebook ads, Google Ads and are running a number of marketing promotions via social media and this blog. But we still like print. It has a different reach. A different audience. A different “life span”. But our print ad imagery is quite different [...]

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Missing Out On Facebook Offers And Updates?

By on November 12, 2012 in Social Media, Tips

As you may know we run some promotions and giveaways via Facebook and Twitter. We also try to post news, tips and relevant things there .. sometimes more than we post here .. Of course Facebook is constantly changing how they display content to their users, so some of you might be having issues seeing [...]

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Press Release: Blacknight Announces Cutting Edge Promotion for the Catalan Language Community

By on November 8, 2012 in Domains, dotcat, Press Releases, Promotions

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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Like .it?

By on October 25, 2012 in Domains, it, Marketing, Promotions

I sometimes worry a bit about our designer. He’s a nice guy, but he’s a little odd at the best of times. Today, for example, I asked him for a simple graphic to promote our latest special offer. Now what on earth the image above has to do with .it domain names is beyond me, [...]

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Twitter Cards Now Enabled!

By on September 17, 2012 in Marketing, Social Media, WordPress

As regular readers of our blog know we like to share our content across multiple social networks and tend to be relatively early adopters.. A few weeks ago Yoast posted about Twitter cards and how they were now “in the wild”. Unfortunately you still have to go to the Twitter developer site and signup to [...]

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Follow Us For Webfest – Life Is Web Specials

By on September 17, 2012 in dotme, Events, Marketing, Promotions

We’ll be attending Webfest in Budva, Montenegro this week… So that seems like a perfectly good reason excuse to celebrate with some special offers and discounts on domains and hosting .. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ and keep a close eye out for Webfest related offers. (NB: We won’t be publishing the offer [...]

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Everything you wanted to know about mobile but were too afraid to ask

By on August 23, 2012 in Hosting, mobile, Tips

Hands up if you know someone with a mobile phone Hands up if you know someone who uses the internet on their mobile Hands up if you use the internet on your mobile Hands up if you have a website If you’re reading this post you’ve probably thought about putting your hand up at least [...]

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All Grown Up? Why Not Mark Your Territory Online With .Me?

By on August 15, 2012 in Domains, dotme, Marketing, Promotions

Today thousands of young people throughout Ireland will be getting their Leaving Certificate results. (We’re a 100% Irish owned company, so we kind of noticed the media coverage!) The exam names may change from country to country, but every year thousands of young people around the world move from the relative safety of secondary school [...]

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Celebrate Europe Day

By on May 9, 2012 in Domains, eurid, Marketing, Promotions

Today is Europe Day, so we thought we’d do a couple of small things to celebrate. First off we’re going to give away a few .eu key rings – watch our Facebook page for details. Secondly to help businesses that want to explore the EU market we’re offering a nice discount on .eu domain name [...]

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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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