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Celebrate 10 Years Of Blacknight & Win A Google Nexus 7!

By on May 3, 2013 in Competitions

10 years ago this month my business partner and I sat down and signed the paperwork to incorporate the company. 10 years later and we’re still here. Over the coming weeks we’ll be talking a bit about what we’ve been up to over the last 10 years. It’s been great so far, though it’s also [...]

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.co breaks 1.5 million domain names registered proving pigs might fly

Congratulations To CoInternet (.co) On 1.5 Million Domains!

By on March 26, 2013 in .co, Domains

A couple of hours ago the CEO of .co, Juan Diego Calle, posted a short update, but it signified a major milestone: 1,499,999 … good bye 400s.Good morning 500s. — Juan Diego Calle (@juandiegocalle) March 26, 2013 The .co domain has broken the 1.5 million domain name mark! That is truly impressive, especially when you [...]

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Blacknight Urges ICANN to Reconsider “Closed Generic” TLDs

By on February 18, 2013 in Blogging, business, Domains, icann, newtlds, policy, Press Releases, WordPress

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 [...]

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helpdesk migration d-day

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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Special offers via the Blacknight control panel

Take Advantage Of Special Offers

By on December 6, 2012 in Promotions, Tips

Existing Blacknight client? Want to take advantage of the Google Adwords deal? Or how about the stock photos one? You can access these and other special offers easily via your control panel. They all “live” under the “special offers” tab: Any questions? Let us know! Related articles Market and Promote Your Online Business (technology.ie) Press [...]

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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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Turn €25 Into €100 Google Adwords Credit

By on October 3, 2012 in Hosting, Marketing, Promotions

We’ve been partnering with Google to offer our customers Google Adwords credit for the last couple of years. They’ve recently changed the offer slightly so here’s a quick overview of what you can get now. First off it’s much simpler. We used to have different credit values based on which hosting plan you got. Now [...]

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free .co domains with Blacknight

Press Release: Blacknight Announce Free .CO Domains for Getting Business Online

By on October 1, 2012 in .co, Domains, Marketing, Press Releases

I love it when a plan comes together! Over the past few weeks (and months) our team has been working on making some changes and enhancements to the Getting Business Online in order to improve the service for everyone. Some of the changes are subtle, yet important, while others are pretty big. Today we are [...]

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Google+ Shorter Profile and the Importance of Social

By on September 30, 2012 in Marketing, Social Media

We’re strong believers in social media, so when Google+ opened its doors to business we made sure that we got a page. But up until a few weeks ago the URLs for accessing most business pages were long and not at all memorable. A bit like an IP address, it was a long string of [...]

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webfest 2012 Budva - save on .me

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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Press Release: Blacknight Declare It is Time for Carlow Businesses to Get Online

By on September 14, 2012 in Events

September 14, 2012 – Carlow, Ireland – Getting Irish Business Online is coming to Carlow to help local businesses get set up online. The results of the getting business online program are in and Google has declared Carlow the third most successful Irish county in harnessing the Internet for economic growth. To determine Carlow’s position [...]

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