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Save Big On US Domains With Hosting

We’re announcing a nice discount deal on .us domain names. If you register a .us domain name and get an annual website hosting plan at the same time you’ll get the .us domain name for only EUR5.99 (ex-VAT) for the first year. You can read a bit more about .us domain names and why we [...]

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Roses Are Red

Our super valentines day offer (now with added dragons + badges)

Valentines Day is a day for sharing and appreciation of each other. At Blacknight we love to give back to our customers, so for this week, anyone who purchases a .me or .co domain gets one of these really cool badges from Spike Badges. The .me extension is perfect for personal and memorable occasions as [...]

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Why choose Blacknight

People often ask us why they should choose us as a hosting company. Hosting is hosting,  right ? Wrong. Hosting and domain name services are critical to the availability of your website. If something  impacts either of these, your website will not be available for people to visit. With business relying more and more on [...]

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Free yourself - don't be a digital prisoner

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 [...]

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Top 5 Irish hosting providers market share July 2012

Press Release: Blacknight Sets Benchmark for Irish Hosting

We all like hitting milestones, so when I learnt that the most recent Hosterstats report had to say about our recent growth I was delighted. Not only are we continuing to grow, but we’ve become the first Irish hosting provider to break the 100k site hosted mark. Not only that, but we now host more [...]

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

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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Stop SOPA Ireland

Say No To An Irish SOPA Style Law Say Yes To Democracy

Remember SOPA? We didn’t like it and it was pretty clear that a lot of internet users weren’t too happy about it either. However SOPA was being debated openly in Congress. There was discussion. There were public hearings. There was also a massive backlash of public opinion, but that is one of the beauties of [...]

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Save Money on Hosting and domains

January Blues Getting You Down? Save Big In Our Mega Hosting and Domain Name Sale!

Today’s the first day back at work in 2012 for most people. We know that a lot of people find January to be a tough month … but every cloud has a silver lining .. January is sale time! Here at Blacknight we like bringing you discounts whenever and whereever we can. This January’s sale, [...]

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Happy New Year 2012 from Blacknight

Happy New Year 2012

Happy New Year! 2012 should be an interesting year and hopefully it will be a good year for all of us. So what’s coming up in 2012? Well the VAT rate in Ireland has gone up as of midnight last night, which puts a bit of a downer on the start of a new year.. [...]

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Cloud Hosting Fluffy Friday Promo

Black Friday Cloud Hosting Discount Offer

Black Friday might have been a US “thing”, but we thought we’d join in too! We’re running a special discount offer on our new cloud hosting plans from today until Sunday night. Use the coupon code: fluffyfriday (no quotes, lowercase, no spaces)and get a 20% discount off your first order of cloud hosting. With our [...]

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Welcome to the Blacknight Cloud

No Fluff Cloud Hosting Is Here

Over the last few months our technical team have been working on a number of new services. The first one to “go live” is our new cloud hosting solution – which is aimed at replacing our existing VPS services. We’ve never been into “buzzwords” and we don’t like “jumping on bandwagons”, so we’ve taken our [...]

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Webfest.me Videos

Webfest, which was held last week in Budva, Montenegro, was streamed live.If you didn’t get to see it then you can still watch the sessions online as they were recorded.Here are the two I was involved with: On domains / hosting in general, with GoDaddy’s Yong Lee: Marketing on a shoestring budget: The slides I [...]

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