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Top 5 Irish hosting providers market share July 2012

Press Release: Blacknight Sets Benchmark for Irish Hosting

By on July 16, 2012 in Blacknight, Domains, Hosting, Infographic, Marketing, Press Releases

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

By on February 8, 2012 in Hosting, Marketing, Press Releases

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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Netvisionary 2010 Shortlisted

Like What We Do? Give Us A Vote!

By on April 12, 2010 in Events, Marketing

Earlier today we learned that we had been shortlisted for the Irish Internet Association’s Net Visionary Awards. This time round we’re shortlisted under the category: Best Use of Social Media If you’ve got a couple of minutes to spare please give us your vote! It’s also great to see so many of our clients and [...]

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Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards – Nominations Open

By on February 17, 2010 in Events

Nominations are now open for the 2010 IIA NetVisionary Awards. Unlike a LOT of awards the NetVisionary Awards are NOT “pay to play”. Anyone can nominate anybody they think is deserving and then the public ultimately decides. Categories available include: Best Business BloggerBest Business PodcasterBest Online Financial ServiceBest Online TraderBest Use of Social Mediae-Government AwardInnovation [...]

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Irish Blog Awards – Nominate Your Favourite Blogs Today

By on February 5, 2010 in Blogging, Events

It’s funny how quickly time seems to pass… The nominations for the 2010 Irish Blog Awards close today at 3pm, so if you haven’t submitted your favourite Irish blogs then you need to get submitting now! The Irish Blog Awards will be held this year in Galway on March 27th. It’s nice to see events [...]

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An Overview of IE Domain Registration

By on September 21, 2009 in cctlds, Domains, iedr

Since we get asked about this so much I thought it would be worth our while doing a short overview So here it is: If you have any questions about IE registrations that aren’t covered let us know so I cover them in a future screencast.

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Pix.ie – Not Just Another Photosharing Site

By on July 29, 2008 in Marketing, Tips

Irish technology blogger Damien Mulley has organised an interesting initiative called the Tuesday Push. The idea being to put the spotlight on cool startups and services in a co-ordinated fashion. This week’s “target” is photo sharing site Pix.ie which just happens to be a client of ours. So what do they do exactly? In their [...]

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Irish Communications Regulator Seeking Feedback on dotIE

By on July 2, 2008 in Domains, iedr

The Irish communications regulator, Comreg, has opened a public consultation period about dotIE (.ie), which I mentioned last week. This follows on from a study conducted by Comreg into stakeholder attitudes towards the IE namespace and the current registry operator, IEDR. We get a lot of people complaining to us about the IE domain registration [...]

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IE Zone Reloads More Frequent

By on May 9, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, iedr, irishblogs, News, Tips

I’m delighted to announce that the IE zone rebuilds are now more frequent. The new zone rebuild times are: 10:00, 12:00, 17:00 and 22:00 AND it is set to rebuild 7 days a week, 365 days a year! This is a major improvement for IE domain holders, as now updates, changes and new registrations will [...]

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Enum User Day – November 28 2007

By on November 6, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, enum, Events

IENUM Ltd, which runs Enum in Ireland, is organising a “user day” at the end of this month. Although we don’t have the details as yet I thought I’d give people plenty of advance warning. Enum is one of those technologies that *might* become important in the next couple of years, though it might not. [...]

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Personal IE Domains Go Live Tomorrow

By on October 30, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, iedr, irishblogs, News

Tomorrow morning personal IE domains will be made available for the first time. We’ve been accepting registration requests for the last few weeks, so tomorrow morning at zero hour we will be submitting the queued requests to the IE Domain Registry. If you haven’t ordered a personal IE domain then you still have time, though [...]

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Podcamp Kilkenny This Saturday

By on September 27, 2007 in Blacknight, Events, irishblogs, Podcasting

Ireland’s first major podcasting event takes place this Saturday in the Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny. The event kicks off at 10am and promises to be an interesting day if the list of expected attendees is anything to go by. As it’s only “over the road” from us I plan on attending, as I’m still feeling guilty [...]

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