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The Shiny New Blacknight Control Panel

By on March 7, 2013 in General

Well it’s a bit over a week on from our upgrade of the Control Panel and we’re rather happy with how things worked out. We’ve been listening to feedback on twitter / facebook on the blog about it all and it has been mostly positive with one or two questions as to why the display [...]

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EU Cookie Law Presentation Slides

By on December 3, 2012 in Events, Marketing

I gave a presentation earlier today at the Irish Computer Society on the EU Cookie Law – or Statutory Instrument Number 336 of 2011 European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services)(Privacy and Electronic Communications) Regulations 2011 if you want its real title. I’m not a lawyer, so I was looking at the more practical implications [...]

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Security Issues

By on February 2, 2012 in security

Normally we blog about pretty much all news we have – both good news and bad news. This morning, however, we felt it prudent to take a slightly different route and emailed our clients directly before publishing anything anywhere else. As has been covered in the media today we had a security issue which led [...]

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Stopping Badware

By on August 22, 2011 in Hosting, network, policy, security

I’ve always been a strong believer that good behaviour and a clean internet would lead to a better experience for everyone. There is a lot of nasty stuff out there and we’ve always tried to do what we can to stop it from affecting our clients. Unfortunately “network abuse” is not “sexy” or exciting and [...]

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Blacknight Warn Users to Mind Their Content Management Systems

By on August 4, 2011 in Press Releases, Programming, security, Tips

Cases of compromised website Content Management Systems (CMS) are on the rise and Blacknight would like to remind users to update their CMS and plugins regularly. There is nothing more Internet-embarrassing than losing control of your website and recent Content Management System breaches are a reminder of the importance of operating your online business in [...]

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Blacknight Solutions Warn of Domain Renewal Scams

By on April 26, 2011 in Domains, Press Releases, security, Tips

Carlow, April 26th Domain space innovators Blacknight Solutions are striving to make the public aware of Domain Renewal Scams. When the time comes to renew a domain name, registrants receive renewal notices via email from their registrar. However, an overwhelming number of domain registrants are receiving renewal requests via postal mail and email from entities [...]

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PCI Compliance – What’s That?

By on April 18, 2011 in business, ecommerce, Tips

This is a guest blog post from Gary Conroy in Realex Payments. We continue to get a lot of queries about PCI.  Below are our answers to some of the questions we have been asked… What is PCI-DSS? The Data Security Standard is a minimum set of requirements put in place in order to protect [...]

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Remember To Take Care Of Your Domains

By on March 29, 2011 in Blacknight, business, Domains, Press Releases

This is a press release that we put out this afternoonCarlow, March 29 2011 Carlow based domain registrar Blacknight Solutions would like to remind you to care for your domain names. Many businesses do not give their domain names (and related services) enough importance and attention is only paid to the domain when a serious [...]

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Stop Stealing Images – Get Free Stock Photo Credits

By on November 29, 2009 in Marketing, Promotions, Tips

Just because it’s on the internet does not mean it’s free. You may be able to access plenty of content online at no cost, but that does not give you any right to (ab)use it as you see fit. Unfortunately when it comes to images a lot of people seem to think that you can [...]

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Is Your PC Safe?

By on July 13, 2009 in security

As a registrar and hosting provider we normally don’t talk much about PCs. Why would we? Unfortunately there are times when it is necessary. The desktop computer has almost become as ubiquitous as the internal combustion engine in many respects. Nobody would try to run an office without a computer these days. But unfortunately we, [...]

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Phishing Attacks and Domains

By on November 25, 2008 in Domains, security

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) have published their report covering the first half of 2008. The report is quite detailed, but some of the major points may be garnered from the first page introduction: Our major findings are: 1. Phishers continue to target specific Top-Level Domains (TLDs) and specific domain name registrars, and shift their [...]

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Phishers Targetting Domain Owners

By on November 8, 2008 in Domains, security, Tips

I mentioned that phishers were targetting eNom quite recently, but it seems that eNom was not alone. We’ve also been informed that some of the other registrars, including Network Solutions, are being targetted. If you get a suspicious email purporting to be from your domain registrar please let us know. Take a few simple precautions. [...]

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