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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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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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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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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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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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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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Happ Katie, Happy Blacknight

Happy Friday, Happy Katie, Happy Ireland, Happy Blacknight

By on August 10, 2012 in .co, Competitions, Events, humour, Social Media

Well it’s Friday so I think that immediately puts most people in a good mood. Couple that with the amazing win by Katie Taylor yesterday and you can’t help but feel proud to be Irish. So we’ve gone and done things the Blacknight way and want to say a huge congratulations to her and let’s [...]

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Meet The Blacknight Twitter Team

Meet the Blacknight Twitter team

By on July 17, 2012 in Social Media

  Hot on the heels of yesterdays announcement http://blog.blacknight.com/press-release-blacknight-sets-benchmark-for-irish-hosting.html we decided to have a bit of fun and well it has been a while since we last did a “meet the team” style post so why not try to inject a bit of humour into things on this Tuesday morning. We’ve been incredibly busy the [...]

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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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Even Dragons Like Social Media

By on April 6, 2012 in Events, Marketing, Social Media

The Social Media Awards are in their second year (run by Mulley Communications). Last night the entries list was published and boy is it a long list! It’s so long that Damien and his team have had to split it up into sections: Social Media Effectiveness, Integrated, Social Media for Elections PR, State Body, Mobile [...]

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8 bit Google Maps showing our offices

Remember Low Resolution Graphics?

By on April 1, 2012 in General

Today is April Fool’s Day, so a lot of people and companies are playing silly tricks on people. Google Maps currently has an option labelled “Quest” which displays maps using 8 bit graphics. It reminds me of when I first started using computers back in the 1980s. Computers were a lot less powerful – my [...]

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