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Use Zemanta To Improve Your Blogging

By on January 22, 2012 in Blogging, Tips

Personally I love blogging. I write for the company blog on a regular basis, but I also write on several other blogs. However I’d be the first to admit that I am not afraid of taking advantage of whatever tools I can find to help speed up the process and improve it. Zemanta, in my [...]

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Getting A Domain Name That’s Already Registered

By on January 5, 2012 in Domains, Marketing, Seo, Tips

Choosing the right domain name for your business is, arguably, one of the most important decisions you will need to make. If your business domain name isn’t easy to remember or easy to spell, then you will lose traffic. If you lose traffic you lose sales.. no sales = no revenue etc., etc. Choosing a [...]

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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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WordPress 3.2 is here

By on July 5, 2011 in Blogging, Hosting, Tips

NOTE: This post applies to Shared Hosting Customers with self installs of WordPress NOT to Application Vault WordPress installs. So a lot of people will be waking up today and seeing that WordPress 3.2 is out.. I can hear you groaning “another upgrade?” Well as always when doing upgrades of software the first thing I’m [...]

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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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The Blacknight Link Roundup Week 1

By on April 18, 2011 in Tips

Every week I go through 10 .. 20 .. 100 links that I’d love to keep track of … a long time ago I stopped using bookmarks because … I’ve just got too many of them. I’ve used various tools like http://www.delicious.com/ and http://www.stumbleupon.com/ but you know what? … I keep on leaving tabs open [...]

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Cork Lifelong Learning Festival – Learn To Use Twitter

By on March 28, 2011 in Events, Tips

We are delighted to announce that we are sponsoring this year’s Lifelong Learning Festival in my native Cork. The Cork Lifelong Learning Festival is now in its eighth year and has been getting bigger and bigger every year. The event is also twinned with Belfast’s Feile An Phobail So what’s our involvement? Well we’re officially [...]

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SEO For Dummies

By on February 10, 2011 in business, howto, Marketing, Seo, Tips

Editor note: This is a guest post by Paul Savage of BlackDog (more info below article body). The purpose of this article is not to insult you by calling you a dummy for reading this, in fact I have no idea what your SEO acumen is, but hopefully after reading this you will have a [...]

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How To Upload Documents for a .ie domain registration request

By on September 5, 2010 in iedr, Tips, video

We have added a short  video that shows how to upload supporting documents for IE domain registration requests. It’s available  on our Youtube channel, Blip, iTunes and elsewhere Any feedback is welcome!

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How To Backup (and restore) Your .tel Data

By on May 2, 2010 in dottel, Tips, video

Click to Play If you are transferring your .tel domain name from one registrar to another you will need to make a backup of the domain data first. Once the domain has been transferred to the new registrar you will need to import the contact data into the new registrar’s “slice” on the telhosting platform

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Setting Up Awstats For Your Website On Blacknight

Awstats Now Available On Linux!

By on March 14, 2010 in Hosting, howto, Podcasting, Seo, Tips, video

Image by blacknight via Flickr We’re delighted to finally be able to offer Awstats statistics for all our shared Linux based hosting accounts (it’s also available for Windows). If your site is hosted on any of our shared Linux hosting accounts you can now setup Awstats via your control panel NB: Stats will not be [...]

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