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Reduced staff Friday the 12th of April 2013

By on April 10, 2013 in General

As a mark of respect to Mr Thomas Kelly (beloved father of Paul Kelly (Blacknight founder and CTO), the Blacknight offices will be closed Friday 12th April until 2:00 PM and will operate a reduced staff number on the sales / service desk for live-chats and email . The offices will re-open for normal business [...]

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The Easter 2013 opening hours ( also happy easter )

By on March 26, 2013 in Customer Service, General

Just to let  you folks know the opening hours for the Easter Bank Holiday Monday – 1st April 2013 (and no, it’s not an April Fool’s Day Joke!)   Our office is open as normal on Good Friday, the 29th of March. Our Billing, Support, and Sales teams will be available for any live chats, [...]

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we like stats

We like stats part II

By on March 14, 2013 in Domains, General, iedr, Promotions

It has been a while since we last posted any stats on the blog. So we’re at it again. The below are stats for the .ie ccTLD. (Hint: There are discounts to celebrate at the bottom) Just like the last time the graphs really do speak for themselves. First up it’s the number of new [...]

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Login to the Control Panel with your email account.

Giving your users more control of their email.

By on March 7, 2013 in General, Tips

Hot on the heels of “An introduction to the shiny new Blacknight control panel” post we’re giving you a post about empowering your users a small bit more. If you’re managing a number of email accounts you no doubt get requests along the lines of how do I add an auto responder for when I’m [...]

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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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Roses Are Red

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

By on February 6, 2013 in .co, .me, Blacknight, General, Promotions

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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Christmas 2011 opening hours

Christmas Opening Hours 2012

By on December 19, 2012 in General

While our servers might be working 24/7/365 our staff will be taking some time off over the Christmas holidays. So here are the opening hours for our offices over the Christmas break: Monday 24th December 2012 – 08:00 – 15:00 Tuesday 25th December 2012 – closed Wednesday 26th December 2012 – Sales and Accounts closed, [...]

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Blacknight sponsor ParkYa beta launch

By on December 17, 2012 in General

As keen supporters of start-ups, we were delighted to sponsor the recent ParkYa beta launch event in Dublin. ParkYa is an app that will help you find parking close by and to also pay for the parking spot. As everyone knows, finding parking in a city or unknown town is a real pain, so this app [...]

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IEDR Optimise 2012 Awards

By on December 12, 2012 in General

As the hosting providers for paradering.ie, a graduate of the IEDR’s Optimise 2012 initiative, we were delighted to attend the 2012 awards ceremony, hosted by the IEDR and attended by Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte, TD. Unfortunately Padraig O’ Sullivan from paradering.ie couldn’t be there but we will be delighted to forward him his certificate The fund, which [...]

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Happy Halloween!

By on October 31, 2012 in General

Happy Halloween to everyone! We’ve been having a lot of rather silly fun in the office today – our staff ran a “bake off”, while one of our sales team adorned the office in Halloween decorations..  

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Thanks for your Support

And the Social Media Awards winner of Blog of a Business goes to …

By on May 18, 2012 in General

You know it’s always nice when you’re ending the week on a high. This weekend we’re going in knowing that we’ve helped get 10,000 businesses online for free in Ireland, we’ve new staff starting, we’re continuing to expand and we’ve gone and won a Sockie not to mention we’ll be launching new products and services [...]

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I Love My Brics

I Love My BRICS

By on May 11, 2012 in General

In a rare occurrance yesterday Michele Neylon, Managing Director of Blacknight,  put on a suit. It wasn’t however for a funeral as one might expect when you’re dealing with Michele and suits. It was hopefully for the birth of something great. It was of course if you’ve been following any of our recent blog posts [...]

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