Why We Like to Get out and Talk to Real People [Video]
We like to get out of the data centre whenever possible and meet real people – it keeps us grounded! They don’t come more grounded than Gary McMahan, Colorado cowboy singer and champion yodeler. Gary and his friends are the subject of a feature-length documentary film by director Doug Morrione. Musicians, poets, and artists, they […]
Blacknight finds a Warm Welcome at TBEX in Killarney [Video]
Last week, Blacknight was an exhibitor at TBEX Europe – or #TBEXIreland, if you like, which was the hashtag of choice. Three of us attended from Blacknight, and we met hundreds of bloggers, experts, learners, travel-industry types – and lots of Kerry people who made us welcome. Back among my own people (i measc na […]
Wordcamp Dublin is All About Community [Audio]
This week’s Blacknight Podcast is all about WordCamp Dublin which is on this weekend in DCU Business School. Blacknight is a sponsor, so we invited three of the organisers to join us on the show. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 20:02; 12MB; MP3. Our guests are Colm Troy, […]
For the Love of Film
This week we’re involved with the Indie Cork festival in my native Cork. Conn will be giving a demo later this week on how you can get yourself up and running online in under 30 minutes. It’s free to attend so there’s no excuse not to! A lot of creators are online, but like so […]
Nurture Your Online Presence With a FREE .COM or .IE Domain Name*
Why do so many small businesses not have an online presence? Why do so many small businesses rely so heavily on social networks instead of their own websites? We’re not new to this space and have been providing website hosting, email and other services to small businesses for well over a decade. Back in 2011 […]
How Do You Make a Website in 20 Minutes? Come to our Free Demo at IndieCork!
On Saturday October 14, Blacknight will give a free demonstration in Cork, titled How to Make a Website in 20 Minutes. The event forms part of the IndieCork Film Festival, which Blacknight is sponsoring, and will take place at The Village Hall on St Patrick’s Quay, which is home to the Blacknight Festival Centre at IndieCork. […]
Heading to Brussels to Talk Domains and More
A couple of us will be heading over to Brussels on Monday to attend both the CENTR Registrar Day and the CENTR Awards. CENTR is an interesting organisation, as it brings together most of the European domain registries under one roof. As a domain registrar we do business with a growing number of domain registries […]
Free .BLOG Domains and Hosting for TBEX Delegates
Yesterday we announced that we will be promoting the .BLOG domain at TBEX Europe next week in Killarney. Of course we support hundreds of Top-Level Domains (TLDs), and they all go great with our hosting and other products. There’s more choice than ever before, and that’s a good thing. For bloggers, we think .BLOG offers a […]
Unveiling a New Buying Experience – Blacknight.market Gentle Launch
Our internal development team have been working on a new shopping experience for both new and existing clients for quite some time. Over the past couple of months we’ve been testing it extensively and hopefully we’ve ironed out most of the bugs. If you’re an existing client and want to buy new products or services […]
A Bit of Local Recognition – Blacknight Wins B2B Award From Carlow Chamber
Blacknight is a 100% Irish owned company. We have clients in over 130 countries around the globe, but we’re also very much based in Carlow in the South East of Ireland. Carlow may not be a very large town, but it’s home to a growing number of interesting companies (apart from ourselves!). And no, we […]
Travelling to TBEX Travel Blog Conference in Killarney, Ireland
We’ve got a busy month of events coming up at Blacknight, starting with TBEX Europe 2017, in Killarney, Co Kerry, for which we are a sponsor. It’s appropriate that an international conference on travel and tourism is being held in Killarney. Nowadays, Ireland’s tourist industry is well developed, and the success of campaigns such as […]
We Need to Liberalise the .IE Domain Rules – Here’s Why [Audio]
There are just 3 more days left for the public to make submissions in the IE Domain Registry’s (IEDR) public consultation on the proposed changes to the rules for registering domain names in .IE, the country-code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) for Ireland. Blacknight joins other registrars and stakeholders in the Irish internet industry, and the board […]