ICANN Panama Will be all About GDPR and Data Addiction
The 62nd ICANN public meeting will be starting this weekend. The location? Panama City, Panama. I’ll be there both representing Blacknight, as well as in my role as Chair of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, as well as an elected representative of the Registrar Stakeholder Group to the GNSO Council. Translation? I’ll be wearing more than […]
Current Whois Data vs Historic Whois Data Published via 3rd Parties
We often get contacted by clients who have questions and queries about whois data or domain name registration data. People get understandably upset when the information they’ve provided in good faith to simply register a domain name, is abused by unscrupulous marketers to try and sell them products and services they’ve never expressed any interest […]
What’s Going on With the Belgian Domain Market?
Here at Blacknight we are directly accredited to offer a lot of domain name extensions, both country code names, as well as generic ones. We work closely with a lot of the domain name registries to offer our clients a broad range of choices when it comes to setting up their “online home”. Some domain […]
Get a Free .EU Domain Name* when you Buy Hosting or BaseKit!
We’ve recently added .EU domain names, to our free domain bundle package. Want a .EU domain name? You can have it free for the first year, if you buy a 12 or 36-month web hosting or BaseKit siteBuilder plan together with it*! Why choose .EU? Well, if European identity is part of your brand or marketing, then […]
Increasing Transparency
I’ve always been a strong believer in being honest and transparent with our clients. Lying to them or misleading them, be that in our communications or our marketing, in my mind was never going to be a winning strategy. As a company this is an ethos we’ve tried to instil with all our staff and […]
Have you Heard our Ad on RTÉ Radio 1?
We’ve been advertising on RTÉ Radio 1 for a few weeks now, on primetime programmes like Morning Ireland and Drivetime. If you haven’t heard it, click here for a listen! The message is simple, designed to make the most of 20 seconds of airtime. In a nutshell: “Customers place more trust in businesses that […]
Podcast: Giant Gramophone Comes to Town! [Audio]
Donnacha Cahill is our guest on today’s podcast. He’s the artist behind The Gramophone, a sculpture which will feature next week at the Carlow Arts Festival. The installation is sponsored by Blacknight. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 16:03; 9MB; MP3. Made from mild steel and resonating with […]
Another Blacknight Bank Holiday Blog Post!
Monday 4 June is a public holiday in Ireland. Support will be available by email and live chat from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Monday. Telephone service will be provided for support, accounts and sales from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. The usual on-call support will be available to colocation and dedicated server customers. Online domain sales […]
Seriously? .UK Domain Names for a Euro?
We don’t mind saying it: we’re pretty bummed about Brexit. You might say it’s none of our business, because we’re Irish, and that’s true in a way – except it actually IS about our business. We do business in Britain, and in Northern Ireland (and over 130 countries as well!) We fully intend to continue […]
Just in Case you Missed the Hundreds of Emails – GDPR is Here!
At midnight last night Brussels time, 11pm Irish time, the General Data Protection Regulation came into force. However for the last few days our inboxes have been literally swamped with emails from hundreds of websites, services and random people begging us all to “opt in” to their emails and other communications. Here at Blacknight we’ve […]
15 Years On: How WordPress Won the Web
From Belfast comes the news that WordCamp has sold out*! As a sponsors, we’re delighted, and we’re looking forward to taking part in the event over the weekend. (*There is a handful of places still available at the free Contributor Event on Friday afternoon). As Abha Thakor explained in our podcast earlier this week, WordCamp […]
Some Changes for GDPR Compliance
GDPR comes into force this Friday, so it’s time for us to give another small update on what we’ve been doing. TLDR version? All our policies can be found here. We’ve always tried to be transparent about what we do and why we do it, so, in many respects, GDPR doesn’t really change that, but […]