Verisign, the company that manages the .com registry, will be increasing the price of .com domains by 7% again this year. The price increase affects all registrars. We’ll be keeping an eye on how pricing develops and if this involves any change to our own pricing we will let you know.
Archive | March, 2008
Data Centre Porn – Well Almost!
If data centres and secure hosting environments make you yawn then this post might be best avoided. We all know that you want your hosting to “just work”, so you really don’t need to know about the “inner works”. I don’t blame you. Personally I find data centres to be incredibly boring places. They’re not […]
VOIP Security
The guys in Enum 353 are running a session this Friday on VOIP security which might be of interest to some people: Venue: Morrison Hotel, Ormond Quay, Dublin 1 Date: Friday 28th March 2008 Time: 9.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. (lunch included) There will be no charge to attend the session. Overview: This workshop will […]
Blacknight Technical Blog Now Live
If you want to know about any service affecting maintenance, technical updates or anything else of a technical nature, we recommend that you check out our new Technical Blog. The site is hosted outside our core network (we don’t even use our own nameservers just to be 100% safe!) and is part of our backup […]
Hatching New Business Offerings For Spring
Well it’s that Easter thing again. Friday isn’t a “real” holiday, so our offices are open pretty much all day today. Monday is a bank holiday in most EU countries, so we’ll be operating on reduced staff numbers. But Tuesday we’re back in force. So what’s with the image? Well I was looking for something […]
Blacknight On WebmasterRadio.fm
Journalists call from time to time asking me to talk about various internet related topics. Most of the time the publications or shows are “general interest”, so you can only talk about very general things. Last night, however, was quite different, as I was one of the guests on “Domain Masters” which is broadcast and […]
Emergency Outage Notification shared server Bors
When: Tonight Tue March 18th @ 21:00 hours What: Disk replacement in shared server bors.blacknight.ie, the spare in the Raid 1 mirror failed last night so we’re going to swap it out tonight. This machine does not have hot swap drives so we need to take it down for the change over. This will take […]
St Patrick’s Day – No Rest For The Wicked
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Up until now I’ve been doing an obligatory “we’re closed” post for the annual Patrick’s day weekend. This year things are a little different. Although you may not be able to get through on our phone lines we managed to bribe and cajole a few members of our staff to give […]
Heads Up! Blacknight Billing Move Coming Soon
If you’re not an existing Blacknight client this post isn’t going to be that interesting or relevant to you, so you might want to move along… The short version of this post: We’ll be emailing you to get you to choose a new username for the new control panel and billing system. The email will […]
It’s Nice To Say Thanks
Most days our post is boring. There are invoices and other stuff for our accounts team. There might be the odd payment from clients who still pay us by cheque or maybe even a copy of a magazine. It’s nice to get a “thank you” letter from time to time and it really does make […]
Creative Camp Kilkenny Followup
Last Saturday Creative Camp was held in Kilkenny Castle. I’ve been to some nice venues over the last couple of years (I used to live in a really nice one in a previous life!) and Kilkenny Castle definitely gives them a run for their money. Although the castle is in the middle of Kilkenny once […]
INEX connectivity Upgrade
When: INEX LAN#1 connection being upgraded @ 23:00 on Monday 10th of March. What: We currently have 2 x 100M connections to INEX. Our LAN#1 connection carriers a lot of our INEX traffic and as such we’re upgrading it to 1000M to prevent it being a bottle neck for traffic originated in Ireland. This is […]