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When you don’t have a massive marketing budget you need to be careful how you spend what you have and try to find alternate methods to promote your business. Promoting your business shouldn’t be just about the sale. Of course you need to make sales, but there are better ways to interact with people than […]
I’m at TRAFFIC Dublin for the next couple of days. It’s nice to not have to get a plane to attend a domain industry event! The schedule for the two days is interesting but, in common with most industry events, the real work and interest is in what goes on in the corridors. Dublin’s Shelbourne […]
We are now offering Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on our Linux VPS servers. Ubuntu 10.04 is an LTS (long term support) release, which means that there will be security updates made available for a longer period of time than you would get with a non-LTS version. You can read more about how Ubuntu handles release […]
We are always working on adding new products and services to our portfolio, so I am delighted to announce the addition of 5 new domain name extensions. We are now offering domain registrations in Antigua (.ag), Honduras (.hn), Saint Lucia (.lc), Mongolia (.mn) and Saint Vincent and Grenadines. All of the domain extensions are available […]
Got a website? Think it’s cool? Want fame and glory? Then maybe the Irish Web Awards sponsored by Realex Payments are for you. They’ve just opened the nominations this morning and it won’t cost you anything but a couple of minutes of your time to nominate a site. Just don’t spam them! There’s plenty of […]
The TRAFFIC conference is being held in central Dublin later this month (August 24th – 25th) They’ve chosen the Shelbourne, which is possibly the most centrally located hotel in Ireland’s capital! TRAFFIC is one of the top events in the world for the domain industry and brings together domain name industry experts from the four […]
If you are an existing Blacknight client you may be aware of the pending upgrade that will be carried out early next week (see our status site for more details). In simple terms, there is a major hosting upgrade going in next Monday morning (hopefully before most people are in their offices). A lot of […]
One of the things we’re working on all the time is adding more services. So when the opportunity presented itself to offer a “new” domain extension to our clients we jumped at it! We are now offering .gl domain name registration What is .gl? .gl is the country code domain extension for Greenland. Are there […]
KLCK Bloggers’ Network is aimed at bloggers in the Kildare, Laois, Carlow and Kilkenny region of Ireland. This Monday, August 9th at 7pm they are holding an event in the Talbot Hotel, Carlow. There will be two presentations, the first on Flick for business by Paula Sheridan of Candle Designs and the second on setting […]
Nominet, the registry operator for co.uk, is running a promotion from now until September 27th 2010. If you register a co.uk domain between now and September 27th you can enter a draw for daily prizes of iTunes vouchers, as well as weekly prizes of iPads. NB: The draw is open to UK residents only – […]