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What’s happening?? When is it happening? Tuesday the 26th February 2013 we’re going to be upgrading our Control Panel. It’s going to be happening at 3am to minimise the impact on our customers. During this time the Control Panel is going to be unavailable at various times. We’ll be updating our Status Blog with complete […]
Are you a “Web Monkey”? Able to hold your own with the likes of WordPress or Joomla or hell it doesn’t really matter which CMS it is you’ll deal with it? Are you a self starter? It needs to get done and you’ll figure it out. Tinkered with PHP / ASP.NET / Ruby / Perl […]
This week we’ve seen the news that Posterous is closing down towards the end of April. The old saying “if you’re not paying for a product then you are the product” seems to ring true once again. It goes to show that if you plan on setting up a home on the web it really […]
We’ve posted about “closed generics” a few times in the past. What are they? Basically they’re applications for new tlds that have two characteristics: the string (the bit on the right of the dot) is very generic the applicant has stated that they don’t plan on allowing the public to register domains using the extension […]
We are hiring again. (I love being able to say that!) This time round we’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer with experience and knowledge of both Windows and Linux. What kind of things would you be doing? As part of our engineering team you’d be working on both maintaining thousands of servers (both virtual […]
Roses are red, Violets are blue, We love domains, We hope you do too! We wouldn’t be Blacknight if we didn’t try and do things our way. We announced last week that if you bought a .me or .co domain not only would you be getting them at a great discount but we’d be sending […]
February 11, 2013 – Carlow, Ireland- This Valentine’s Day, Blacknight poses the question “is there anything more romantic than domain names?” They don’t think so, and to help customers get in the mood for love, Blacknight is kicking off the big day with discounts on .ME and .CO domains. Blacknight has created Bemyvalentine.me (http://bemyvalentine.me/), a […]
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 […]
We’ve been running a competition to win a Kindle Paperwhite for the last few weeks and we’re pleased to say we’re finally announcing the winner. Keith from Kildare has been contacted already and the below should be winging it’s way to him shortly. Even if you didn’t win you can still be a winner with […]