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This Monday the 4th of May is a bank holiday in Ireland. As a result of this we will be on reduced opening hours. Our Billing, Support, and Sales teams will be available for any live chats, emails, phone, and ticket support requests between 12pm and 4pm on the 4th. As always our engineers will […]
We all have different factors that motivate us. Some people use a diary and keep track of their goals that way. Some use Runkeeper, Runtastic or one of the various other fitness apps. Some use their blog. Is it time for you to get .fit? .Fit has gone into General Availability today and there’s never […]
Last Saturday night the inaugural Blacknight SME Awards were held in Cork – my hometown. (I’ll be posting more about the night and sharing some photos we took later) With over 100 representatives from Irish SMEs in attendance the event was a great success and the stories behind the winners made the entire event that […]
Saturday last saw myself and colleague Justyna attend the inaugural Irish Parenting Blog Awards in our capital city, Dublin. A night of networking, trending, (the #IPBAWARDS were trending on Twitter!) and excitement was had by all. It was a testament to the organizers how professionally the awards ceremony were run, and of course Blacknight were proud […]
You may have heard we’re the headline sponsor for this years SME Awards which is taking place tomorrow in Cork. We’re excited and we’ve been working hard on getting everything ready along with the SME Awards team. We’ll have a stand outside the room if anyone would like to come by for a chat. There […]
Here at Blacknight we like to think we’re open minded. We’re also proud to be an Irish owned and operated company. We’re proud to be Irish and we’re also proud that we have a constitution that requires people to vote on change. It’s not simply being left up to a bunch of politicians to make […]
The IEDR, the people who run .ie, have just launched this year’s Optimise “fund”. (Calling it a “fund” is a bit misleading, as they’re not actually awarding money to anyone, but are instead giving a number of small Irish businesses assistance to develop and improve their online presence). If you think you might qualify you […]
I’m delighted and honoured to be speaking and moderating at Domaining Europe later this week in Valencia, Spain. This year’s event will see over 100 attendees from Europe and beyond coming together in Valencia to swap experiences about the domain name industry in 2015. Topics being covered this year range from marketing, legal issues to […]
So you’ve started your new business. You’ve got yourself a nice little website. You’ve got a domain name that you’re happy with. And your customers are able to email you via your business’ email address. You’re happy. Things are going well. Sure, being a small business owner is tough going. Getting new customers is a […]
There is no doubt about it, bloggers in Ireland are fast becoming one of the most influential groups when it comes to consumer purchasing decisions. So when Blacknight were offered the chance to sponsor the Most Beautiful Blog Award at the upcoming inaugural Irish Parenting Blogs Awards we were happy to get on board. […]
Marketing and promoting domain names can be a bit of a challenge. How do you get people “excited” about a domain name? How can you get people to “engage” with your company via social media? How can you convert any of that excitement and engagement into actual sales? I’m not 100% sure we have the […]
We’ve been posting sporadically about various new domain extensions over the last year and we currently offer a very large (and growing) selection. While I’d love to say that we love all domain extensions equally, I’d be lying. Some domain extensions really resonated with us, while others simply didn’t. We love .ninja as a domain […]