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I’ll be heading to Hyderabad, India on Tuesday for the ICANN meeting which is being held there. As usual the meeting will be very busy on the policy front, but I’ll also be meeting with several of our domain registry partners and others over the course of the 10 day trip. This is the first […]
Making Ireland Click is a new four-part television series aimed at promoting digital literacy in Ireland. Episode 1 will be broadcast on Monday 31 October at 7:30pm on RTÉ One. The show follows Oscar winner David Puttnam, who is Irelandʼs Digital Champion, as he travels around Ireland on a mission to get citizens connected. Each episode will examine a different […]
The Blacknight team had a weekend full of Fun, Love, Lols and ‘Craic’ in Lisdoonvarna at the 4th Annual LGBT Festival – The Outing. Our adventure began Friday afternoon when we left the sunny south east. Two ladies headed towards the west of Ireland with Google Maps by our side – what could go wrong? […]
As sponsors at this years IndieCork Film Festival, we’re giving a free website workshop at the Blacknight Festival Centre on Saturday at 2pm, titled: Building your Reputation Online – A Practical Guide. A workshop that will demonstrate how creative practitioners can look at making your own website, with a minimum of cost, and maximum of impact. Social networks […]
Ireland’s Internet Day is an initiative of the IE Domain Registry, aimed at encouraging online business in Ireland. As the website explains: The internet is evolving at a startling speed and creating some of the biggest businesses and wealthiest people in history. Internet technologies like e-commerce have the power to massively increase the presence of […]
On Sunday the Blacknight Festival Centre will open its doors to participants at IndieCork Festival, and it will remain open all week, each day from 12pm. At the Festival programme launch last week, we spoke to some of the filmmakers who will be showing their work at IndieCork, and we’ll bring you their stories over the next few days. John Mulvaney is the director […]
The Outing, the world’s first LGBT Matchmaking and Music Festival, gets underway tomorrow in Lisdoonvarna, County Clare – and Blacknight will be there as sponsors. And we’re bringing gifts – thanks to our friends in the .LGBT domain name registry! Look what just arrived from @dotLGBT ! Lip-balm! We're off to #Lisdoonvarna to pack the gift bags for […]
We’ve got more tickets to give away for the Blacknight-sponsored IndieCork Film Festival which starts on Sunday. This time we’ll draw two winners who will each get two season tickets admitting them to all the screenings (excluding the opening night, and the Film Feast which is sold separately). The full programme for IndieCork 2016 is now available. […]
At midnight last night a new era in the evolution of the Internet was ushered in. As of midnight EST the US government’s contract with ICANN has expired and the IANA transition is done. (Sure, there are still details that need to be finalised and ironed out, but the expiry of the contract is the […]