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A couple of us will be heading over to Brussels on Monday to attend both the CENTR Registrar Day and the CENTR Awards. CENTR is an interesting organisation, as it brings together most of the European domain registries under one roof. As a domain registrar we do business with a growing number of domain registries […]
Yesterday we announced that we will be promoting the .BLOG domain at TBEX Europe next week in Killarney. Of course we support hundreds of Top-Level Domains (TLDs), and they all go great with our hosting and other products. There’s more choice than ever before, and that’s a good thing. For bloggers, we think .BLOG offers […]
Our internal development team have been working on a new shopping experience for both new and existing clients for quite some time. Over the past couple of months we’ve been testing it extensively and hopefully we’ve ironed out most of the bugs. If you’re an existing client and want to buy new products or services […]
Blacknight is a 100% Irish owned company. We have clients in over 130 countries around the globe, but we’re also very much based in Carlow in the South East of Ireland. Carlow may not be a very large town, but it’s home to a growing number of interesting companies (apart from ourselves!). And no, […]
We’ve got a busy month of events coming up at Blacknight, starting with TBEX Europe 2017, in Killarney, Co Kerry, for which we are a sponsor. It’s appropriate that an international conference on travel and tourism is being held in Killarney. Nowadays, Ireland’s tourist industry is well developed, and the success of campaigns such as […]
There are just 3 more days left for the public to make submissions in the IE Domain Registry’s (IEDR) public consultation on the proposed changes to the rules for registering domain names in .IE, the country-code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) for Ireland. Blacknight joins other registrars and stakeholders in the Irish internet industry, and the board […]
Ireland’s telecommunications use is changing. In the last 12 months there has been a decline in voice communications, both fixed and mobile, while data usage, again both fixed and in particular mobile, is increasing, according to the latest Quarterly Report on the Electronic Communications from the Commission for Communications Regulation. For Irish business this means […]
The Chief Executive of IE Domain Registry (IEDR), David Curtin, has said that the .IE domain will remain protected against fraud and abuse, in the event of the registry’s adoption of proposals which would see a liberalisation of the current rules. Under the current rules, to register a .IE domain name, an individual or business […]
As the programme for the Blacknight-sponsored IndieCork Film Festival 2017 goes to print, we reveal some of the highlights of next month’s festival, in a podcast interview with Úna Feely of the organising committee. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 11:56; 7MB; MP3. “It’s very much a festival about […]
We’ve been offering “whois privacy” with .com and .net domain names for several years. We have now extended the service to include several other domain name extensions, which means you can now get it with the following domain names: .biz domains .buzz domains .com domains .org domains .co domains .mobi domains .net domains .space domains […]
Choosing a domain name for your business, or even your personal hobby, is important. Once chosen and implemented it’s often a costly exercise to change. It takes time to deal with the technical issues involved and it can even cost in lower search engine rankings and lost business. It has been considered that a shorter […]