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UPDATE: 29/03/2018 9:30am. IEDR has announced that it will have staff at work on Friday 30 March, in order to deal with the current high volume of demand for IE domain names. We at Blacknight would like to wish all our customers and friends a Happy Easter! Our offices will be open as normal on Friday […]
Did you know that you don’t have to be a web developer to make a website? Sure, lots of our customers use professional designers to build their sites, which we host, but for some people that’s just not an option. Maybe you’re just starting out; maybe it’s a short-term project – or an experiment on […]
At Blacknight, we always encourage SMEs to have an online presence. Not only do we think its really important, we have the data to back it up! Research carried out earlier this year (by Ignite Research, on behalf of the IEDR) shows just how important it is for Irish businesses to be online. Here is […]
We at Blacknight would like to wish all our customers and friends a Happy Easter! Our offices will be open as normal on Friday 14 April. Monday 17 April is a public holiday in Ireland. Our offices will be closed; however a limited sales and helpdesk service will be available, with live chat and telephone service from […]
Today we held the Annual Great Blacknight Bake-Off. This year the theme of the Bake-Off was ‘Blacknight‘. Lots of our staff got creative in the kitchen – and all for a good cause. The winner of the Bake-Off got to donate all the money raised to a charity of their choice. The Winning […]
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. […]
It’s the weekend – and time for another Blacknight giveaway. We’re sponsoring the Festival Centre at this year’s IndieCork Festival of Film and Media Art – and we’ve got two golden tickets to give away! These are season tickets, worth €70 each, granting admission to all screenings. Terms and conditions apply. Once again, it’s a social media […]
We’re delighted to announce that Blacknight will be a major sponsor of the IndieCork Festival, Cork’s festival of independent film and music in October. This year, for the first time, IndieCork will have a Festival Centre: The Blacknight Festival Centre located at the Kino Cinema on Washington St. Long known as the original arthouse cinema in Cork, the […]
UPDATE: Tickets competition extended to Friday 2 September! TheOuting.LGBT is more than just clever use of a new Top Level Domain – it’s a brilliant idea to celebrate the positive, forward-looking Ireland we in Blacknight are proud to be a part of. As festival organiser Eddie McGuinness describes it: “it’s a new twist on an old tradition”. Historically, people […]
Michele, our CEO, has posted about the launch of the new .BLOG domain, which has just entered its sunrise phase. Trademark owners can apply for their domains from now until October 17, and we are also taking pre-registration applications for the later Landrush and General Availability phases. Meanwhile, our company blog has a new home, at Blacknight.blog. In many ways, […]
Our video booth at The Blacknight SME Awards was huge fun. We’ve already shared our conversations with the winners in the retail categories; now all the winners videos are online – all captured in the minutes after they came off stage, clutching their trophies. But while there could be only one winner of each category, the real […]
If you’ve been on Dublin’s streets in the past week, you may be feeling more aesthetically stimulated than usual. It could be the stretch in the evenings, or it might be OFFSITE, the mini design festival which has been running since March 30th, aimed at taking design out of the studio and into the streets. OFFSITE is an offshoot (so to speak) from […]