I originally started drafting this post on our second day back in the office, but we’ve been so busy that it’s only now that I’ve actually found the time to complete it. I guess that’s good complaint to have 
When I set up the first Blacknight website about 6 years ago I never thought we’d end up where we are now.
As I mentioned on my personal blog, we’re now ranked as the second largest hosting company in Ireland according to both webhosting.info and IpWalk.
It’s been a fascinating journey so far and we’re nowhere near the end yet. (Yes I know that early version of the website is horrendous!!)
With the New Year comes new staff and plans for the following twelve months…..
Our latest appointment is George Pratt, who previously worked for one of our competitors.
George joins us with about ten years of sales experience in the IT industry and will be heading up our sales team (business development if you like that kind of jargon!).
With George’s help we expect to roll out some new and exciting products and services over the next 12 months, so keep an eye out!
In the last quarter of 2006 we took on several new staff in accounts, technical support and programming.
By hiring our own programming staff we have been able to get quite a lot of backend work done including integration with the IEDR‘s new API system. The new API system allows us to send IE domain registration requests to the registry practically in realtime. While all registration requests still need to be manually checked and verified it reduces some of the workload for our staff. We intend to increase our integration with the IEDR and other registries over the coming months and will be working very closely with ModernGigabyte to this end.
In related news, we have recently acquired Noc Software and will be making a separate announcement about our plans for Noc Manager, which is an addon module for Modernbill.
We’ll shortly be announcing details of some of our New Year specials.. We know you’ll like them, but we have to make you wait a small bit longer
