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Registrations of Ireland’s ccTLD grew 5% in 2016 outperforming the average for other ccTLDs which grew 3.1%. The Irish domain has shown strong growth, albeit from a lower base, and there are great opportunities for businesses and individuals to register their favourite .ie domain names as there were only 221,871 registered at the end of […]
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 […]
DNS. It’s not exciting or particularly interesting for most businesses. Yet you all use the DNS every single day when you browse the internet, send emails or use apps on your mobile phone or tablet. DNS is the internet’s address book system and when it’s working you shouldn’t care about it, but if there’s a […]
Over the past 13+ years we’ve always invested in improving the services we offer our clients. These days we are the market leader in Ireland, but we know that we have to keep working on improving our services to remain competitive. Over time things have changed. When we started out back in the late 90s […]
One of the things we have always taken seriously is our customers’ security and privacy. Neither are particularly “sexy” or “exciting” topics, but they’re vital. They’ve always been important, but over the past couple of years more and more of the mainstream media are talking about security and privacy – and rightly so. As you […]
Technology is a wonderful thing when it works. But unfortunately, no matter what you do things will go wrong from time to time. People delete files they shouldn’t, website updates go wrong. Basically Murphy’s Law is alive and well in the 21st century and if you don’t have proper backups of your website’s data, settings […]
Normally we don’t write about service issues on this site. We have a specific site we reserve solely for that. Yesterday, however, we had a major network and DNS outage that impacted a very large number of our customers. Our teams worked as quickly as they could to both respond to queries from our customers as […]
Our email only plans have arrived making it easier than ever to get your custom email address up and running within minutes. You have your own domain name now it’s time to put it to use. For €9.99 a year (less than a euro a month) we will give you access to our shiny new […]
We love the internet. We really do. But as we’ve touched on more than once in the past, there is an underside which is far from pleasant. And as a service provider we have no interest in enabling cybercrime or assisting actively (or passively) with serious crimes. However, we also are very conscious of the […]
Cloud. It’s been the buzzword du jour for a couple of years now. Everyone wants “cloud”, or so they’re led to believe. And there are a lot of different services out there that are marketed as cloud services. But what exactly is a cloud platform that you really want? How can you combine the technology […]
Paul and I will be attending the Odin Summit in Seattle next week. Odin is the new brand name for Parallels, which is the software platform we use to run most of our hosting operations. The event, which is held every year usually in a different location, is a good opportunity for us to get […]
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 […]