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While we might be a 100% Irish owned company (and proud of it!) we have clients in over 120 countries worldwide. For many of our clients English is not their first language and we want to be able to serve them better. So with that in mind we’re looking for multi-lingual staff to join our […]
What’s happening?? When is it happening? Tuesday the 26th February 2013 we’re going to be upgrading our Control Panel. It’s going to be happening at 3am to minimise the impact on our customers. During this time the Control Panel is going to be unavailable at various times. We’ll be updating our Status Blog with complete […]
We’ve been working on a bunch of projects internally for the last few months. Some of them aren’t ever going to be “visible”, but some, like this one, will be. WhoOwns.it is a new domain lookup and search service that we’re announcing today. It’s still being tweaked and improved, so you’ll see more features being […]
I mentioned the Declaration of Internet Freedom over on Technology.ie recently. We signed it as soon as I was made aware of the declaration, but there was a bit of a backlog in the organisers processing signatures. We issued the press release below today on our signing of the declaration and our rationale for doing […]
As dragons go Bert is very sociable. Of course being such a well known social media icon and hosting and domain name figure he’s been getting a lot of attention from all over the place. (Personally we think Squishy‘s just a tad jealous!) So sometimes Bert likes to have a bit of personal time and […]
The IIA (Irish Internet Association) Net Visionary Awards are in their 14th year and, as has happened in the past, the categories have been updated to reflect the times. This year’s ceremony will take place on September 28 in the National Gallery of Ireland, which is centrally located in Dublin. Nominations are now open and […]
Bert and the entire Blacknight team are delighted that we’ve made it into the finals for the Social Media Awards. The list of finalists was announced last night and we’re really honoured to have made it this far. Best of luck to everyone! Here’s our press release on the announcement that’s going out this afternoon: […]
Our latest press release went out this morning. Full text below: Blacknight Announce Available Positions In Carlow Office Irish registrar and hosting company continues to grow despite economic downturn Blacknight is growing despite one of the toughest economic downturns on record. At a time when many companies are laying off staff and shuttering offices, […]
The last couple of days have been very “interesting”. As I mentioned previously, the Irish government intends to enact legislation that could have a “chilling effect”. I went into this a bit in my previous post and far more eloquent people have written extensively about the entire subject. My key issues with the legislation can […]
I posted about our thoughts on SOPA and why we were opposed to it over Christmas. In the last week or so the US government has backpedalled to a certain degree in respect of the tabled SOPA legislation, but they still want something. Whether it’s “a” SOPA, PIPA or something else is you can be […]
Happy New Year! 2012 should be an interesting year and hopefully it will be a good year for all of us. So what’s coming up in 2012? Well the VAT rate in Ireland has gone up as of midnight last night, which puts a bit of a downer on the start of a new year.. […]
We’re rolling out a number of upgrades to our cloud hosting platform today. The first that we’re happy to announce is the availablilty of CloudLinux. CloudLinux is a commercial Linux OS that is designed specifically for hosting and offers much better reliability and stability than other Linux distributions. As a special offer monthly cloud hosting […]