Our Easter Working Arrangements
Happy Easter to all our customers and friends! Today, Good Friday, it’s business as usual here at Blacknight, and also IE Domain Registry. Monday is a public holiday in Ireland, and the following working arrangements are in place: Support will be available by email and live chat from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Monday. Telephone […]
How to Make A Website in 20 Minutes (with a Live Audience!)
I’ve been doing this presentation for a couple of years now: web design as a public performance! To be fair, web development isn’t the most entertaining thing to do on a stage, so we add a little element of risk to make it interesting. A challenge! Can I register a brand new domain name, develop […]
Secure Your Account With 2 Step Verification
We’re adding a new security feature to our systems this week which will make your account login more secure. What is it? We’re adding two step verification as an option for all user accounts. So to login you’ll need your username, your password AND the randomly generated code from your authenticator app. What does this […]
Minor Changes to our Login Process
We are currently working on making some changes to the login process for the main Blacknight control panel. At the moment the login screen looks like this: Current login screen I won’t bore you with the technical issues, but making any changes to the current login screen is overly complicated. So we’re rolling out some […]
Build Your Personal Brand
We talk about branding and marketing online quite a bit. It’s something we think is very important for everyone. It doesn’t matter if your business is one or two people, or has a staff of thousands. Having a strong, recognisable brand is important. Of course the same is true for any of us on an […]
Blacknight Sponsors Grow Remote – We Interview Tracy Keogh [Audio]
“When you can hire talent all over the world, and when you can allow people to live where they want to live, it just makes so much sense for the companies who do it right”– Tracy Keogh, Grow Remote Tracy Keogh of Grow Remote is our guest on today’s podcast. Remote working is an increasing […]
Upcoming Changes to EU Domains
We’ve been talking about .eu domain names and how they’re impacted by Brexit quite a bit over the last few months. This time round, however, we’re going to be looking at some upcoming changes to .eu that are not related to Brexit at all! As you may know the .eu domain space is a slightly […]
EU Domain Brexit Update
We have been keeping a close eye on developments involving the .eu domain and Brexit. As a result of the most recent changes to Brexit the .eu domain name registry (EURid) have announced that they are suspending all actions for now. Once the UK’s plans with respect to withdrawing from the European Union are updated […]
We Need to Explain to MEPs that Article 17 is a Bad Idea
Blacknight is joining with thousands of people today, individuals, organisations and SMEs like ourselves, in a Day of Action to persuade Members of the European Parliament to reject Article 17 (formerly Article 13) of the proposed EU Copyright Directive in a crucial vote next week. As the law currently stands, internet users are themselves responsible […]
St Patrick’s Day Holiday Arrangements
Sunday is St Patrick’s Day, and Monday 18 March 2019 is a public holiday in Ireland. Support will be available by email and live chat from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Monday. Telephone service will be provided for support, accounts and sales from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. The usual on-call support will be available to colocation […]
Scam Emails Targeting Blacknight
Over the past few days, there have been a number of phishing attacks targeting us and our customers. Our customer service team are dealing with high volumes of calls regarding the issue.
ICANN Kobe Could be Mostly About Whois (Again!)
I will be attending the upcoming ICANN meeting in Kobe, Japan next week, As ever it’ll be a very busy meeting with a packed schedule, however there are probably one or two topics that are of more importance to us and our clients than others. As some of you may know I am a regular […]