Don’t Scare Away Your Customers
With the release of Chrome 68 (July 24th 2018) if your website doesn’t have an SSL secure certificate visitors to it are going to get a fairly scary message. Why? Google has been pushing for HTTPS everywhere for some time. Over the last year the Chrome browser, which has around 60% of the global browser […]
WordPress Made Easy – with WordPress Toolkit for Plesk!
WordPress, the world’s most popular publishing platform, is a firm favourite with our customers. And now it’s easier than ever for users of our Plesk Onyx control panel. Plesk Onyx is a web-based control panel for administering physical and virtual (cloud) servers. These systems run Linux or Windows operating systems and offer much more functionality […]
Keeping More Data in the European Union
We’ve written quite a bit over the last few months about data protection, privacy and, of course, GDPR. We’ve always been very cautious about how our data and that of our clients is handled. Wherever possible we’ve always tried to keep data in Ireland or at least firmly within the European Union. However in some […]
What can law Enforcement Expect From us?
A few weeks ago I wrote about how and why we’re planning on doing a transparency report. The rationale behind providing the transparency report is fairly self-evident. However if we’re going to be transparent about what people are asking us for, whether those requests are valid or not, then we should be transparent with third […]
2017 “A Record Year” for New IE Domain Registrations
IE Domain Registry, the company responsible for managing and maintaining Ireland’s country-code domain name, .IE, has published its annual report for 2017. Turnover increased by 3 percent from €3.03 million in 2016 to €3.12 million in 2017. The company recorded an operating profit after tax surplus of €255,252, an increase on an operating loss after […]
‘Grandfathered’ Savings on .PW and .SPACE Domain Names Before 21 August
Are you thinking of registering a .SPACE or .PW domain name? If you act before 21 August you could save hundreds over the lifetime of your registered domain. Radix, the registry which runs both of those top-level domains have informed us that they plan to increase their annual registration fee, with effect from 21 August […]
Dot-Design Domains Help Big Brands Present Another Face [Audio]
Ray King is our guest on today’s podcast. He’s the CEO of Top Level Design, the company behind the .DESIGN, .INK and .WIKI domain registries. They’ve put out a report about how some big brands are using dot-design domain names, and Ray joined me on Skype to talk about it. Click on the player below to […]
Here Are Ten Great Reasons Why You Should Get Blogging
Have you ever thought, “I really ought to write a blog post about that”? No? I didn’t think so! But hang on a minute. If you’ve ever thought: “I’ve got something to say about this”, then a blog could be just the thing. And while social media services like Facebook and Twitter have generated a […]
Why We’re Proud to Be ‘Guaranteed Irish’!
At Blacknight we’ve always made much of being Irish. Partly, that’s because we operate internationally; you notice your nationality more when abroad. It’s also because we’re proud of our culture and heritage. We’re especially proud to have built a world-class domains, hosting and cloud services company in the rich countryside of South-East Ireland. We’re proud […]
ICANN Panama Will be all About GDPR and Data Addiction
The 62nd ICANN public meeting will be starting this weekend. The location? Panama City, Panama. I’ll be there both representing Blacknight, as well as in my role as Chair of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, as well as an elected representative of the Registrar Stakeholder Group to the GNSO Council. Translation? I’ll be wearing more than […]
Current Whois Data vs Historic Whois Data Published via 3rd Parties
We often get contacted by clients who have questions and queries about whois data or domain name registration data. People get understandably upset when the information they’ve provided in good faith to simply register a domain name, is abused by unscrupulous marketers to try and sell them products and services they’ve never expressed any interest […]
What’s Going on With the Belgian Domain Market?
Here at Blacknight we are directly accredited to offer a lot of domain name extensions, both country code names, as well as generic ones. We work closely with a lot of the domain name registries to offer our clients a broad range of choices when it comes to setting up their “online home”. Some domain […]