May Bank Holiday Working Arrangements
Monday 6 May 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 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 […]
IE Domain Registry Launching New Dispute Resolution Process
The IEDR, which runs the .ie domain name registry, will be introducing a new dispute resolution process in July of this year. At the moment if there’s a dispute involving a .ie domain name registration, such as one in relation to trademark rights, the only avenue open to a complainant is the ieDRP which is […]
Blacknight Shortlisted for Ireland’s Tech Excellence Awards
The shortlists have been announced for Ireland’s national Tech Excellence Awards 2019, and Blacknight is nominated in two categories. Our company joins five others on the shortlist for IT Professional of the Year, which will be presented to the individual or team who can demonstrate outstanding management of technology in their enterprise. The award may […]
Final Call on IOL Email
Today (30th April 2019) is the final day that you can switch your IOL.ie email over to ourselves. If you don’t make the switch today your old IOL.ie email account will be shutdown and you will NOT be able to move it to us. As we previously announced, we are working with BT Ireland to […]
Important: IOL, EsatClear & OceanFree Email
As we announced earlier this year, we’re taking over the email services for several of the original free ISP email accounts. Those services are: @iol.ie@iolfree.ie@oceanfree.net@esatclear.net It’s a bit of Irish internet history … When the internet was introduced to the Irish market many many years ago IOL and other ISPs were some of the first […]
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 […]