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 […]
Brexit and .EU Domains
If you have a .eu domain name with us and you’re using an address in the UK you’ll probably have got an email from us in the last couple of days. As we’ve mentioned several times over the past few months Brexit will have an impact on a number of things, including .eu domain names. […]
Blacknight is Taking Over The IOL, ESAT & OceanFree Email Services
Blacknight has agreed with BT Ireland to take over the email services which were originally provided to consumers by the old Ireland Online, ESAT and Ocean internet service providers (ISPs). While customers no longer use those old dial-up services, a significant number continue to use the email addresses they came with, which use the domains @iol.ie, @esatclear.ie, @iolfree.ie or @oceanfree.net. Over […]
Earn Real Money for Your Referrals
It’s no secret that we like to reward our customers with domain offers, free trials, great products and support. You’ve helped us grow into Ireland’s leading web hosting company and ICANN-accredited domain registrar since 2003 and we’d like to thank you for that! Not only do we want to keep offering these great deals, products […]
Phishing Attack Targeting Blacknight
We’ll try to keep this short and to the point. Over the last few days there have been a number of phishing attacks targeting us and our clients. The emails we’ve seen look similar to this one: We obviously did NOT send this email and we generally do not send people emails saying there’s a […]
UK Domain “Right of Registration” Expiring Soon
If you’ve had a co.uk domain name for a few years you might have got email from us recently about a “reserved” .uk domain. What’s this all about? When Nominet, the domain registry for co.uk (and .uk and others) introduced registrations directly under .uk they put a layer of protection in place for existing holders […]
Brexit Impact on Hosting Services & Domains
As an Irish company we’ve been following the discussions around Brexit closely in the media for the last 12+ months. While, as we’ve said previously, we can’t get embroiled in the politics, we have to see how it will impact us and our clients. At present we still don’t know what kind of “deal” if […]
A Portrait of the Artist at Congregation: Podcast with Joan Mulvihill
Joan Mulvihill is our guest on today’s podcast, another in our series from Congregation, the unique unconference event held in Cong, Co Mayo. Blacknight is a sponsor of Congregation. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 17:27; 10MB; MP3. Joan Mulvihill is interviewed for the Blacknight Podcast, at Congregation 2018 […]
Join The Blacknight Engineering Team
Blacknight is hiring again; we’re looking for a Junior Engineer to join our engineering team based in Carlow. It’s a great place to live and work, easy to get to from the M9 Dublin – Waterford motorway, and offers an interesting and challenging career. We run a chunk of the Internet with infrastructure in Dublin and Carlow; […]