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Happy Independence Day from everyone at Blacknight

Happy Independence Day from everyone at Blacknight

By James Larkin|2013-07-04T19:55:31+01:00July 4th, 2013|Categories: General|Tags: Fourth of July, holidays, Independence Day, lego, minifigs|

This goes out to all our family, friends and clients. Happy Independence Day. While we might have considered running an ...

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Rebooting Whois

Rebooting Whois

By Michele Neylon|2013-07-03T14:44:50+01:00July 3rd, 2013|Categories: Domains, ICANN, Policy|Tags: Domain name, Domain name registry, Durban, Environmental Working Group, EWG, Fadi Chehadé, Generic top-level domain, icann, whois|

As regular readers probably know, I spend quite a bit of my time working on Internet policy related matters. Some ...

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Unicorns, Rainbows Horses And Awards

Unicorns, Rainbows Horses And Awards

By Michele Neylon|2013-06-27T11:47:30+01:00June 27th, 2013|Categories: Design, Events|Tags: 2013 Net Visionary Award, blacknight, ireland, irish internet association|

We've been involved in the Irish Internet Association for years. If you're involved in "Internet" related business in Ireland then ...

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Is your Digital Web host getting you down?

Is your Digital Web host getting you down?

By James Larkin|2018-07-13T09:32:03+01:00June 25th, 2013|Categories: Business, Cloud Hosting, Customer Service, Domains, Hosting|Tags: blacknight, Business and Economy, Computers and Internet, Help desk, Internet hosting service, servers, Web hosting service, website|

Here at Blacknight we take hosting very seriously, whether you're looking for hosting for a small blog or looking for ...

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Puppies, Domains and Startups

Puppies, Domains and Startups

By Michele Neylon|2013-06-09T21:02:08+01:00June 9th, 2013|Categories: Domains|Tags: blacknight, Croatia, Domain name, domains, marketing, Shift Conference, Split, Split Croatia|

A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to attend the Shift conference in Split, Croatia (sorry - I ...

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Win A Year’s Subscription To Business Plus

Win A Year’s Subscription To Business Plus

By Michele Neylon|2013-06-09T14:31:36+01:00June 9th, 2013|Categories: Competitions|Tags: business, Business and Economy, Business Plus, ireland, Magazine, Magazines and E-zines|

We've teamed up with the nice people over at Business Plus magazine, Ireland's leading business magazine, for a nice little ...

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We won #Sockies13

We won #Sockies13

By James Larkin|2013-06-04T13:33:42+01:00June 4th, 2013|Categories: General|Tags: awards, Best Business Twitter Account, customer service, marketing, Social media, Twitter|

We won't lie. It's always nice to win and we weren't disappointed Thursday night ( ok maybe a little bit ...

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.Cat Domain Statistics

.Cat Domain Statistics

By Michele Neylon|2013-05-29T11:32:48+01:00May 29th, 2013|Categories: Domains, dotCat, Marketing|Tags: .cat, catalan, catalonia, domains, language, statistics, usage|

I've always found visuals much easier to understand than tabular data, so the graphics that our friends over at .cat ...

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Social Media Awards Finals Are Go!

Social Media Awards Finals Are Go!

By Michele Neylon|2013-05-28T11:04:49+01:00May 27th, 2013|Categories: Customer Service, Events, Hosting, Marketing, Social Media|Tags: business, customer service, dublin, facebook, Internet marketing, marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Sociable, Social media, social media awards, Twitter, youtube|

[divider_flat] This Thursday evening the Social Media Awards are being held in Dublin's Clyde Court Hotel. We're delighted and honoured ...

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Asian IDNs Now Available Under .Co

Asian IDNs Now Available Under .Co

By Michele Neylon|2013-05-10T11:28:09+01:00May 10th, 2013|Categories: .co, Domains, Press Releases|Tags: ASCII, blacknight, Domain name registrar, icann, IDN, Internationalized domain name|

We've mentioned IDNs in the past. Basically an IDN domain name allows you to register using non-ASCII characters. At the ...

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Important: Automating Diskspace and Bandwidth (Traffic) Over-usage Notices

Important: Automating Diskspace and Bandwidth (Traffic) Over-usage Notices

By Tara Callinan|2013-06-06T14:53:20+01:00May 7th, 2013|Categories: Hosting|Tags: Bandwidth (computing), Disk space, Gigabyte, Microsoft Windows, Shared web hosting service, traffic, Web hosting service|

In the interests of fair usage and in order to ensure that customers receive the best possible service, from the ...

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Celebrate 10 Years Of Blacknight & Win A Google Nexus 7!

Celebrate 10 Years Of Blacknight & Win A Google Nexus 7!

By Michele Neylon|2013-05-16T13:55:38+01:00May 3rd, 2013|Categories: Competitions|Tags: competition, giveaway, google, Nexus, Nexus 7, Tablet, Tablet computer|

10 years ago this month my business partner and I sat down and signed the paperwork to incorporate the company. ...

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NSFW! Save BIG On XXX Domains

NSFW! Save BIG On XXX Domains

By Michele Neylon|2013-05-01T16:05:53+01:00May 1st, 2013|Categories: Domains, Promotions, xxx|Tags: .xxx, Business and Economy, discount, Domain name, domains, promotion, registrar, Top-level domain|

We love a special offer and we love being able to bring you BIG ones. The temptation to make silly ...

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Think of the Puppies!

Think of the Puppies!

By Michele Neylon|2013-05-01T11:27:24+01:00May 1st, 2013|Categories: Domains, Events, Press Releases|Tags: Balkans, blacknight, Bryan Calhoun, Carlow, Croatia, Domain name registrar, events, icann, Michele Neylon, Mike Butcher, Montenegro, Shift Conference, Split|

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm passionate about the Internet. They'll probably also tell you that I'm very passionate ...

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Patch up WordPress ( please )

Patch up WordPress ( please )

By James Larkin|2018-07-13T09:27:40+01:00April 25th, 2013|Categories: Security, Tips, WordPress|Tags: automatic, Content management system, notifications, patch, Patch (computing), Plug-in (computing), upgrade, wordpress, WordPress Plugin Directory|

Waking up today and we're hearing about more issues with certain plugins so once again here's the type of blog ...

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Press Release: Irish registrar says New RAA is a step in the right direction

Press Release: Irish registrar says New RAA is a step in the right direction

By Michele Neylon|2013-04-23T17:15:20+01:00April 23rd, 2013|Categories: News, Policy, Press Releases|Tags: Domain name registrar, icann, RAA, whois|

Following up on my blog post from earlier we just sent this out to the media: Blacknight Announce New ICANN ...

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New Domain Registration Agreement Recognises Local Law and Privacy

New Domain Registration Agreement Recognises Local Law and Privacy

By Michele Neylon|2013-04-23T17:39:00+01:00April 23rd, 2013|Categories: Domains, ICANN, Policy|Tags: Beijing, blacknight, Contract, Domain name, Domain name registrar, Generic top-level domain, icann, Registrar Accreditation Agreement, whois|

I've spoken about the RAA (Registrar Accreditation Agreement) in the past. I haven't always been too positive about the planned ...

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The Domains In Spain Fall Mainly On ..

The Domains In Spain Fall Mainly On ..

By Michele Neylon|2013-04-22T11:22:25+01:00April 22nd, 2013|Categories: Domains, Events, New TLDs|Tags: blacknight, Country code top-level domain, Domain name, Generic top-level domain, icann, spain, Top-level domain, Valencia|

Next week I'll be heading off to Valencia in Spain for Domaining Spain 2013. I'll be speaking on a panel ...

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