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Want To Win An Xbox 360 + Xbox Live Gold Membership?

Want To Win An Xbox 360 + Xbox Live Gold Membership?

By Michele Neylon|2012-02-06T16:06:37+00:00February 6th, 2012|Categories: Competitions|Tags: facebook, Games, Microsoft, Netflix, Video Games, Xbox, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Gold|

We haven't given away any "shiny objects" in a while, so we thought it was about time that we did. ...

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Security Issues

Security Issues

By Michele Neylon|2012-02-03T13:17:26+00:00February 2nd, 2012|Categories: Security|Tags: blacknight, Carlow, Data Protection Commissioner, ireland, security|

Normally we blog about pretty much all news we have - both good news and bad news. This morning, however, ...

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Calm Reasoned Dialogue Helps

Calm Reasoned Dialogue Helps

By Michele Neylon|2023-04-26T11:59:13+01:00February 1st, 2012|Categories: Legal Issues, Policy|Tags: acta, copyright, Dáil Éireann, digital rights, ireland, irish internet association, Parliament of Ireland, PIPA, Sherlock, SOPA, Statutory Instrument, United States|

The last week or so has been "interesting" to say the least. (Last time round it was only a couple ...

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Think Of The Hungry Dragons And Get Mobile

Think Of The Hungry Dragons And Get Mobile

By Michele Neylon|2012-01-30T15:58:38+00:00January 30th, 2012|Categories: Mobile|Tags: .mobi domain, handheld device, mobi, Mobile device, Oatmeal, Smartphone, Tablet, Top-level domain|

Mobile is big and getting bigger. If you ignore it as part of your business then you do so at ...

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Anonymous Targets Irish Government Sites In Response To “Irish SOPA”

By Michele Neylon|2012-01-25T15:20:10+00:00January 25th, 2012|Categories: News, Policy|Tags: blacknight, censorship, EMI, Government of Ireland, Intellectual property, ireland, Irish government, legislation|

The last couple of days have been very "interesting". As I mentioned previously, the Irish government intends to enact legislation ...

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Say No To An Irish SOPA Style Law Say Yes To Democracy

Say No To An Irish SOPA Style Law Say Yes To Democracy

By Michele Neylon|2012-01-24T07:40:07+00:00January 23rd, 2012|Categories: Legal Issues, Policy|Tags: blacknight, copyright, Ebay, facebook, freedom of speech, google, hosting, Intellectual property, ireland, isps, legal, legislation, paypal, Sean Sherlock, SOPA, takedown|

Remember SOPA? We didn't like it and it was pretty clear that a lot of internet users weren't too happy ...

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Happy new year again

Happy new year again

By James Larkin|2012-01-23T15:39:19+00:00January 23rd, 2012|Categories: General|

One of the great things about being an international company is you get to celebrate lots more holidays. Of course ...

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Use Zemanta To Improve Your Blogging

By Michele Neylon|2012-01-23T10:25:38+00:00January 22nd, 2012|Categories: Blogging, Tips|Tags: blog, blogger, Content management, flickr, Twitter, wordpress, Zemanta|

Personally I love blogging. I write for the company blog on a regular basis, but I also write ...

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Measurement Tickets Up For Grabs!

By Michele Neylon|2012-01-20T19:05:09+00:00January 20th, 2012|Categories: Events, Marketing|Tags: Bert, blacknight, dublin, facebook, irish web awards, National College of Ireland, Social media, Twitter|

Measurement is being held next month in Dublin and we're really excited about it and Bert got all dressed up! ...

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Wikipedia And Other High Profile Sites Protest SOPA / PIPA

By Michele Neylon|2012-01-18T10:19:04+00:00January 18th, 2012|Categories: Events, News, Policy|Tags: google, ireland, PIPA, Reddit, SOPA, Wikipedia|

I posted about our thoughts on SOPA and why we were opposed to it over Christmas. In the last week ...

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Year Of The Cloud Discount

By Michele Neylon|2012-01-16T14:37:34+00:00January 16th, 2012|Categories: Cloud Hosting, Hosting, Promotions|Tags: blacknight, business, Cloud computing, ireland, Microsoft Windows, Virtual private server, windows|

2012 is the Year of the Dragon. We decided we'd make it the "year of the cloud" by offering you ...

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New TLD Application Window Opens Tomorrow What Does It Mean?

By Michele Neylon|2012-01-11T15:51:00+00:00January 11th, 2012|Categories: Domains, ICANN, New TLDs|Tags: Domain name, Generic top-level domain, icann, newtlds, Top-level domain, verisign|

Tomorrow, January 12th 2012 ICANN will open the application window for new TLDs. What on earth does that mean? ...

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Getting A Domain Name That’s Already Registered

By Michele Neylon|2012-01-05T15:54:08+00:00January 5th, 2012|Categories: Domains, Marketing, SEO, Tips|Tags: aftermarket, Broker, business, Business and Economy, Computers and Internet, Domain name, icann, sedo|

Choosing the right domain name for your business is, arguably, one of the most important decisions you will need to ...

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January Blues Getting You Down? Save Big In Our Mega Hosting and Domain Name Sale!

By Michele Neylon|2018-07-13T09:32:32+01:00January 3rd, 2012|Categories: Domains, dotMe, dotTel, Email, EURid, Hosting, ICANN, Promotions|Tags: ASP.NET, Blackberry Enterprise Server, blacknight, Business and Economy, Computers and Internet, Domain name, Domain name registry, hosting, icann, ireland, linux, windows|

Today's the first day back at work in 2012 for most people. We know that a lot of people find ...

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Happy New Year 2012

By Michele Neylon|2012-01-01T13:04:30+00:00January 1st, 2012|Categories: Business, Domains, Events, Hosting, News, Promotions|Tags: Diamond Jubilee, Domain name, Generic top-level domain, hosting, icann, ireland, jubilee, London, new year, olympics, podcast, technology|

Happy New Year! 2012 should be an interesting year and hopefully it will be a good year for all of ...

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Blacknight Does Not Support SOPA

Blacknight Does Not Support SOPA

By Michele Neylon|2012-01-02T14:28:35+00:00December 27th, 2011|Categories: Domains, Legal Issues, Policy|Tags: Domain name, Intellectual property, Internet service provider, SOPA|

We've always been strong believers in striking as sane a balance as possible between privacy, freedom of expression and protection ...

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New options available on Cloud Hosting

New options available on Cloud Hosting

By Paul Kelly|2018-07-11T11:02:36+01:00December 15th, 2011|Categories: Cloud Hosting, Hosting, News|Tags: Cloud computing, cloud hosting, cloud linux, CloudLinux, linux, Parallels Plesk Panel, plesk, PostgreSQL|

We're rolling out a number of upgrades to our cloud hosting platform today. The first that we're happy to announce ...

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Christmas Opening Hours

By Michele Neylon|2011-12-23T12:03:36+00:00December 14th, 2011|Categories: Hosting|Tags: christmas, holidays|

While our servers might be working 24/7/365 our staff will be taking some time off over the Christmas holidays. So ...

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