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We’re organising a BIG JANUARY SALE – beginning New Year’s Day we’ll have some very attractive special offers! BUT – we’ve already begun with some extra-early offers, valid until New Year’s Eve: Our .CLUB domain deal has been a huge success – but it must end on 31 December! Register your .CLUB name for only €0.89*! Also: .LONDON (€7.49*); .ME (€2.99*); .INFO (€2.99*); .CO (€10.99*) Our special offer […]
For many of our customers, Blacknight is a website and an online service. Others engage with us online and on social media, and you’re always welcome to give us a call! But you don’t see the faces behind Blacknight that often – which is why I’m especially grateful to the brave staff who joined me […]
Today’s podcast is the first in a series of conversations recorded at Congregation 2018, which was held last month in Cong, Co Mayo. It was the sixth year of this unique unconference event, and the theme this year was ‘Ideas’. Blacknight is a sponsor of Congregation. As the crowd gathered around the cross on Main […]
Monday 6 August 2018 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 and dedicated server customers. Online domain […]
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 […]
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 […]
We’ve been advertising on RTÉ Radio 1 for a few weeks now, on primetime programmes like Morning Ireland and Drivetime. If you haven’t heard it, click here for a listen! The message is simple, designed to make the most of 20 seconds of airtime. In a nutshell: “Customers place more trust in businesses that […]
It’s May the Fourth today – so we shout out to Star Wars fans! This year, it coincides with the May Bank Holiday Weekend in Ireland. Monday 7 May 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 […]
Dietmar Stefitz is our guest on the Blacknight Podcast today. He’s the organiser of Domaining Europe – now known as NamesCon Europe following its takeover earlier this month. Blacknight is a sponsor of the event. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 12:59; 7MB; MP3. A native of Austria, […]
UPDATE: 29/03/2018 9:30am. IEDR has announced that it will have staff at work on Friday 30 March, in order to deal with the current high volume of demand for IE domain names. We at Blacknight would like to wish all our customers and friends a Happy Easter! Our offices will be open as normal on Friday […]
It’s been a busy day here at Blacknight, thanks to the relaxation of the rules for registering .IE domain names, which came into effect today, and the irresistible value of Blacknight’s €4.99 .IE offer. I dropped into the Carlow office of Michele Neylon, Blacknight’s CEO, to get his thoughts on the day’s events. Click on […]
We’ve been doing podcasts on the Blacknight Blog for about 6 months now. The Blacknight Podcast started off slowly and tentatively, but we think we like it, so we’re going to keep doing it! 🙂 Now we’ve gone all in and published the subscription feed (in RSS format), and got ourselves listed on Apple podcasts as well. What’s it about? Well, we’re […]