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Domain Registry Changes Coming to .Irish Domain

Domain Registry Changes Coming to .Irish Domain

By Michele Neylon|2017-03-01T13:29:41+00:00March 1st, 2017|Categories: Domains|Tags: afilias, dns, Domain name, donuts, irish, Name server|

We've talked about the .irish domain name extension quite a bit over the last couple of years. Recently, [...]

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DNS Magic Behind the Scenes

DNS Magic Behind the Scenes

By Michele Neylon|2019-02-05T15:53:04+00:00February 17th, 2017|Categories: Domains, Hosting, redundancy|Tags: ANYCAST, dns, Domain name, domains, internet, Name server|

DNS. It's not exciting or particularly interesting for most businesses. Yet you all use the DNS every single [...]

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Visualising The Top 250 New Domain Extensions As The London Tube

Visualising The Top 250 New Domain Extensions As The London Tube

By Michele Neylon|2016-12-15T11:14:42+00:00August 23rd, 2016|Categories: Domains, Infographic|Tags: Country code top-level domain, Domain name, Generic top-level domain, icann, Name server, Nominet UK, Top-level domain|

There are now over 1000 new top level domain names "out there". Some have proven popular. Others have [...]

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Yesterday’s Network & DNS Outage

Yesterday’s Network & DNS Outage

By Michele Neylon|2015-10-28T12:46:11+00:00October 28th, 2015|Categories: Hosting, Service Issue|Tags: Denial-of-service attack, dns, Domain Name System, hosting, Name server, network, outage, website|

Normally we don't write about service issues on this site. We have a specific site we reserve solely for [...]

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Blacknight.tech Is Now Live!

Blacknight.tech Is Now Live!

By Michele Neylon|2015-08-31T16:47:47+01:00August 31st, 2015|Categories: Customer Service, Domains|Tags: branding, Denial-of-service attack, Domain name, Domain Name System, hosting, Name server, servers|

I've always been a strong believer that we should "eat our own dogfood". If we're going to sell [...]

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Updating Your Nameservers Via The Blacknight Control Panel

By Michele Neylon|2012-01-17T15:57:43+00:00January 11th, 2009|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, howto, Tips|Tags: control panel, dns, DNS Providers, Domain name, Domain Name System, domains, flash, Name server, Protocols, screencast, tutorial, youtube|

If you're moving your domain to us from another provider please read our basic guides on moving hosting [...]

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Backlog and Delays With IE Registrations

By Michele Neylon|2008-12-17T13:22:36+00:00December 17th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, iedr|Tags: documentation, Domain name, Domain name registry, IE Domain Registry, Name server, Registration|

There is currently a backlog of IE domain registration requests. We are processing any requests that we receive [...]

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