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Coder Dojo has swept the the world in recent years; it’s a grassroots movement helping children to develop computer skills. Having started in Ireland, it’s now a global phenomenon, and next month, Kilkenny will play host to DojoCon 2018, a conference for people involved in CoderDojo around the world. Blacknight is sponsoring DojoCon 2018 and […]
Dublin Tech Summit gets underway today at the Convention Centre Dublin, and Blacknight is there with EURid, the EU domain registry. Come and say hello! We’re at stand D6, to the right of the hall as you enter, and near the stage. To celebrate, we’ve cut the price of .EU domains! Normally €6.95, you can […]
Tech Talk is a collaboration between Blacknight and KCLR 96FM radio. Every two weeks we join Ken McGuire on KCLR Drive for a chat about technology news. You can hear it live on the air, and it’s also a podcast. We include it here also in the Blacknight Podcast feed. Click on the player below to […]
Blacknight is an Irish company that does business internationally. It helps a lot that we speak English, and that lots of other people do around the world. But as the Internet brings us all closer, it also reveals the rich diversity of our cultures and languages to each other. Some people think that some languages […]
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 […]
There are just four weeks to go to Congregation, the unique ideas event held in the village of Cong, Co Mayo. Blacknight is a sponsor, so we invited the organiser, Eoin Kennedy, to join us on today’s podcast. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 22:06; 13MB; MP3. Congregation, […]
BLOGGERCONF is Ireland’s leading conference for digital creatives, bloggers and YouTubers, and it’s on in Dublin’s Mansion house on 20 May. Blacknight is an exhibitor and a speaker at the event, and this afternoon we skyped event organiser Emma O’Farrell for a preview podcast! Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it […]
WorldHostingDays is the global event series for the cloud services and internet infrastructure industries. The main event is WHD.global, a week-long festival that happens annually in Germany. It’s where leaders come together to understand how all digital technologies fit together to shape our current world and our future.
We’ll be heading to San Diego, California for HostingCon Global again this year. It’s a good opportunity for us to strengthen relationships with vendors and also to assess new products and services to add to our portfolio. However, if the event was only about talking to vendors it might be a little dry. Throughout the […]
Tomorrow (February 24th 2015) afternoon from 1500 UTC (3PM Irish time) you’ll be able to register .science domain names. Since .science is so incredibly geeky we’ve come up with rather nerdy pricing .. For a limited time only we’ll be offering a 1 year .science registration for €2.55 ex-VAT Our graphics team have been enjoying […]
Blacknight’s new data centre was officially opened on Monday by the Minister of State for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock TD, before an audience of friends and colleagues. Afterwards, our CEO Michele Neylon spoke about the company’s 10-year journey, from a bedroom in Paul Kelly‘s sister’s house, to a 12,000 sq ft facility employing […]
Happy New Year! 2012 should be an interesting year and hopefully it will be a good year for all of us. So what’s coming up in 2012? Well the VAT rate in Ireland has gone up as of midnight last night, which puts a bit of a downer on the start of a new year.. […]