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Social Media and A Hosting Provider / Domain Registrar
When you don’t have a massive marketing budget you need to be careful how you spend what you have and try to find alternate methods to promote your business. Promoting your business shouldn’t be just...
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Best Of Luck To Irish Web Awards Finalists
The Realex Payments Irish Web Awards are on tonight in Dublin’s Mansion House. Over the past few weeks there have been nominations, long lists, shortlists and now the only ones left are the finalists!...
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Protect Your Brand – It’s Not Hard!
We’ve spoken about the concept of “branding” on here a few times in the past. With more and more people going online every single day the importance of “owning” your “brand” online is growing day by...
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Social Media Awards 2012 Nominations Close Friday
If your business is using social media then you might want to consider entering it for the 2012 Social Media Awards. Nominations close this Friday You can find out more about last year’s winners...
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Coffee and Email – Our Current Print Advertising Campaign
At the moment we’re focussing our marketing spend on “digital”. We run Facebook ads, Google Ads and are running a number of marketing promotions via social media and this blog. But we still like print....
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Social Media Awards Finals Are Go!
This Thursday evening the Social Media Awards are being held in Dublin’s Clyde Court Hotel. We’re delighted and honoured to be a finalist in several categories: Customer Care using Social Media...
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How We Use Social Media for Customer Service
We’ve been vocal advocates of social media for quite some time (though we also know there are limits!). We’ve even won a couple of awards over the last few years for our usage of social media (which...
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Off To Arizona For WHD USA
Gianni and I will be at WHD.usa in Phoenix, Arizona over the next few days. It’s a good opportunity for us to meet with both existing and potential vendors. Why does this matter? It’s key to us to...
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5 Ways To Boost Your Online Presence & Success
We receive many calls about “making my site show up in Google”. While we don’t offer web development services, nor are we SEO consultants, we deal with the topic on a daily basis. Seeing as it’s such...
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Domaining Europe Goes To The Hague
There aren’t that many domain focussed events held in Europe. Domaining Europe, which is now in its 8th year, is probably the biggest. Up until this year the event was always held in Valencia, Spain,...
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The IANA Transition Cannot Be Held Hostage
Back in March 2014 the US government, via the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which is part of the US Department of Commerce, signalled that it was ready to decouple the US...
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It’s Summer! We’re Hiring!
It’s summer, and Blacknight is hiring! Once again we’re looking for people to join our team, in sales, software development, marketing and customer service. We’ve been busy developing and enhancing...
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ICANN Helsinki: Quick Post-mortem and Some Numbers
Last week I was in Helsinki for the ICANN meeting. ICANN 56 was the first meeting organised using ICANN’s new meeting format. So instead of it being 6 days + of meetings and sessions, the “policy...
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Save BIG On A Selection of Domains This Month!
For the month of July we’re offering a HUGE discount on a selection of domain name extensions. These offers are valid for one year domain name registration. For a mere €1.79 (ex-VAT) you’ll be able to...
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IEDR Wants YOUR Input! Should An Aftermarket For IE Domains Be Allowed?
Over the past year or so I’ve been involved with the IEDR’s Policy Advisory Committee along with representatives from other registrars, the Irish government and a variety of other stakeholder...
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Doing Business With The Channel Islands? Save BIG On .je and .gg Domains!
The Channel Islands registry, which run both .je and .gg, are celebrating 20 years of existence this August. To celebrate the milestone they’re running a special promotion on .je and .gg domain name...
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Talking About “Abuse” In New Orleans At HostingCon
A couple of us will be heading off to New Orleans tomorrow morning. Why are we going there? Well New Orleans plays host to this year’s HostingCon. We’ve been attending HostingCon for the last few...
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Vote for Your Choice in the IIA Dot-IE Net Visionary Awards
Blacknight is a long and loyal member of the Irish Internet Association, and we’re delighted to be sponsors yet again this year for the annual Net Visionary Awards. Shortlists were announced this...
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How Aware Are People Of New Domain Extensions?
Earlier this year ICANN commissioned a study to see how aware consumers are of domain name extensions, both “legacy” ones like .com and .org and the new ones such as .tech, .online etc.,. The results...
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The IANA Transition Cannot Be Held Hostage
Back in March 2014 the US government, via the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which is part of the US Department of Commerce, signalled that it was ready to decouple the US...
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