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Friday Spam Stats
As it’s a Friday evening I thought I’d have a quick look at the spam filtering stats to see what’s been going on. I haven’t looked at ALL the figures yet, but just to give you a flavour of what’s...
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What Policies Should the IEDR Be Using?
The recent introduction of “personal IE domains” has been welcomed by all parties, but I get the impression that a lot of people are still unhappy with the restrictive policies being used by the IEDR....
View ArticleThe Strange Knockon Effect Of Changing Domains
As I’ve mentioned a few times in the past few weeks and months, we’re in the process of switching over from blacknight.ie to blacknight.com. I switched this blog over to the .com a couple of weeks ago...
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Danger – More Dubious Offers
The expression “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” may seem a little overused at times, but scam artists of all shapes and sizes are still “in the wild”. In some cases being a small bit more...
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Alert : Google Adwords Phishing Email
There will always be scams of some kind or other. The only thing that seems to change is how the scam is perpetrated … Google Adwords is currently one of the targets selected by phishers (see wikipedia...
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Setting Up Email Filtering With Plesk
Image via Wikipedia If you’re using Plesk on a VPS or dedicated server you may want to configure email filtering. There are two ways to block spam from reaching you on a Plesk server: Spam Assassin...
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New e-mail related feature
Today we can announce that Qmail (email) users on every subscription will have their own service user. Wow you say that’s brilliant? Or maybe you might ask “What is a service user?”. Well simply put,...
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Quick Tour Of AntiSpam.ie
We’ve been proactive about spam for a long time. While all our hosting accounts have some kind of email filtering available with them sometimes it’s simply not enough, so we also offer a premium...
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Global increase in spam
Over the last few months we have seen a steady increase in the amount of spam being sent to our mailservers, on multiple platforms. In particular we have seen a large surge in the last few days....
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Congregation 2015 Brings Social Media Heads to Mayo
I’m getting ready to to Congregation 2015 this weekend, in beautiful Cong, Co Mayo. Once again, this quiet Mayo village will play host to about 70 social media professionals who will participate in a...
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Black Friday Domain Discounts!
It’s “Black Friday” so we’ve pulled out all the stops on our domain name registration discounts and special offers. We already announced some special offers and discounts on *some* domain name...
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Want A Domain For Less Than A Euro?
We’ve been running some insane offers on domain registration since the end of last week. Today is the day the madness ends. Seriously. We cannot offer domain names for under €1! Our CFO would kill me!...
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Doing Some Lobbying “On The Hill”
Just over a week ago I was in Washington DC as part of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition‘s delegation. Over the course of two days we met with quite a few Hill staffers, congress people and...
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Celebrate Christmas Early With Our .Irish Promotion!
For the next couple of days you can celebrate Christmas early with a deep discount on .irish domain name registration. We’re offering 1 year registrations of .irish domain names for a mere €6.99...
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Talking Whois, New TLDs & IANA Transition
Last week I had a chat with Andrew Allemann of Domain Name Wire for his podcast. Domain Name Wire is one of the most popular blogs covering domain names out there, so it was an honour to be invited on...
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Irish Small Business? Blacknight SME Awards Nominations Now Open
Do you love SMEs? We do! Small businesses are the heart of the Irish economy. They employ thousands of people, pay millions of Euro in taxes, but all too often are all but ignored by the media. Big...
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Remember: Last Call For IE Domain Registrations / Transfers
As you may know the .ie ccTLD manually validates new registrations and transfers. Their offices will be closed from Wednesday December 23rd 2015 until Monday January 4th 2016. During the timeframe...
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Pre-Order Your Short IE Domain Today
Would you like to have the domain 1.ie or b.ie? These and many other 1 and 2 character domains are still available to register. The “landrush” for short .ie domain names opens in February, as we...
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2015 A Quick Review
It’s the end of the year. While we’re all focussing on the Christmas holiday break and making plans for next year – 2016 – it’s a good time to step back for a moment and do a quick roundup of the year...
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Enter your SME for Free in the Blacknight SME Awards [Audio]
We’ve said it before: we love SMEs! Big or small; tech or transport; retail or repair – you’re our kind of people, and we like to help you go online and do even more business! That’s why we sponsored...
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