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scheduled maintenance on our domain registrar platform Wednesday Dec 17th 08:00 -09:00

We will be performing essential maintenance on our domain registrar platforom tomorrow between 08:00 and 09:00. Services affected – Customers will be unable to register , renew , or carry out nameserver updates during the maintenance, but this will not impact existing domain functions.   We will update this post once the maintenance is completed. […]

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cloud1 hypervisor reboot

A single node on cloud1.blacknight.ie has unexpectedly rebooted at 17;10 causing some of the VMs hosted on it to shut down. Engineers are currently bringing those services online and they will be back shortly. This has only impacted a small number of VMs on the overall cloud infrastructure.   Update : 17:51 all services (VMs) […]

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Christmas – New Year network freeze 2025-2026

Blacknight will implement a Network Operations Freeze for the Christmas and New Year period 2025/2026 commencing 17:00 on Friday December 12th 2025 until at 8:00 am Monday, January 5th, 2026, with a cooldown period commencing close of business Friday 6th December. During the Network Operations Freeze only emergency maintenance will be permitted on the Blacknight network. […]

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