Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
We will be performing emergency maintenance tonight 25.03.2025 at 21:00 , on our domain registration platform. There will be a brief outage whilst the node is rebooted and services impacted are as follows domain availability checks domain registrations domain updates and renewals the whois /RDAP services will be offline for the duration The expected outage […]
Blacknight will be carrying out essential maintenance on our domain registration platform between 12:00 – 14:00 Irish time, on Wednesday 14th December 2022. This will impact the purchasing or updates of domains for a short period. The outage is expected to be no more than 20 minutes, but we are allowing a window of 2 […]
Summary: Since 9am approximately on 22/12 Weare.ie (The Irish domain registry/IEDR) have been having issues with their registry backend. We are unable to submit new domain registrations or domain transfers as a result. They aren’t able to give us an ETA as of yet. But they have informed us that they’ve engaged their software vendor […]
Summary: The .irish gTLD was acquired late in 2016 and is moving to a new backend provider on the 1st of March. However it appears that the nameservers for the tld have been changed prematurely. The resulting knock on effect is that all domains that end in .irish do not resolve at the moment. […]