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We will be conducting emergency maintenance on our mail relay system on Friday morning at 8am. During this time, the mail relay system will be unavailable for approximately 30-60 minutes. Any mail sent during this time will be queued and will be delivered as expected once the maintenance is complete. Maintenance now completed.
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 […]
Blacknight will implement a Network Operations Freeze for the Christmas and New Year period 2022/2023 commencing 17:00 on Friday December 16th 2022 until at 8:00am Tuesday January 3rd 2023, with a cooldown period commencing close of business Friday 09th December. During the Network Operations Freeze only emergency maintenance will be permitted on the Blacknight network. […]
Starting from next week, the 21st of November 2022, we will be decommissioning any remaining Windows shared hosting plans on our systems. The owners of any Windows plans have been previously contacted via email multiple times this year in relation to this process. How will this affect me? If you still have an active Windows […]