I’ve mentioned webhosting.info’s hosting stats several times over the past couple of years. While I still do not find them to be 100% accurate I would consider them to be a relatively good barometer of relative sizes etc.,
During the course of 2006 Blacknight’s growth was steady and healthy (screenshot from domaintools)
If you look at our overall position compared to our competitors in the Irish market, however, the picture is much more revealing:
Paul spotted our new position at number 2 last week.
As he mentioned we’ve just taken on a new sales manager, so hopefully if he does his job we’ll continue to grow and I’ll get my dream car one of these days 🙂
I first registered blacknight-solutions.com back in July 2000. I didn’t even pay for the first year’s domain registration, as I won it in a competition (the hyphenated domain was a really bad idea by the way).
Personally I’d never have imagined that six and a half years later we’d be in the top three!
So what for the future?
We’ve got lots of interesting plans in the pipeline and they’ll be revealed at the right time (I hope!) on the company blog or main site.
You might be asking yourself why I’m not blogging about this on the “official” Blacknight blog… Well the answer is very simple – a lot of it started here.
Just over 3 years ago I started this blog (November 2003). At the time I was playing about with Movable Type and used the blog as a way of venting my random thoughts and frustrations:
Working for your own company is an odd experience. At times you lack inspiration and would like to throw in the towel. At other times you find yourself driving yourself forward in way no employer could ever imagine
November ’03
A lot has changed since then….
First we hired Niall, who has since moved onto Google.
Then we moved into our offices….
Then there was the staff expansion.. and more expansion and, well, more expansion…
We’re now running out of space in the office again!
NB: Figures only reflect Com/net/org/info/biz They do not take into consideration ccTLDs, such as .ie, co.uk or regional / specialist extensions such as .eu , .travel
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