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WARNING: Domain Transfer Scam from Domain Registry of America (via BRANDON GRAY INTERNET SERVICES INC dba NameJuice.com)

AUSWEB Customer Care would like to warn domain registrants regarding another Domain Transferal scam.

Domain Registry of America (DROA) are at it again with another Email Scam going out to all registrants of gTLD domain names offering to transfer their domain to them. The notice looks like the process is a mandatory requirement for the registrant to enter into. The email was sent by illegally harvesting the public Whois database for .com and other gTLD domain names.
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Domain Names, Domains, FRAUD and Scams, Spam, Uncategorized

Taken via: NeoWin

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (or ICANN) is expected to approve a new system this week that will allow for website addresses with characters other than those based on the Latin alphabet. Peter Dengate Thrush, the chairman of the ICANN described it as being “the biggest change technically to the internet since it was invented 40 years ago”.

The internet as a whole currently has over 800 million users speaking languages with non-Latin alphabets. The proposed International Domain Name (IDN) system could potentially allow for alphabets from a wide variety of cultures, including Cyrillic, Chinese, Kanji, Korean and Greek. Considering the large number of people that would benefit from a system like this, the change seems well overdue, but the ICANN haven’t rushed into this. “We’re confident that it works because we’ve been testing it now for a couple of years”, Mr Thrush said, “and so we’re really ready to start rolling it out.”

Based on a new system of scripts capable of converting the characters to find the right address, the IDN could be up and running as soon as mid 2010. The ICANN expect to come to a decision of the proposal this Friday.

Domains, News

Recent versions of Bind distributed by RedHat and CentOS enable strict zone checking at startup time. This setting can potentially cause problems for Bind users with a large number of zone files or syntax errors in individual zone files. In these circumstances, users may experience an inability to restart Bind after a shutdown.

cPanel has produced and distributed an autofixer for this condition. This repair will run automatically on all systems with updates enabled. However, cPanel checks only occur at specific times and depending upon update schedules, users experiencing issues restarting Bind may benefit from manually executing the code to disable strict zone checking.  You may safely execute the autofixer at your discretion by running the following command:

/scripts/autorepair bind_disable_checkzone

Blogging, Domains, Operating Systems, cPanel

File Under “Faulty Plumbing”: For nearly three months, malware planted by hackers on servers operated by Network Solutions intercepted more than 573,000 credit and debt card numbers used to services rendered by the domain registration and hosting service provide.

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Blogging, Domain Names, Domains, Security

If you’ve ever had those times when your website or emails are just not working how they should, the first thing you can do to see where the problem possibly resides is to get a DNS report on your domain.

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DNS, Domain Names, Domains DNS, Domain Names, ip address, MX records, name servers, reporting tools

A fair few people know what DNS lookups are, Even without having to work in the IT industry. It basically converts the pretty, familliar and easy to understand (for us) “www.domain.com” into an IP Address, which computers can understand and direct traffic to.

The Image below is from Verisign, and to make the understanding a bit easier, it ignores the process of caching.

Image source: Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief, June 2007 (PDF), last page.

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Domains, PHP Applications, Science & Tech DNS, Domain Name, Lookups

Verisign recently published it’s quarterly domain report – “The Domain Name Industry Brief“.

As to be expected from a report dealing with numbers of that size, the latest report is a little on the boring side for the average person, with a lot data and statistics to wade through.

So we’ve picked some of the more interesting figures, which you can see below!

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Domains, Web Hosting News Domain Names, Verisign