Posted by: pin on: 04 Nov, 2008
According to MyNIC, a Technical Contact can be defined as:
This is the person who maintains the domain name’s primary name server, secondary name server, resolver software and the domain name database files. This person keeps the name server running. He/she also answers all queries regarding technical matters, and interacts with technical people in other domains [...]
Posted by: pin on: 18 Sep, 2008
A hacker is someone who tweaks things to their purposes. A cracker is a low-life who attacks other people with malicious intent. There is a big difference.
Check this out ‘Collective effort restores DavidAirey.com‘!
Posted by: pin on: 10 Sep, 2008
My first domain is it-lodge.com, registered on 1999. Perhaps, I have also registered websitesolution.com.my and could be even earlier, but it was all done and managed by Asia Pacific Net.
One thing I’m sure - PageRank (PR) has really nothing to do with how long a domain name was registered. The website it-lodge.com has PR1 because it was not updated for long.
The challenge of getting it-lodge.com done, mainly because I was required to setup the website and all its pointing to our own web server. It was a Xitami server installed in a Windows platform, sitting on a HP server.
It was all new to me. I used a Public DNS Service called Granite Canyon (I’m happy that I can remember the name still). There are no nice interface for me to edit the zone file in their DNS server. It was all done manually from setting A to MX records.
Then, comes the Xitami server that never seems to work. I configured it in blind. Lucky, the whole projects was funded under the research projects by my mentor, Dr. Lee Yee Loon. He is the head of research of UTHN. It was how I managed to learn all this, with his support.
The IT-Lodge project meant to be a Research Portal to bridge researchers and industrial people. We don’t have Blog those days. But, Dr. Lee’s ideas of sharing inspiring us until today.
Posted by: pin on: 02 Aug, 2008
One of my client received an email from someone called Stan Nonin. Apparently, this new phishing works by telling by client that his domain will expire soon next month. Actual fact is, the domain name is actually expiring next year. Stan then made an offer to buy over the domain name.
To verify the actual date of your domain name expiring date, you can use this Free WHOIS tool from DNSStuff.com. Verify now!
If you’re still not sure, leave it as comment here and I will try to verify for you and help!
Posted by: pin on: 29 Jul, 2008
Do you know how to register for a car plate number? Or getting your first insurance policy without a insurance agent? Well, there are many things that we believe it is way too complicated and we usually leave it to others, and have them get it done for us.
This happens to domain name as well. Usually, this was done by web developers or your web & email hosting service providers. Therefore few things that you need to know for the very least!
1. Domain name ownership. How do you know if a domain name was registered under your name? Registration information of a domain name are freely available to the public through WHOIS. For all .my domain name owner, please use MyNIC’s WHOIS for most updated information. For other domain name such as .com, you can try DNS Stuff’s WHOIS. Enter your domain name and search. From the WHOIS result, make sure you name or company name are in the Administrator / Admin Contact section. You must make sure you can access to the email address listed under the Administrator section too!
2. Cost of registration. Generally speaking, .com cost around RM55 a year, while .com.my cost around RM100 a year. Your agent get commissions from the Registrar and their price to you should not exceed the said figures.
3. What is DNS address? When register any domain name, one need to provide the DNS address to complete the registration. Well, it is okey if you’re not sure what is DNS, and your agents can handle this for you. This does not affect ownership. It is more on resolving or pointing (layman terms) of your domain name to specific IP address.
4. Renewal. Well, a responsible agents should always remind you one month before the domain name expires. If you are those last minutes person, chances you can are safe with those slow registrar such as MyNIC (they allow at least 2 weeks before releasing your domain name to the public). While those strict one, will put you under retention and you may need to pay extra to unlock.
5. What documents do I need? Well, a .com domain name do not need any. Anyway, if you are registering a country-based domain name such as .com.my or .com.sg, you need ROC in most case. Well, the rules are continuously reviewed (to a more loosen process, for sure). Domain name is a lucrative business for all registrar, they want your business :)
If you need some suggestion and hints of choosing a good name for your online business:
It’s never too late to change a bad name
A name for your online business…
Posted by: pin on: 24 Jun, 2008
Most of the website can be accessed by adding a www to the front of domain name, and without. For example, you can visit technicalguy.org or www.technicalguy.org to visit the same website.
Technically speaking, website address is used to point to an IP. To direct visitors typing the URL to the correct web server located on different IP. You can view both URL as two different address, pointing to same IP.
In most case, you should define a master one, which I suggest to be the one with www. Then, point the one without to the main one using redirect 301, which is much friendly for search engines.
Posted by: admin on: 01 Jan, 2008
What is a domain name you may ask, some might say is a website URL, some might say is a email domain and some even keep it as a collection.
For me, domain name is an identifier and personalize your lifestyle online as well as in real life. Believe it or not, in the future domain [...]
