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Archive for November, 2006

It is our pleasure to inform you that a new server will be added today to our rapidly expanding network of servers. SupremeCenter44 has the latest contemporary hardware specifications:

# Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz E6600 with 4MB Cache
# 4GB of RAM
# 2×500 GB SATA in RAID1 configuration.

The hosting Control Panel has been equipped with another tool, designed to give you more control over your domain’s sender policy.

As you may already know, domains use public records (DNS) to direct requests for different services (web, e-mail, etc.) to the computers that perform those services. All domains have e-mail (MX) records to tell the world what computers receive mail for the domain.

SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework, and is an extension of SMTP that stops e-mail spammers from forging the “From” fields in an e-mail. As SMTP itself does not carry an authenticating mechanism, the SPF extension provides the authentication scheme by specifying which computers are authorized to send e-mail from a specific domain. In order to use SPF, the domain sending e-mails must establish an SPF record that is published in the DNS records.

SPF works by publishing “reverse MX” records to tell the world what machines are authorized to send mail from the domain. When receiving an e-mail message, the recipient can check those records to make sure mail is coming from where it should be coming from. This means that the sender domain is compared to the SPF record for that domain to determine if the e-mail sender is indeed authorized to transmit e-mails from that particular address. If the e-mail comes from a domain that is not authorized, the DNS server will disregard the e-mail request. In other words, SPF prevents people from stealing your e-mail addresses and pretending that it is you who send junk/spam e-mail to other people.

Please note that these settings are for advanced users only!

For more detailed information, you may check the Show/Hide Help in the SPF section itself.

We would like to announce that we will perform a service upgrade. This will cause a scheduled unavailability of the Domain Manager and the Add Services sections of the Control Panel on Thursday, Nov 23 2006, at 7:30 GMT / 2:30 EST. The duration will be less than 5 hours.

You can now perform variuos operations with one or more of your domain names simultaneously. Depending on the current domain status, you can renew registration, edit WHOIS information, edit DNS settings, lock/unlock at the registrar, register name servers and obtain EPP authorization key. Simply use the checkboxes on the left to select domain names and then perform a desired action by clicking on the corresponding button.

The registrar-lock feature is quite useful when you would like to secure your domain name and prevent it from being stolen. To check the current status of the lock, simply click on the icon beside a domain name. You can then lock or unlock it prior to a domain transfer. However, you should always keep your domain names locked.

Most of the top domain registrars now require that each domain name has its own EPP key. The EPP Authorization Key represents a code, which is required when authorizing domain transfers. If you would like to obtain the EPP key for a specific domain name, simply click on the EPP icon. An EPP key is available only for domain names registered with us and with status OK.

For all of the Morning Folks…

The Cast of “A Grand Night For Singing”
will be performing on Good Morning Arizona Saturday!

Saturday, November 4, 2006
KTVK – Channel 3
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

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