Lizzdmc Productions LLC

Archive for November, 2008

Simply unreal…

Apparently, to certain Domain Registrar companies from Asia, there is NOTHING to a trademark! Here is a lovely excerpt from a recent email sent to our offices:

We are Hong Kong Network service Company Limited, a domain name registration center in Asia. Yesterday we received an application from another company for the domain names “lizzdmcproductions”, but later we found your company is their original owner and this may involve your company name or trademark and this may cause confusion between your products and others’, and bring about negative effect on your company. Therefore we decided to inform you of this and check out your attitude toward this matter.

Here was our reply:

We are concerned that the company in question may be engaged in the practice of Cybersquatting, which according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price. We would sincerely appreciate the denial of the company’s application for domain registration under our trademark names. Please inform the company that any attempt to register these names may result in an ICANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) proceeding to be initiated with an approved dispute resolution service provider.

And finally… here was THEIR reply:

We perfectly understand this is your company name or trademark, and that was exactly why you’ve got these emails from us. Domains are different from trademark or company name, as they can be registered worldwide… Once you would like to protect or preserve them by registering ahead due to the importance, one valid application form will be sent to start your prior registration. Or we are going to approve the application from the third party if your company does not lay claim to these domains.

If you would like more information about these scams, check out the following article, Fraudulent e-mail from registrar: case study of a Chinese company. Stay safe, take care, but don’t get taken!

We are happy to inform our customers that new unique software tool is available in the Web Hosting Control Panel’s Domain Manager, Subdomain Manager and File manager sections as of today. The new tool is named Elefante Toolbar and has fully automated functionality allowing one-click installation of any chosen PHP script from the Elefante Installer package (nearly 40 scripts currently available).

And that’s not even slightly exaggerated. Using the new tool, customers need to only choose a desired script, pick a host location to install the script and simply hit the ‘Install’ button! Now that’s exceptionally easy, isn’t it?

This handy functionality is for everyone who desire quick and easy installation of their scripts, without any complicated additional configurations, such as choosing a database, path, password, username, etc. The Elefante Toolbar generates all this information itself and installs the script in the main directory of the chosen host. For customers who wish, however, to specify all these configuration settings themselves, the Elefante Toolbar provides a quick shortcut – Advanced Installation link – to the main interface of the Elefante Installer control panel section where all parameters can be “hand” filled in.

One important issue needing your attention is that, if you try to install a chosen script in a folder where there exists a currently installed script, the Elefante Toolbar will give you two opportunities to choose from – ‘Overwrite’ of the currently installed in the folder script, or ‘Advanced’ installation. The ‘Overwrite’ option will install your chosen script in the folder, but will overwrite all existing files with duplicate names. The ‘Advanced’ installation option will allow you to specify a different folder path for the script installation, while most of the other settings will remain automatically filled in.

With compliments, from our web hosting team

Lizz and Chris joined Tom Booth and a small gathering of old friends last weekend as they took to the hills of Tucson at the Redemptorist Renewal Center for a celebration of the release of his new CD, Captured. Tom performed a concert of the songs on the new album, and hosted a wine and cheese reception after the show. As stated by Tom concerning the songs, “A lot of prayer, work and time went into them – and the recording. Co-produced by Jeff Thomas, Captured is a unique recording that will be released on iTunes and spiritandsong.com on 11/11.”

Remembering the days gone by of college fun, Lizz and Tom have been friends since they played and sang together in a folk group for Mass at the Newman Center at the Unversity of Arizona, where they received their degrees. The gathering this weekend included friends such as, David Burba (Percussion, Mandolin & Dolbro), Tom Burba, John Booth, Leticia (Ruiz), and many others.

Read more about Tom Booth and his new album at the Catholic Online and OCP websites.

“Listeners ‘Captured’ by Highly Anticipated New Album from Tom Booth”
http://www.catholic.org/prwire/headline.php?ID=5363

Tom Booth Bio
http://www.ocp.org/artists/2653

New service is available in our customers’ Web Hosing Control Panel – URL Redirection, as of today! It allows customers to set up a redirection of any desired URL hosted on our servers to another URL – hosted with us or on a remote server. The new functionality has been incorporated in the former ‘Password Protected Areas’ section of the Control Panel, presently named – URL Protect & Redirect.

Both beginners and advanced users can take advantage of the new functionality. The ‘URL Redirect’ tool has a regular redirection option and a more advanced one (allowing redirection of chosen items only – from a given URL – matching defined criteria).

The service is very easy to set up. Customers need to choose first the type of redirection: regular – Redirect Directive, or defined – RedirectMatch Directive, then select a domain or a sub domain hosted with us from the dropdown available and enter the correct directory path (URL) of the web folder that is to be redirected. Very important part of the service is choosing a HTTP Status code – more information about the different codes follows below and is also included in the ‘Help’ section. After the customer has selected the desired URL path to be redirected and its HTTP status code, he/or she needs to type in the URL which the web folder will be redirected to and submit the form. If the customer has chosen to use the ‘RedirectMatch’ service, he/or she will need to fill in one more field – ‘Regular Expression’. This is exactly the place where the customer will have to define the specific conditions that must be matched for the redirection to be performed – the so called ‘regular expressions’. For example, the customer can specify that only files with .gif extension from the selected URL (web folder) should be redirected to the new URL. More details on how to enter the specifications can be found in the attached tooltip.

HTTP Status Codes

Customers should be very precise when selecting an HTTP status code for their URL redirection. Status codes explain the type and purpose of the URL redirection and also perform SEO function, that is – optimize the redirected URL for all search engines. The possible to set HTTP response status codes are – 301, 302, 303, 410:

Permanent redirection: 301 – The requested URL has been assigned a new permanent URL and any future references to this resource should use one of the returned URLs. When a URL returns a 301 redirect, it means that the owner of the link asks users to use the new address, which they’ve been redirected to.

Temporary redirection: 302 – The requested URL resides temporarily under a different URL. When a URL returns a 302 redirect, it means that the owner of the link asks users to continue to use the original address as the redirect might be modified at some time later.

See Other redirection: 303 – The response to the requested URL can be found under a different URL and SHOULD be retrieved using a GET method on that resource. When a URL returns a 303 redirect, it means that the owner of this link redirects the user to another page which is not a substitute of the originally requested page. This method is very popular when you redirect a visitor to a ‘Thank you’ page after filling in a page.

Gone status code: 410 – The requested URL is no longer available on the server and no forwarding address is known. When a URL returns a 410 redirect, it means that the requested page does not exist anymore.

To the attention of all our present and prospective customers! The SiteStudio website design tool, included as a FREE bonus in all our web hosting packages, has been updated to its latest version released – SiteStudio 1.8. The update will come into effect on all our servers in the next two days. The transit to the new version for all our existing customers, using this site building software, will be hassle-free, preserving all their current settings. Updates to customer websites, created with SiteStudio, will be possible by switching to any of the new 80 website templates available in SiteStudio v.1.8.

The basic set of features in SiteStudio v.1.8 includes the following:

• Easy to use: You do not need to know anything about web design or programming, or how to cope with programs such as FTP or Telnet.
• Content and Layout Files – Stored Separately: Very flexible feature! The content is stored separately from the web design files. This way, you can change whenever you want any detail of your layout, without having to re-enter any part of the content.
• Customizable color schemes: You have a number of beautiful ready-to-use color themes available. However, if you feel like having a more personally customized layout, you can change all colors up to your preferences using a point-and-click color picker or typing in the colors as hex numbers.
• Layout templates: SiteStudio currently offers to the users 21 personal website templates and 69 Small Business website templates.
• On-the-fly image generation: Now you can have also professional-looking graphics! Each time you decide to change some color combination, the necessary image is automatically created. No need to bother any more with complex programs, such as Photoshop.
• Uploading Images: With the Image Uploader included in SiteStudio, you can upload images from your online account without ever having to leave your browser. Create now online photo albums, insert images into the page logo, or incorporate images anywhere in the page content or layout!
• A variety of different pages: In a simple step-by-step process you can develop a variety of template-driven pages.
• One-click Publishing Button: You can publish your website with one easy mouse-click! Later on, after making any updates to the website, again one easy click on the ‘Publish’ button will make all your website changes go live again.
• Saving of Information: All your information is saved the moment you enter it. You can log out whenever you need, then come back again later on to continue your work on the website and start from the point where you left previously.
• Flexible setup: SiteStudio can be easily configured to operate with all your current software programs. You can set it up also to utilize user information from your current user base.
• Advanced control: For advanced users, SiteStudio allows changing of the buttons on the website.
• Advanced full screen text/HTML Rich Editor: Windows users only – rich browser-based text editor for Internet Explorer included. You can easily use formatting, styles, tables, bullets and more in your work on the website, and/or copy and paste the most complex tables from a web browser or from any Office application.
• Easy integration of e-shops: For a personal website – you can incorporate an Amazon.com web store. For a business website – you can easily integrate a shopping cart functionality that includes everything – from secure payment gateway to a merchant account issued by One-Stop Merchant Services.
• SiteStudio Admin Panel: SiteStudio comes with its own admin control panel.

SiteStudio is also provided now with a new address (URL), which changes the login procedure for all existing users. To log in SiteStudio, customers will need to go to the ‘SiteStudio’ section in their Web Hosting Control Panels.

We hope that many clients of ours, who want to create websites themselves, but do not possess the necessary technical skills, will take advantage of our FREE newly updated user-friendly site building software- SiteStudio v.1.8.

With Best Regards,
From our web hosting company