Got a great idea for a website? Check. Have the skills to implement the website? Check. Have a hosting provider lined up? Check. Know what you’re going to do for DNS? At this point, a large number of website...
Archive - July 2019
Is adding the domain name of your website in directory listing sites a bad practice? Is it a black hat or white hat or something in between? They always say that the proof of the pudding is on the eating and it is applicable in...
Blogs dominates the web now. It is the easiest web platform to set up and tons of free blog providers are at our disposal with built in features for interactivity and search engine optimization. The fact that more than 15% of the...
MX records have been around since they were introduced in Internet Request For Comments (RFC) 973 in January of 1986, replacing two other DNS record types, MD (Mail Delivery) and MF (Mail Forwarding). MX stands for “mail...
One particular aspect not to be overlooked by web developers is to make sure that the website loads fast. It is a common problem for eCommerce sites such as those developed using the Magento framework. I recently worked with a...
As described in RFC 1034 and detailed in RFC 1035 back in 1987, a CNAME, or Canonical Name, DNS resource record is an alias for a host. By example, let’s take a look at a fictitious host (sigma) in a fictitious domain...
The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) is a policy established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to put some order to disputes between people who have purchased certain domain...
You need to call upon the UDCP when you have a domain name dispute. All registrars in the .biz,.com, .info, .name, .net, and .org top-level domains follow the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDCP). Registrars...
ICANN is an international private-public partnership founded in 1998. ICANN is a non-profit. They manage the internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), including both generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain names and...