Hosting: June 2006 Archives

I register a lot of domains for different purposes. Sometimes it's simply a case of checking if something works or not.. In the process I've ended up with some really odd domains.. so I was wondering, What's the weirdest or strangest domain you own?

Want to give RoR a go? We're currently beta testing it and I thought some people would like to get something for free on a Friday, so I'm giving away a few hosting accounts and domains (not .ie!) to readers of this blog. Simply email me with the subject line "RoR" and I'll get you hooked up More details on the BK Blog EDIT: We've had an excellent response to this offer and more than enough people have signed up. Watch this space for more news.

It seems that Google's hosting service "Google Pages" has been targetted by "malicious users" (I've always loved that expression) who have been able to upload some form of Trojan. The online giant has been getting quite a bit of flak in security circles of late due to some of its quite dubious decisions regarding email headers and redirectors. It probably won't have any real impact in the long run, but as it is Google it will always attract a certain level of media attention.

We're now offering php5 on our windows 2003 hosting plans as well as adding Coldfusion support

The IEDR has vanished (again!) including whois, website and backend

Has the IE zone become a squatter's paradise? Over the last few months the number of dodgy registrations has grown incrementally. For example, this afternoon I typed in Google.ie into my brower - or at least I thought I did! I ended up on yet another typo squat belonging to Gabor Varga & Jozsef Petho, who also own such classics as ipod.ie. Which domains do they have? Well if you try a few possible typos of the domain google.ie you might guess them: gogle.ie googel.ie googl.ie googol.ie (you can generate your own ones here) Of course the only way that their little scheme would be viable is if they are running ads on the sites that the domains are pointed to. If the ads they are running are either amazon or google ads then they are in breach of the terms of service, as both programs preclude the use of domain names that infringe their intellectuall property rights (try alexa.ie!) For a managed registry IEDR obviously don't seem to be paying that much attention to the obvious abusers.... They will, of course, claim that the registrants were able to justify the registration through the provision of RBNs, but anyone with half a clue can see that these domains are being registered with only one thought in mind - to grab typo / type in traffic So who is worse? IEDR or Eurid?

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