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Excerpt: The Domain Name System (DNS) is a website’s primary identification scheme. Other identification schemes include the IP address and the autonomous system number. All these identification schemes can be viewed by using the WHOIS protocol, which accesses a website’s WHOIS record. The Domain Name Users remember a website because of its domain name. Unlike the IP address and the autonomous system number, both of which are made up of a series of numbers, the domain name can be made up of both numbers and letters. This leads to interesting combinations such as Ninetynine99.com, norestfortheweary.com, and buydomainnamesfor70.com. Domain names are usually sold by domain…

Is Your Domain Name a Trademark Infringement? is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: There is no doubt that the internet is big business and is an attractive prospect for the majority of companies worldwide. Your web site is more than likely the first stop for potential customers in the local and global market place replacing the days of old when the yellow pages directory was dominant. And how do customers find your web site? They type the domain name into their web browser after seeing it on a business card or printed medium or they will click on a search engine listing and click through to your web site. Like a telephone number, your domain name…

The Importance of Auto Renewing your Domain Name is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: Cybersquatting affects millions of businesses and individuals every year costing unaccountable financial losses and more importantly losses in terms of online reputation. Nearly all the people I speak to have never really thought much about cybersquatting and its consequences as they have never experienced it, but you only have to experience it once to understand what a big problem it really is and the effect it has. The dictionary definition of cybersquatting is: The registration of a well-known brand or company name as an Internet domain name in the hope of selling it at a later date With the current advent and popularity of…

Beware of Cybersquatters – Your Domain is Important Now More than Ever. is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: The other day I wrote a post about privacy whois on domain name records and mentioned one of the upsides of privacy whois, and that is that you benefit from the protection of scammers not being able to find out your details to contact you directly. Well here is an example of one of the many scams . Its called the “domain appraisal scam”. Below is a screenshot of my inbox this morning showing 3 emails from the same company, a company calling themselves “Domain Sale LLC”. The body of their obviously automated email is as follows: “Dear sir, we are interested to purchase…

Domain Appraisal Scams is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: So what exactly is domain name privacy and why would you need it? Domain name records more commonly known as the “WhoIs” record are stored online in the public domain, which means like land registry details, the details of the registrant is available online for anyone to see and lookup. Of course this means that anyone looking to contact you or find where you are, they simply look up your WhoIs record and take the information. It should be noted that ICANN regulations state that you are not permitted to falsify WhoIs information, so putting false information is not allowed and is…

Protect Your Privacy When You Register Your Domain is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas