(update 6th April 2088 – Customers who were affected who require the official service interruption notice, please contact support.) If you’re a customer then you’ve seen this I hope. I sent it to all of our customer account contacts earlier this afternoon. Of course, you may have been affected and we’re not on the distribution list,… Keep Reading
Domain names. We are a domain name registrar. There are top level registrars. There are registrants. This is a small piece on the lifecycle of a domain – specifically a GTLD – one of the old school ones … so .com .org .uk and so on. Today I saw a diagram that illustrated superbly how… Keep Reading
I had an enquiry yesterday regarding the necessity for encrypted emails to be GDPR compliant. O_O It was so out of the blue that it left me speechless for a moment, before realising where the request was coming from. Sure enough, a further Google/DuckDuckGo/Bing/Weapon Of Choice suggests that this is a common issue or query… Keep Reading
We are seeing more and more people putting their sites through the mill to see how they shape up during a shakedown. Be it automated vulnerability scanning for compliance needs (PCI or Cyber Essentials for example) or full on active penetration testing – these highlight the loose ends, failures, and anything that needs addressing through… Keep Reading
This is a short article on the use of /etc/hosts – often referred to by our engineers as an edit, entry, or change to your “etcetera hosts” file. It is the simplest, most reliable, long lived solution to site previewing. The /etc/hosts file overrides DNS lookups. As such the world can look up your website… Keep Reading
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