After you enable Google Sync for your domain, have each user follow these instructions on their iPhone.

1. Open the Settings application on the iPhone’s home screen.
2. Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
3. Tap Add Account….
4. Select Microsoft Exchange.
     
5. In the Email field, enter your full Gmail address.
6. Leave the Domain field blank.
7. Enter your full Google Apps email address as the Username.
8. Enter your Google Apps password as the Password.
9. Tap Next at the top of your screen. (Choose Cancel if the Unable to Verify Certificate dialog appears.)
10. When the new Server field appears, enter m.google.com.
11. Press Next at the top of your screen again.
     
12. Select the Google Apps services (Mail, Calendar, and Contacts) you want to sync.
13. Unless you want to delete all the existing Contacts and Calendars on your phone, select the Keep on my iPhone option when prompted. This will also allow you to keep syncing with your computer via iTunes.
    

    To sync only the My Contacts group, you must choose to Delete Existing Contacts
    during the Google Sync install when prompted. If you choose to keep
    existing contacts, it will sync the contents of the “All Contacts” group
    instead. If there are no contacts on your phone, the latter will happen
    — the contents of your All Contacts group will be synced.

     

That’s it! You can now access Google Apps from your iPhone. If you have Push enabled on the phone, synchronization starts automatically.
You can also just open the Mail, Calendar or Contacts app and wait a few seconds to start a sync.

Using Google Apps on an Android is really easy. Just add your Google
Apps account to the phone, then select the services you want to use.

Each user should follow these instructions on their own phone.

1. Open the Accounts & Sync Settings screen on your phone. You can do this in Contacts by pressing Menu and touching Accounts, or directly in the Settings application.
   
   

2. The Accounts & Sync Settings screen displays your current sync settings and a list of your current accounts.
3. Touch Add account.
4. Touch Google to add your Google Apps account.
5. Touch Sign in when prompted for your Google Account.
6. Enter your full Google Apps email address as your username, and then enter your password.
7. Select which services you’d like to sync between your phone and Google Apps.

That’s it! You can now use Google Apps from your Android.

Here are the top reasons NOT to have a Flash website:

Adobe Doesn’t Even Use It

That’s right! The very company that makes, markets, and distributes Flash doesn’t have a Flash website! Perhaps because they know its limitations, but we’ll let the irony of this fact speak for itself.

FLASH IS Bad for Search Engines (SEO)

If you want your website to appear in search engines, do not use Flash. Flash pages don’t get indexed properly by search engines due to the fact that search bots simply can’t read Flash content. As far as the search engines are concerned, you might as well have a website that consists of a title, some meta tags, and no other content. It doesn’t matter how pretty your website is or how fluid the animations are if no one will ever find it.

Nowadays, Flash can even hurt your search rankings. Many search engines have begun blacklisting websites that have meta data unrelated to the website’s actual content, because such websites are regarded as being deceptive in their attempts to gain web traffic. As far as the search engines are concerned, Flash websites have keywords, but no content, which commonly results in blacklisting due to the perceived discrepancy.

Limited Mobile Viewing

As the iPhone, Blackberry, and other smartphones have skyrocketed in popularity and usage, more and more websites are being accessed on the go from mobile web browsers. But guess what? Most mobile web browsers have no Flash support, so they can’t display Flash websites at all. Those that can (in theory) are still limited by the memory and processing power of the mobile device and will often choke on Flash websites because of their increased bandwidth and CPU demands.

No Linking or Bookmarking

Every page of a Flash website has the exact same web address, or URL. In other words, no matter which page you’re viewing on a Flash website, the URL is exactly the same. On normal websites, you can bookmark and link directly to specific pages using unique URLs. This makes it easy to find your way back or to share these pages with others. Without unique URLs, it’s impossible to bookmark pages, and you’d have to include click-by-click instructions to help someone else find their way to a specific page after sending them a link to your website.

No Back Button

Suppose someone is clicking their way through your website, finds themselves on a page they didn’t mean to click to, and decides they want to go back. This is where the back button comes in on a normal website. On a Flash website, the back button is either disabled altogether, or it will take them to the website they were viewing before yours! Eventually, they’ll have to figure out how to get back another way, such as by reloading the whole website and starting over. This is far from ideal and can seem quite inhospitable to your website visitors.

Poor Design Standards

The bells and whistles that come with Flash almost always result in gratuitous design abuse when it comes to websites. Successful webmasters understand that the Internet is a standards-based system. Navigation goes here, content goes there, a click does this, a drag does that, and so on. It’s a standard user experience that shouldn’t be re-invented on a whim. Most website visitors are annoyed by broken usability standards, and older or less experienced website visitors will often give up and leave.

This isn’t to say that pushing design boundaries is always a bad thing. In fact, it’s the only way innovation can come about. But the ratio of “revolutionizing” design change to “senseless and gratuitous” design change leans far to the latter, and too many webmasters who try to create something unique and edgy only make their websites unusable as a result. Nowhere is this phenomenon more prominent than with Flash websites.

Content Loading

On a normal website, content is instantly viewable as each page or image downloads to the web browser. On a Flash website, however, the entire website has to download before any part of it is viewable. This is the reason 99% of Flash websites start with a loading screen. Compare this to the old days of web video when you had to wait for the entire video to download before it would start playing. Nowadays, streaming video is the standard, because it allows the video to play instantly while it downloads. Flash is incapable of streaming, however, so Flash websites will always behave like the old, non-streaming videos that no one misses.

Splash and Intro Pages

Splash pages are those annoying intro screens that you often see before clicking “skip intro” or “enter here” to access the real website. Splash pages nearly disappeared a decade ago for their inherent uselessness, but – in a step backwards for web design and usability – many Flash designers have developed a unique dependency on them. Most often, splash pages are used to give visitors a choice between viewing the Flash or non-Flash version of a website. Putting aside the utter pointlessness of having two versions of the same website, this creates an extra and unnecessary hoop for your website visitors to jump through in order to get to your content.

Basic Text Functions Broken

On Flash websites, it’s impossible to make use of basic text functions like copy-and-paste, finding text, or changing text size to improve readability. There’s no right-click menu to facilitate these tasks, and keyboard shortcuts don’t work with Flash. Also, since the text displayed by Flash websites is unreadable by web browsers, visitors who depend on screen readers due to vision impairments might as well be staring at a blank screen.

Poor Usability Standards

While most of these twelve reasons involve the usability failures of Flash websites, this section specifically addresses how Flash designers typically break or ignore standard user interface elements of the Web.

Internet users are accustomed to certain user interface elements, and they don’t want to learn or adapt to anything new just to use your website. Scrollbars and buttons should look and respond in a familiar way. Navigation menus and forms should behave predictably. While most Flash designers will forego such standards for the sake of being different, time-tested usability standards will always offer a better user experience than a custom widget cooked up by a well-meaning Flash designer over the weekend.

Bandwidth and CPU Demands

Flash websites can bring older computers to a crawl, and they can take much longer to load with sub-broadband Internet connections. While this may only affect a small portion of your intended audience, why alienate anyone by denying them a good experience while viewing your website? Remember that if it takes too long to load, or if it runs too slowly on their computers, visitors will often leave your website before they’ve even seen it.

Dependency on 3rd-Party Plugins

Most people forget that Flash is a proprietary technology owned by Adobe. In fact, Flash websites can’t even be displayed without Adobe’s free Flash Player plugin. While it’s generally accepted that over 90% of today’s Internet users already have the necessary plugin, the rest of the population is either excluded or forced to download and install it. This may be a minor issue for most Internet users today, but it bears mentioning nonetheless.

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As defined by security experts, domain name hijacking occurs when an attacker falsifies the registration data for a domain name, transferring that name away from its rightful registrant and gaining full administrative and operational control over the domain.

The brief analyzes how attackers use a wide range of techniques to hijack domain names, from spyware and keystroke loggers to “social engineering,” in which scammers impersonate registrants, registrars, or other entities in the chain of trust in order to gain access to passwords and personal information.

Regardless of the technique used, the end-result for registrants is often severe. Once an attacker has full control of a domain name, they have free reign to use it for any number of nefarious purposes, from creating their own scam websites, to hosting illegal and dangerous content, to extorting the original owner.

While the danger of domain name hijacking is significant, it is a threat that can be significantly reduced with proper planning and mitigation techniques, such as:

• Researching a registrar’s security offerings — and taking advantage of the tools they offer — can go a long way toward mitigating risk of hijacking;
• Employing password best practices for domain name registrations;
• Determining if a registry is using two-factor authentication to protect registrants; and
• Utilizing services such as Verisign’s Registry Lock, which allows registrants to set the conditions under which their registration information can and cannot be changed.

Verisign publishes the Domain Name Industry Brief to provide Internet users throughout the world with significant statistical and analytical research and data on the domain name industry and the Internet as a whole. Copies of the 2011 fourth quarter Domain Name Industry Brief, as well as previous reports, can be obtained at:http://www.verisigninc.com/DNIB.

The seller appears to have been a Riccardo Barbieri of Spain.

In another sale coming through this morning, Frank Schilling Name Administration sold the the domain name SlotCity.com for $56,000. The buyer is a company called DragonPlay.Com out of Israel.

ZodiacSigns.com was also sold for just $10,000.

Among other uses, reverse DNS can help security-conscious users and professionals verify that the relationship between a domain and an IP address is valid, which helps prevent spam, phishing, and other nefarious activities.

When you manage your server with WHM from cPanel, it is easy to setup reverse DNS records for your IP addresses. Just follow these steps:

Create a reverse DNS zone file

1. Login to WHM and navigate to DNS Functions -> Add a DNS Zone
2. Type in your IP address (example – 192.168.254.254)
3. Enter the reverse DNS name (example -254.128.192.in-addr.arpa). For instructions on adding the appropriate reverse DNS name, see naming an IPv4 zone and naming an IPv6 zone.

Edit the reverse DNS zone file

Now, you will need to create each PTR record.

1. From the main WHM page, go to DNS Functions-> Edit DNS Zone
2. Under where it says “Add New Entries Below This Line”, enter the corresponding octet or nibble (the final number in the IP address). Example: 254. In the drop down menu, select “PTR”.
3. Enter the associated domain name for that IP address
4. Repeat for each IP address

To check that your reverse DNS is working, you can type this from the command line:

host 192.168.254.254

and the output should look like this:

254.254.168.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer www.yourdomain.com

Alternatively, you can find numerous free reverse DNS lookup tools on the web. For more information about setting up reverse DNS in WHM, see the cPanel documentation.

IANA, is an entity that oversees the functions — management of the Domain Name System (DNS), allocation of IP addresses, and other technical functions of the Internet. Shortly after ICANN was created, the US Department of Commerce (DoC) signed a contract with the new organization to administer IANA and its functions. They called it the IANA contract. Currently, IANA is operated by ICANN.

The NTIA issued a request last year for proposals to manage the functions of the IANA, but on Saturday it cancelled the request because none of the bids met its requirements.

ICANN had bid to continue operating the functions, but its proposal, like those of three other companies, was rejected. The NTIA plans to reissue the request for proposals (RFP) at a date yet to be determined. In the meantime, ICANN has been granted a six-month stay of execution to continue to manage IANA until the end of September this year as none of the bidders for the role met its requirements. The new contract was up for renewal in March.

During the renewal process, the NTIA added new requirements to the IANA RFP, including the need for structural separation of policy making and implementation, and a robust company-wide conflict-of-interest policy. Also, provisions were made reflecting more respect for local country laws, and a series of consultation and reporting requirements were added to increase transparency and accountability to the international community.

ICANN has a history of controversy with the US Government, notably over the implementation of .xxx domains, and its unwillingness to allow generic top level domains to be vetoed by any government.

Organizations have protested the decision feeling that it could be too easy for US authorities to start policing a number of generic TLD services. Websites that end in .org or .com might have to abide by the rules set by American powerbrokers. Considering the recent discussions about SOPA and PIPA, this doesn’t sit well with a lot of Internet users.

While SOPA and PIPA seem to have been shelved for the time being, there is still a lot of discussion about what federal lawmakers will do about cyber crime. Most people agree something needs to be done, but many computer commentators felt that acts like SOPA and PIPA actually didn’t address the root of the problem. The idea that legitimate Internet users registering their .com, .net and .org domains with various domain name companies would be affected by legislation caused privacy concerns to be trending topics all over the Web. That being said, international legislation doesn’t look to be any saner than legislation on the federal level.

There have been those that want to turn domain name policing over to the United Nations and the International Telecommunications Union. Others have talked about turning over power from ICANN to a new inter-governmental panel. These options seem just as problematic, and could be a way for large international bureaucracies to attempt to micromanage personal Internet usage. Recently, many people have turned against the ACTA treaty which already too has an Internet petition against it.

There has been a good deal of discussion about cyber criminals in Eastern Europe. Sadly, it may come as no surprise that Russian .ru domains have been misused. In fact, some reports suggest that the .ru top-level domain is one of the most abused when it came to a certain class of botnet controller. The organization that oversees the domain has started to enforce the rules, which has caused cyber criminals to flee. However, they have reportedly found some refuge in the .su top-level domain.

In September 1990, the USSR was granted .su for Soviet Union. It might seem very strange that this domain continues to exist today, but there are no real restrictions on who is allowed to register. In 2001, .su managers apparently started accepting more new registrations. However, it has been argued that this violates policies set forth by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. In 2007, lobbyists pressed to keep the domain open. By 2008, registrations were increasing. A few legitimate organizations that got their start in the old USSR are actually still using the domain. The Sternberg Astronomical Institute at Moscow University still uses it, for instance.

It’s definitely clear that there is a serious problem with pirates and scammers, but any legislation designed to protect businesses from cyber criminals needs to be careful to avoid harming legitimate users. Perhaps it might be best to simply provide better enforcement of the current framework as opposed to creating new laws. Even some grassroots efforts, like the .xxx TLD designed to section off sexually explicit material, seem to be having some problems. There were also critics that were afraid that certain websites would be forced to move to the .xxx domain or that reputable companies would flock to buy them only to protect their brands.

The increase of 5.9 million domain names equates to a growth rate of 2.7 per cent over the third quarter of 2011, and marks the fourth straight quarter with greater than 2 per cent growth. Registrations have grown by more than 20.4 million, or 10 per cent, since the fourth quarter of 2010, said the report.

The .com and .net Top Level Domains (TLDs) experienced aggregate growth in the fourth quarter, reaching a combined total of 113.8 million names. This represents approximately a 2 per cent increase in the base over the third quarter of 2011 and an 8 per cent increase over the same quarter in 2010.

New .com and .net registrations totaled 7.9 million during the quarter. This is a 4 per cent increase year-over-year in new registrations. The .com/.net renewal rate for the fourth quarter was 73.5 per cent, up from 73.3 per cent for the third quarter, the report added.

Verisign’s average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load during the quarter was 64 billion, with a peak of 117 billion. Compared to the previous quarter, the daily average increased 8 per cent and the peak grew 51 per cent.