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Domain Privacy!!

December 28th, 2010

After weeks of relentless searches and constant brainstorms you finally found the perfect domain name. Yes, you believe this is the “one”, the domain of the century, the crown jewel, and the rarest of finds. It was hidden away deep off the coast in the forest of .com’s perfectly preserved under mountains of creative word combinations waiting for you to give it the breath of life. You quickly go to version-next.com to register your additional domain all the while looking over your shoulder making sure that no one attempts to steal your newly found treasure. Once registered you tuck it safely inside your horde of domains. You are waiting for the perfect economic weather to launch your domain off the port of obscurity and direct its course into the deep waters of hosting. The only problem is that in your excitement to charter new waters you forgot to protect yourself from pirates. Yes, there are scammers, spammers, fraudsters, hackers, thieves, and trolls out there that want to steal and plunder upon your treasured .com. You soon realize that without provocation you are under attack because you failed to protect yourself by adding domain privacy.

What is domain privacy protection?
Simply put, this is a service provided by versionnext and many registrars to protect the domain owner’s personal information. This protects the registrant from having their personal contact information displayed to the public. Whenever you register a domain your contact information associated with that domain is displayed in the WHOIS database.

Why do I need domain privacy protection?
Privacy protection substitute’s generic information in place of the details associated with the domain registrant (you). If your domain has privacy protection services then your personal contact details will not be displayed in the public WHOIS database. Domain privacy helps protect you primarily against spammers or identity thieves who would use your personal information for personal gain or unsolicited purposes.

How do I sign up for domain privacy protection?
Domain privacy is available not only at signup but can be added to any of your existing domains at any time. Simply contact us to add domain privacy protection. This Privacy Protection Service absolutely FREE of cost for our clients!

If you have any questions about how to add domain privacy or how it works please feel free to contact us 24/7 and one of our representatives would be happy to assist you.

We would recommend all businesses protect their online identity.

You can order Domain Privacy on any .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz or .name domain name. To order now simply visit the add-ons section of your customer control panel. If you are a new customer  click here.

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Benefits of SMS GatewaySMS Applications

May 5th, 2010

SMS Gateway – Creative Web Designers can manage simultaneous connections to one or more SMSCs, supporting the major SMSC protocols, including SMPP, UCP/EMI, CIMD2, HTTP, and/or GSM modems. Creative Web Designers handles the low level protocol details, and makes it easy to switch between different providers, as well as making it easy to add additional connections for situations where it is advantageous to route messages for different countries via different providers.

Creative Web Designers offers simple SMS gateway connectivity for those who need to SMS-enable their systems, websites, or applications. Using Creative Web Designers API (Application Programming Interface) integration is fast, simple and reliable.
Our API is immediately multicast messaging enabled, allowing integration to any front-end or legacy system, with a direct connection into Creative Web Designers global gateways.
Learn more about each of our API connectivity options below:

  • HTTP/S API
    Our most popular connection, HTTP is one of the simpler forms of communication to the Creative Web Designers API. It is used in the form of an HTTP/Internet Post.
  • SMTP [E-mail to SMS] API
    Another firm favourite, the SMTP API allows messages that are sent via e-mail to be converted to SMS. Popular with customers who already have an e-mail messaging system in place.
  • SMPP API
    Our most robust connection, suitable for customers who send large volumes of traffic. Creative Web Designers offers a global SMPP connection using the SMPP 3.3 standard. Customers are required to have SMPP client software in place, and unlike our other APIs there are minimum volume requirements when using SMPP.
  • XML API
    If you are familiar with XML, Creative Web Designers offers an XML interface with its own set of DTDs. Currently supports XML over HTTP.
  • FTP API
    Suitable for once off, high volume messaging. The FTP upload facility allows customers to upload text files to Creative Web Designers FTP site, and have the files automatically dispatched to message recipients.
  • COM Object API
    Popular with windows-based developers, the Creative Web Designers COM API object’s rich set of methods and definitions make it easy for a user to integrate SMS sending into their programs or ASP pages.
  • http://www.version-next.com/bulk-sms/index.html

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What is WHOIS?

April 28th, 2010

WHOIS (pronounced “who is”) is an Internet database that contains information on domain names including the name servers associated with the domain name, the domain registrar and the Administrative, Billing and Technical contacts with postal and email addresses.

Each domain registrar maintains a WHOIS database with all contact information for the domain names hosted on their servers. The InterNIC WHOIS database, on the other hand, is vast and has information on all .com, .net and .org domain names.

The WHOIS is also a tool or an application which searches the domain name information contained in WHOIS databases. It is generally used to check either the availability of a domain name or the ownership of a domain name. The tool requires you to enter a domain name such as webdevelopersnotes.com (without the www prefix). If the domain is available you will be informed of the same, else, you would be displayed one or more details:

  1. The registrant information. Details of the person who registered the domain name including their postal and email addresses and phone number.
  2. The contacts: Each domain name is associated with three contacts – Administrative, Billing and Technical. In most cases, all the three would belong to the same person (the registrant). Note: The technical contact might be of the company hosting the domain name.
  3. The creation and expiration date of the domain name
  4. The name servers associated with the domain name

If you have booked your domain through a friend, colleague, relative or a web developer, check the WHOIS to determine if the domain indeed belongs to you. Trust me; I have had enough experience with clients. In fact, a couple of them lost the domain name because they had had it registered through “nephew John” who got involved with college and had no recollection of registering the domain name. Since the all important username and password used for managing the domain name where lost (or forgotten), the domain name expired.

Don’t let this happen to you. Check the WHOIS database to confirm the ownership of the domain name. If you don’t find your name and your email in the Administrative contact, ask the person who had booked the name to transfer it to you. This is a simple process but might take a few days to complete; it requires active participation from both you and the person who registered the domain name.

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