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    Dealing with incomming junk mail

    I have a domain which is receiving lots of junk mail; perhaps "backscatter" from some spamming. I thought I'd share my experience dealing with it. This was seriously hammering my server: top - 02:09:37 up 60 days, 10:11, 1 user, load average: 22.36, 85.27, 83.81 Tasks: 197 total, 2...
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    MP - Domain Leasing?

    Reading though the Conservative's "Right to Know" forms (There Parliamentary Expenses) I came accross Tony Baldry - MP for Banbury's entry for: That's only between April and June 2008 - 3 months. So is he renting tonybaldry.org.uk for £7531.76 a year from the registrant h a e c c e i t a...
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    Facelesspeople.com

    From the Telegraph today: 'Faceless people' revealed as marketing stunt for new Lotus Eagle - Telegraph The phrase: "internet directory WhoIs" grated with me; a "whois lookup" would have been accurate. I looked up this "Claudine Beaumont" the author of the article and quickly got my...
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    winadevonpropertywithfishing.co.uk/

    Oldborough Retreat A fishing licence is £25 I just entered the competition which looks legitimate - coverage in the national papers today. Though they could increase the appearance of legitimacy by naming their solicitors, and in the interests of transparency a counter of number of tickets...
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    MySql problems

    Following a Red Hat Linux server restart (which may well have enacted some updates) I am unable to start/restart mysql: Simply typing "mysql" gives me I've looked through various forums etc. and can't find an answer, I've edited /etc/my.cnf to point to both mysql.sock files I can find...
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    Recuitment Expert Required

    I am looking for someone with some experience of recruitment. Ideally online and scientific, but certainly in the "executive search" mode of operating. I am considering starting a new venture and would like to run my concept past someone with experience in the area. There may be an...
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    New UK Legislation

    On the Thursday before Christmas a European law, the First Company Law Amendment Directive, was brought into UK Law by the The Companies (Registrar, Languages and Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2006 - http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/uksi_20063429_en.pdf Source...
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    Outdated Info On Confirmation of Registration

    I have received confirmation of registration letters from Nominet in respect of some domains which have just had their registration changed to me. The "Registrant's agent:" field on the letters is populated with significantly outdated information, and is therefore inconsistent with the...
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    Summary of Scope consultation

    [url=http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/9587_Summary_of_Scope_consultation_responses.pdf]A summary of the Scope consultation[url] has been published. Minor quibble - it is written as if it was a consultation of members, it wasn't it was a public consultation. The summary includes quotes...
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    Channel Four News - Benjamin Cohen

    Benjamin Cohen of iTunes.co.uk/soJewish fame is technology correspondent on Channel Four news - he's just been on tonight - incredibly nervous - and worse getting his facts wrong saying that .co.uk domains are controlled from/by the USA. You'd have thought he'd have known who Nominet were, what...
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    Overloaded with spam

    I've just aquired a domain which is reciveing a huge amount of spam, so much that even though I'm directing all email to :blackhole in cpanel, the server can't cope. Any ideas? Can I remove the MX line in the zone file?
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    Who's running Vista

    Hi, Just wondering who here's running Vista? I'm generally interested .. but also: I've got a vista only website bug that I'd like to PM to someone who's got it to see if they can help..
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    Review: Webcameron.org.uk

    webcameron According to today's Guardian writing about this site: Can the site really be open given a secret and apparantly selective moderation policy? Is the interaction/community element really any good? (All the comments in one place and not associated with any posts). Some advice...
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    Blacklisted word

    For some reason the word "i n f o r m a t i o n" is on the blacklist for getting turned into "***********". (At the time of writing there's *** in the second quotes were I've typed the word in the first quotes normally)
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    New Home Office Site

    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/23082006/80-91/child-protection-site-contained-porn-links.html The Home Office Regged : http://thinkuknow.co.uk/ Advertised it on the radio as "Think you know .co.uk" When people type it in - using the proper spelling of "You" they get...
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    Registrant not / no longer a legal entity

    Is there any precident for Nominet deleting a domain name registration which is essientialy nonsense - ie. doesn't have a legal entity for the registrant? Will they always delete such registrations on request? If not how do they decide?
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    Wanted editing and proofreading domains

    Please PM or post here any domains related to editing and proofreading which you are willing to sell, along with prices. Include any stats/earnings if available. I intend to aquire a domain for a new site in this area shortly.
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    UKReg / Fasthosts

    Currently I'm experencing both no response at: http://www.ukreg.com And - no response from a number of domains using UKREG/fasthosts forwarding services. Have observed this for 15+ minutes now.
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    Non-Human Registrant

    It's not a good idea to use your Cat as a registrant: http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/decisions/671304.htm
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    Registrant type

    One of my registrars (UKreg) doesn't allow me to set the registrant type, the field is always set to "UK Individual". Due to this I've inadvertently registered a couple of domains with the registrant being a UK Limited Company, but the registrant type being "UK Individual", and made other...
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