The domain name business, sometimes referred to as the confusing cousin of the web hosting business, has some odd slang tied to it.  One phrase you may or may not of heard of is domain sniping.
So what does a domain sniper do?  This is when somebody registering a domain name as soon as the [...]

ICANN stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.  You can think of them as the overloads of domain names.  The purpose of ICANN is to coordinate everything about domains.  They are like the godfather of the domain name world.
You can read more about the mission and goals of ICANN here:
http://www.icann.org/en/about/
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From head to toe, from pillar to post this podcast yet again delivers a little something for everybody. From dissecting ICANN to help with turning Gmail into your default e-mail client for all of your e-mail addresses, this week’s hosting podcast promises to deliver the goods*.
Format might have changed a little but one thing [...]

Is it just me, or does it seem like there is a lot of spam talk these days?  Here I have for you two of the hottest spam stories of the moment, and a little talk about hacking and passing the blame to round things up.
King of Spam to be Sentenced
You would think that [...]

Did you know the peaceful Swiss people have problems with spam?  The king of all spam has also met his fate.  Spams not the only thing we got on the line up today, there is a lot of hosting news, and information coming to you.  So stand back, there is a Web Hosting Show coming [...]

Here is an interesting idea.  Would you like to have the domain name yourname.yourbusiness?
How about firstname.lastname?
Well thanks to those wacky and crazy people at ICANN and a few bottles of expensive French wine, we might see that go into effect sooner than you would think.  In an unanimous vote held in Paris, France last [...]

From coast to coast, and all around the web hosting world. I can’t promise you you’ll be a millionaire if you listen to this week’s show. I can’t even make you better looking. What I can do for you is to make everything from server farms to domain name registrations make a [...]

To those outside of the Online world, cybersquatting sounds like part of a work out routine you’d do with a digital Richard Simmons.  I can promise you though that this is not the case.  It is actually a very important issue that comes up in the world of domain name registrations.
It is registering, trafficking in, [...]

ICANN has sat up and taken notice when it comes to the shady practices of “domain tasting”. I hate to be one to call myself a profit, but back on podcast 138 I am pretty sure I said:
Where is ICANN with this type of practice? I say if they were all over RegisterFly [...]

The hosting doctor is in and is ready to see you now. There are several sicknesses out there in the web hosting world that could bring you down.
I’ll inform you about those, and let you know of a few hyper-linked medications to check out too. The Web Hosting Show includes no side effects [...]