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At the time of writing there are only two ICANN accredited domain registrars in the world who accept Bitcoin payments:

1) easyDNS (Canada)

2) Namecheap (USA)

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The other day I came across a great blog post that explained how the author setup a domain name with “catch-all” or “wildcard” email forwarding which enabled him to track which of his online vendors were selling his email address or otherwise spamming him.

This is called using “canary email addresses”, I’ve been doing it for a long time with my own personal email domain.

How Canary Email Addressing Works

You would grab a domain name separate from what you use for your main personal, work, hobby email and websites. It can be anything and it doesn’t have to be pretty because humans will rarely even see it. Read more »

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I just found the following email sent to us in our easyDNS support queue:

From: Global Domains International
Subject: Regarding your domain name neverloseanotherdomain.net
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 17:01:41 +0400
To: hostmaster@easydns.com From: Global Domains International

Hello, I have the .COM version of your domain name
neverloseanotherdomain.net for sale.

Would you be interested in buying the domain for $250 seeing as though
you own the same domain but in another extension ?

We can use Escrow for the transfer and I will cover the fees.
Let me know

Thankyou Shawn.
Global Domains International

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The other day we sent out our primer on the three different types of nameservers and why it serves your interests to know them and what role each one plays. In this post we concern ourselves with Resolvers – those nameservers we all use that do all the DNS lookups we require to conduct our routine activities on the internet.

DNS Changer: A Racket To Intercept Your DNS Queries

Paul Vixie (creator of the bind software that powers the vast majority of nameservers on the internet) recently related the story of “DNS Changer” and the role of his organization in taking it down. It reads like something out of a Tom Clancy novel, only this really happened:
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The best way to understand the difference between DNS servers is to think of them in three groups which correspond to three basic aspects of the domain naming system:

1) Authoritative Nameservers
2) Resolvers
3) Root Servers

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