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Dangers of Private Domain Registrations and WHOIS Masking

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Any time you register a domain name, you are required to provide valid contact information for the owner of the domain. This information is published and made publically available in the "WHOIS" database. Anyone can look there to see who owns the domain and to contact the domain owner if necessary.

Private Domain Registration, or WHOIS Masking, or contact privacy, is a service offered by some domain registrars where they will either (a) not publish the domain owner’s contact details, or will (b) publish "masked" details — i.e. details that point to anonymous names and addresses at the registrar.

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Popularity: 55% [?]

Tags: dns, easydns, privacy, private registration, registration, whois, whois masking
Posted in TechNotes

How Much Email Security Does Your Organization Need?

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Every organization is different in the way that it communicates internally and with its vendors and customers and in the kinds of information that it sends over the Internet. LuxSci has developed a simple free questionaire that will help us to assess your security and privacy needs and to provide recommendations to you as to the best ways to meet them.

See our: Email Security Analysis Survey

Popularity: 21% [?]

Tags: email security, hipaa, privacy, secure email, survey
Posted in Business Solutions

Medical Privacy Agreement

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

LuxSci has a new Business Associate addendum to its Master Services Agreement that covers medical privacy concerns for all clients that are subject to the HIPAA regulations. This contract addendum is automatically included by reference in the contracts for all new accounts. It is also available to any existing account that would like to have it added to its current contract.

Download the PDF.

Popularity: 26% [?]

Tags: hipaa, medical, privacy
Posted in New Feature Announcements