Any time you register a domain name, you must provide valid contact information for the domain owner. This information is published and made publically available in the “WHOIS” database. Anyone can look there to see who owns the domain and contact the domain owner if necessary. Private Domain Registration is also called WHOIS Masking or […]
DNS (Domain Name Service) is as fundamental to email and web services as address books and published street addresses and phone numbers are to other types of communications. Without them, it is difficult to connect with new people and organizations and it is even inconvenient to communicate with your friends and family. In this article, […]
Split Domain Routing (SDR) is a term used to describe how users with email addresses in the same domain can receive emails at two different email service providers. For example, let’s say the company domain is “my-doctors-on-call.com,” and you are moving your email from Email Service Provider X to LuxSci. You have doctors Joe and […]
We field questions daily from customers who need to configure some special software or piece of equipment to send them email, but can’t because their SMTP logins require authentication (e.g. a username and password), or their software/hardware cannot be configured to connect to specific SMTP ports, or maybe because their logins require SSL/TLS for transmission security but […]
When it comes to the domain registration or management of a domain’s DNS records, we find some people are confused. Common questions are: “why is this important?”, “where do I go to make changes?” and “how do I make updates? Here we will attempt to answer these and other questions as they relate to DNS (Domain […]
