Posts Tagged ‘dns’
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
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 contact privacy. It 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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Tags: dns, domain names, domain registration, easydns, privacy, private domain registration, private registration, registration, whois, whois masking
Posted in LuxSci Library: The Technical Side of Email
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Friday, October 11th, 2013
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, we cover the basic concepts involved in Domain Name Service (DNS) and domain registration, so that you can understand how they are involved in email and web hosting services.
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Tags: dkim, dns, dns settings, domain, domain name service, easydns, mail exchange, propagation, registration, spf, sumdomain, time-to-live, ttl, txt, whois
Posted in LuxSci Library: The Technical Side of Email
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
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 Emily, whose email addresses are joe@my-doctors-0n-call.com and emily@my-doctors-on-call.com. The migration is incomplete or needs to be migrated over time, so Joe still needs to get his email at Email Service Provider X, but Emily is all moved and needs to get her email at LuxSci. This is called “Split Domain Routing.”
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Tags: delivery, dns, dns mx, email, email delivery, email forwarding, email migration, mx, mx records, routing, sdr, split domain routing
Posted in Business Solutions, LuxSci Library: The Technical Side of Email, Popular Posts
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Friday, September 14th, 2012
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 their device doesn’t support that (and isn’t sending anything sensitive anyway).
Of course, software can be updated; there are always newer or more expensive devices that have more robust email sending capabilities. However, additional time and/or cost is rarely the ideal solution. If the program/device will not be sending sensitive data and the email stream does not require end-to-end protection (e.g. for HIPAA compliance), then there is a very easy work around to get the device to send your mail.
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Tags: authentication, dns, email delivery, hipaa, login, port 25, smtp, tls
Posted in Business Solutions, Email Marketing
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
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 Name Service) and domain registrations.
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Tags: dns, dns provider, domain names, mx records, name servers, registrar, registration, transfer
Posted in Business Solutions
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