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(The Hosting News) – Computer users around the globe know that problems associated with spammers and identity theft are growing in number and severity. Today, SkGold Hosting, a web hosting company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, announced a program they believe can help to slow the spread of online identity theft: Private Domain Registration.
SkGold Hosting wants web users to know that when they use the company’s Private Domain Registration system, the information associated with their domain will remain safe from individuals with prying eyes and malicious intentions. The firm believes so strongly in their purpose that they are offering Private Domain Registration / ID Protection system to customers at no additional cost.
Sergey Krongold, CEO of SkGold Hosting believes far too many domain name owners are unaware of the threat to their personal information posed by spammers. “They harvest your first and last name, telephone number and email address from domain registries, and before you know it, they are using your identity to do their dirty work.”
Private Domain Registration at SkGold Hosting works this way. The sophisticated system creates two “identities” for each customer. The first, kept in a secure file, is an actual record of the customer’s contact information; this ensures that legitimate online business can go on as planned. The second, generic, file returns dummy information to anyone who makes an effort to harvest the customer’s name, address and email without permission. When the bad guys make contact, the ID Protection system scans their message to weed out UBEs (unsolicited bulk emails).
For more information on Private Domain Registration, visit http://www.skgoldhosting.com/private-domain-registration.htm
A good ID Protection package can help domain name owners to avoid the headache and hassle of defending their online reputation in the huge online world of social media. In addition, it can save the considerable amount of time required to manage mailboxes and filter spam. That is the idea behind Private Domain Registration at SkGold Hosting.
About SkGold Hosting
SkGold Hosting is a Calgary-based Canadian Web Hosting company. Founded in 2003, the company is a division of SkGold Marketing Ltd., which provides Internet marketing services such as Web design, Web hosting and SEO (search engine optimization) for individuals and small- and medium-sized businesses.
One of the first and most annoying things that can happen to a new web site owner is being blasted with spam. There is a dilemma presented when wanting to have potential customers or clients contact you or your company. Either your email has to be publicly posted or you will need to enable a form to allow quick and easy contact. When you do implement either choice, spammers will come and they will do as much damage as is possible.
Email link – bad idea
The first thing that should be done is to toss out the idea of publicly placing your email address in any form that can be clicked as a link. Using a linked email address publicly is an open invitation to spammers. Nothing can be more unpleasant than having to start off your business day wading through hundreds upon hundreds of spam content in your email in-box. If you must use this route, simply place your email in text only – this will make it harder for a potential spammer as they will have to physically copy and paste your address into any email. Inconvenience is the bane of the spammer.
Contact form – can be attacked
If you’ve decided to place a contact form anywhere within your web site, you’ll want to enable some type of security to ensure that an actual human is utilizing the form. This sounds simple enough because, after all, the purpose of the form is to gather human information. However, most email forms have a standard “name”, “email”, “subject”, “content” style to them that is easily recognized and exploited by spammers. Using this standard information, spammers use automated systems to attack a contact form – computer to computer. What can stump them is requiring something that only a human can input or answer and that isn’t part of the standard email form. This is where Captcha comes in.
Contact form with Captcha – better idea
Captcha is a type of test that is used to ensure human interaction. The premise behind Captcha is that computers should not be able to solve something that requires human input. The very early implementations of Captcha were simple generations of a word or series of letters with some small amount of warping. However, spammers quickly adjusted to this warping and this initial Captcha implementation had to be abandoned. Modern Captcha uses two to three regular words that are segmented and have lines through the words making it much more difficult to automatically guess via a computer system.
This all culminates into a small bit of either PHP or Javascript that is placed within your form before the submit button coding. After filling out the rest of the form, a user must then enter the correct words generated within the Captcha coding. You can set the form to lock out a user after a certain number of errors thus staving off the possible attack of spammers for yet another day.
Conclusion
Of course, the simplest way to avoid spammers at all is by not allowing any sort of email contact within your site. But this is not a feasible option – after all, you have your web site online for the purpose of contacting new and old customers or clients. So, before putting your email form online, use a bit of quick security and incorporate Captcha.
Bronx, New York – (The Hosting News) – May 29, 2009 – Web hosting provider,
Host The Best, has released its new version 2.0 of the HTB eMail Protector Software product, designed to protect email addresses from falling prey to spammers and email harvesting bots.
The new eMail Protector version supports image conversion, and it is possible to display email addresses as images on websites. Converting an email address to an image is as simple as a couple of clicks with HTB eMail Protector.
Andy Candelario, Director of Business Development at Host the Best remarked, ”One of the priorities of the new software development team is to create scripts that not only work well, but also raise the bar of competition in the industry. With the introduction of HTB eMail Protector 2.0, your business can now save on productivity drain caused by spam mails.”
HTB eMail Protector Pro 2.0 introduces Ultra Protection feature for maximum protection. First of its kind, Ultra Protection converts any email address to an image and allows you to display the image instead of text or Unicode on your website, making it impossible for software like spam bots to copy it. The new version also features a tuned up interface and seamless point-and-click functionality.
Since 1999, Host The Best offers reliable Shared Web Hosting services combined with fast, competent and friendly technical support. The company’s goal is to help increase online business and to provide the infrastructure which is essential to keep it running smoothly.
To learn more about the new version of Host The Best eMail Protector and download it, please visit: www.htbsoftware.com/emailprot.php
For more information, please visit: www.hostthebest.com.
Bronx, New York – (The Hosting News) – May 29, 2009 – Web hosting provider,
Host The Best, has released its new version 2.0 of the HTB eMail Protector Software product, designed to protect email addresses from falling prey to spammers and email harvesting bots.
The new eMail Protector version supports image conversion, and it is possible to display email addresses as images on websites. Converting an email address to an image is as simple as a couple of clicks with HTB eMail Protector.
Andy Candelario, Director of Business Development at Host the Best remarked, ”One of the priorities of the new software development team is to create scripts that not only work well, but also raise the bar of competition in the industry. With the introduction of HTB eMail Protector 2.0, your business can now save on productivity drain caused by spam mails.”
HTB eMail Protector Pro 2.0 introduces Ultra Protection feature for maximum protection. First of its kind, Ultra Protection converts any email address to an image and allows you to display the image instead of text or Unicode on your website, making it impossible for software like spam bots to copy it. The new version also features a tuned up interface and seamless point-and-click functionality.
Since 1999, Host The Best offers reliable Shared Web Hosting services combined with fast, competent and friendly technical support. The company’s goal is to help increase online business and to provide the infrastructure which is essential to keep it running smoothly.
To learn more about the new version of Host The Best eMail Protector and download it, please visit: www.htbsoftware.com/emailprot.php
For more information, please visit: www.hostthebest.com.
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