If you are looking for information on Google saying that 20,000 websites could be at risk for JavaScript malware, maybe this will help you.

Websites were warned that configuration files could be at risk. They think that JavaScript has been put into sites by a third party and that it can be used to redirect users to harmful sites. Google said that the websites should remove the malware and secure it to protect site visitors. They should make security a priority. Webmasters were urged to keep their software to date for safety and to contact their Web hosts for any technical support they may need. Google has warned website owners other times besides today to look for malware infections. It is part of their mission to do their bit to help with spam prevention. They communicate openly with webmasters to help with this. Last July Google didn’t let more than 11 million URLs from the “co.cc” domain come into being on their site because they were used by cybercriminals to conduct drive by attacks and spread antivirus programs. Google explained in a blog at the time that some companies could host more than 50,000 malware domains and that it could flag bulk domains in the worst cases.

Java accounts have more windows infections than any other account. It tops all other infection vectors year after year. Oracle has shown that it is incapable of keeping the Java Environment secure. If the company that you work for makes Java apps, it is time to stop. If your clients have Java, you should give them the support and the tools they need to block Java.

To protect your computer you can use two different browsers, one with Java enabled and the other without and only have the Java-jinxed browser when necessary. The other thing you can do is uninstall or disable Java in the browser you use and put it back on only when you have no other options.

The bottom line is, if you think that your website or computer can be harmed by malware, look into it and see what you can do to get rid of the problem.

Google · Malware · Websites

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If you are ready to make money with no cost to you, it is time to consider joining Freezone.  Freezone is UK’s best value hosting company and the company offers one of the best affiliate programmes that will give you commission on every sale you make.  If you are looking for the best commission rates in the industry and you want to receive rewards just for signing up, review why Freezone is the answer and start making money today.

What Does the Affiliate Scheme Through Freezone Offer?

The hosting packages sell themselves and you can make commission on every sale you make, including domain names.  Affiliates who are signed up with the Freezone affiliate programme can earn as much as £80 for each and every sale they make.  You will make up to £3 on each domain name and up to £80 on every eShop sale.  The commission structure is extremely clear cut so you never have to guess how much you will earn in commissions each time you are paid.

Some of the additional benefits offered by Freezone include:

*  £10 payout bonus just for signing up for the free account
*  Domain names are extremely affordable.
*  Commissions are paid on every product.
*  Commissions are paid directly into your Paypal account.
*  Accessibility to live support agents.
*  Online chat support tools for convenience.
*  Full account management tools so you can make more money.
*  A wide range of banners and the option to custom make banners.
*  Free access to advice from account managers.

You should never have to pay to become an affiliate and earn commissions.  In fact, the company should want you so bad they are willing to payout a bonus to you when you join.  Freezone is the host you have always been looking for.  Earn high commission rates as an affiliate partner with Freezone and earn money for selling domains, email, shared hosting, Eshop, and SSL certificates.

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If you are considering registering a new domain, securing your privacy is very important. Failing to do so exposes your personal information to everybody with access to a computer. The process of registering a new domain involves providing contact information such as phone number, email address, name, city, and post office address. ICANN, the body that is tasked with overseeing domain name registration requires this information. While this is for noble purposes, unscrupulous individuals can misuse this information. The following reasons show why it is important to have domain privacy.

Avoid Spamming
The Whois database is freely available and anyone can login and get details unhindered. Spammers have created spam bots and used them to trawl the site for owner email addresses. This contact information is then sold or used to send unsolicited junk mail to your inbox. Spamming is the first doorway before things become more serious and scary.

Avoid Hacking
Your unprotected domain details can be used by hackers to gain access to your site. If you are just starting out, the cash to set up a secure site might be limited. Hackers are quite adept at taking advantage of such loopholes to penetrate your site. You may not even not notice that you site has been compromised. This could come to light after serious security breaches prompt you to call in the experts.

Avoid Identity Theft
This is very serious and has happened to site owners who only took steps when it was too late. Someone can use your details to engage in criminal activities which in turn could land you in serious legal trouble.

While this is certainly frightening, there are steps you can take to keep your personal information safe. To start with, IT experts agree unanimously that domain privacy is your first line of defense. This ensures that your contact details and personal information is not freely available. Domain registrars provide this service for an extra fee. Anyone who tries to look up your details on the Whois database will only see the registrar details. This security is invaluable compared with the damage hackers can wreak with access to personal details. You can also rest easy at night safe in the knowledge that no one is going to turn up uninvited to harass your family.

Domain · Hosting · Small business · Small businesses · Web Hosting

Freezone’s lucky 13th birthday celebrations are here at last. This means that Freezone is offering extra savings to everyone on top of their already lowest-in-the-industry price structure. Just because more discount pricing is on offer does not mean that our unbeatable record of reliability will suffer in any way. This is not some stripped down offer. The same fantastic service we have provided for the past thirteen years simply costs less while our 13th birthday celebrations are taking place.

When you order a web hosting package from Freezone during our birthday event, you get everything you need.

•    Free domain names are included in every package. There are no tricky extra charges hidden in any Freezone offer. You need a domain name to get online and you get one. To charge extra for this critical link in establishing a web presence is as dishonest as insisting that the price of a new car does not include the cost of a steering wheel.
•    Real human beings are available to help you whenever you need it and not just when somebody feels like answering the phone. Freezone has experts, not temp staff, ready and waiting twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, holidays most definitely included. To us, reliability means being there whenever you need assistance or have questions.
•    You get the software you need to manage your new internet property with ease and power. All of it comes at no cost to you whatsoever. You can see which parts of your web presence are drawing in visitors and which elements are being met with little interest. This allows you to maximize the value of every web visitor.

Unwrap a present for yourself during our 13th birthday celebrations. Give yourself the gift of more discount pricing, greater reliability, free 24/7 support . Take advantage of this stellar opportunity to make a name for yourself and your business on the biggest stage of all.

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We know there are plenty of web hosting companies out there. Some offer discounted UK hosting, others throw in a couple free domain names, or offer to update your domain name registration for you, or will transfer domains if you’ve already chosen to buy domain names elsewhere. What is worth your money and what isn’t?
At Freezone, our Ultimate Hosting package is really popular among the clients that we serve. We see it this way: if you are a serious customer with high-performance web hosting needs, we know that you will greatly benefit from our hosting services. So we throw in three five domain names, to begin with, but then we also offer six months free web hosting to subscribers of the Ultimate Hosting package.
Because this package is the most comprehensive that we offer, we’re willing to give our customers the first six months free for two reasons: first, we stand behind our service, and second, we think they deserve a thank-you.
Freezone’s Ultimate Hosting package also includes 10 GB of disk space, unlimited data transfer, unlimited mailboxes, 5 free domain names (and domain name hosting for 5 domains), graphical web stats, WordPress, 5 databases, data backup & restore, a website builder, your SSL Certificate, and your choice between Linux and Windows platforms.
On top of that, the 6 months free is like icing on the cake – and it’s already a really good cake.

No tags

Well, the answer is a resounding ‘no’ as far as Freezone’s marketing team is concerned. No sooner have they helped many small businesses enjoy the benefits of our Ultimate web hosting package at half the normal price, they’re now offering 6 months free web hosting on the same package.

It’s actually not a surprise that the Ultimate web hosting package has proved to be a big hit with people looking for UK web hosting. The package is packed full of features – not only do you get 10GB of disk and unlimited bandwidth, you’ll also be able to benefit from 5 databases, unlimited mailboxes, SSL certificate, a Sitebuilder and data back and restore.

And that’s not all. The Ultimate web hosting package also comes with WordPress allowing you to start blogging immediately. (In fact, we use WordPress to write this very blog.)

But it doesn’t end there. Instead of you having to buy domain names, Freezone throw in 5 free domain names. And importantly, provide you the facility to host 5 separate websites under the one single package.

All this and 6 months free! Perhaps not all good things come to an end. At least not as far as UK web hosting is concerned.

domain name · Free domain name · Free web hosting · UK web hosting · Web Hosting

When searching for a new domain name, it’s not unusual to find that your first few choices of .com or .co.uk domains have already been registered by someone else.

Simple, generic .com and .co.uk domains have long been registered, diminishing the choice available to anyone registering a domain today. In fact, many people are choosing company names based on available domain names rather than the other way round.

Certainly, as a web hosting company, we talk to customers everyday who have to compromise on their ideal domain name because it’s already taken by someone else.

Well, that is about to change with the recent introduction of the .co extension. Until recently the dedicated extension for Columbia, it’s now been made available to companies around the world.

Not only is this a great opportunity for you to register a domain of your (first) choice, it’s also your chance to secure a domain name or two for investment purposes. In fact, judging by the buzz around the web hosting industry, the latter is proving to be pretty popular choice. In fact, over the last few months, we have had more calls about .co domain names than any other issue.

So, if you missed your chance to secure your ideal domain in the past, or are simply interested in investing in potentially profitable .co domain names, call your web hosting company today. (Of course, you are free to call our team or visit our website too!)

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As a web hosting company, we have seen a trend in customers buying more and more variations of their domain name. And it’s not simply the domain extension (.com, .co.uk, etc) but also similar sounding and common spelling mistakes too.

The reason behind this is pretty obvious. Why would anyone build a brand online and then have someone else come along and buy the same domain name with a different extension and enjoy the benefits of ready customers?

So if you don’t already own the key variations of your domain name, consider how it would impact your business if someone else was to register those alternatives. If you are unsure about which extensions / alternatives are important, have a chat with your web hosting company.

Note: you don’t have to buy every extension – .com, .co.uk and maybe .net and biz would be sufficient.

buying domain name · Domain · domain name

A short while ago, I visited a large exhibition here in London aimed at business start ups. There were plenty of ‘entrepreneurs’ full of confidence of a person about to launch the next big thing. (It’s strange how the success of reality TV shows such as Dragons’ Den and The Apprentice has turned us all into a nation of entrepreneurs.)

There were plenty of gurus / mentors / all-round successful business folks eager to dispense free advice and inspiration. There were also plenty of experts with failed businesses equally happy to point out their own mistakes! Well, we all learn from mistakes.

Of course, there were also a lot of exhibitors offering practical help and tools to get your business off the ground. As a web hosting company, I found the services offered by ‘company registration’ agents most interesting.

Essentially, these chaps allow you to register your company with Companies House, buy a domain name, web hosting package and website design, all at a click of a mouse. All very convenient and fast.

However, there was a catch. The cost of a domain name and web hosting from a large number of these agents was dramatically more than what you would pay a dedicated web hosting company.

Our advice is simple. By all means use these agents if you are registering a new business. For your web hosting needs, however, shop around – Google ‘web hosting’ (better still ‘UK web hosting’) to find a dedicated web hosting company where you will pay a fraction of the price of some of these agents and, equally important, receive full technical support to get your website up and running quickly and efficiently.

Company registration · domain name · UK web hosting · Web Hosting

In our previous blog, we talked about some of the benefits of securing a ‘second-hand’ domain name. Today we’ll run through some of the methods used to identify and then analyse strengths and weaknesses of expired / expiring domain names.

Let’s start with how to find an expired / expiring domain name. The easiest option here is if you know what you are looking for – may be you are aware that one of your competitors is about to close for business and potentially allow their domain to expire.

In this case, you simply visit WHOIS and keep an eye on the expiry date. If the domain is not renewed, it will be released for anyone to re-register within 90 days.

However, you may be looking for a domain name associated with certain keywords. Here, the challenge is slightly greater and you will need some additional tools / software. Make your first port of call a search engine and enter a phrase such as “expired domain name search”. You’ll find a good choice of free-to-use websites and paid-for software that will allow you to search for expired / expiring domain names based on a criteria of your choice.

A lot of these websites and software packages can be pretty inefficient and will still require a good degree of perseverance on your part. However, eventually, this process should pay off.

Another option is to keep an eye on domain auction websites – try SEDO, the Ebay of domain name auctions.

There are, of course, more obvious sources, namely, web hosting companies. If a domain name is hosted with them, they’ll be the first to know if it has not been renewed.

So once you have identified your domain name, how do you evaluate it?

The key measures are a domain name’s current rankings and inbound links. These along with other key variables usually determine where a website appears on search engines. Two key sources to view some of these metrics are Alexa and Google.

Visit Alexa and enter the domain name you are interested in and you’ll be presented with a range of information about the domain. Two key elements are Traffic Rank (the lower the better) and Sites Linking In (the higher the better).

Google too allocates a Page Rank (0-10) for each website it indexes – rule of thumb here is the higher the PR the better the positioning on search engine results. Simply search for Google PR Calculator in any search engine where you will be able to enter a domain name and discover its PR.

Of course, there are many other sites (for example, Linkvendor and Linkdiagnosis) providing similar analysis for existing and expired domain names. And while results of analysis will vary from source to source (Alexa, Google, etc) you can certainly get a very good impression of the likely success a domain may yield.

Happy hunting!

Domain · domain name · second-hand domain name · Web Hosting