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If you have a domain hosted with config.com then you need to use our Authoritative Domain Name Service (DNS) servers which include: Name: a.ns.config.com
Address: 69.93.64.43 Name: b.ns.config.com
Address: 174.133.242.158 Name: c.ns.config.com
Address: 66.219.144.144 And the config.com technical contact information includes: Rinehart, Joe
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Your Technical contact and domain name servers are very important to the success of your e-commerce site! Not only is DNS the core of any network, Google looks to see if the Technical contact of the IP range has a history of being associated with domains used in spam or porn operations, or is also on any blacklists. If so, you may be penalized. The Owner contact should be the person or company that maintains ownership of the domain. It is amazing how many times a web production company is listed as the owner and in my opinion, a possible attempt to lock a client in to their complete control. The Administrative contact should be the person directly responsible for the web site or domain in general. Admin contacts are also the party responsible for domain transfers, although the owner can gain control if circumstances cause the need. The Billing contact is the person who is responsible for payment to the registrar. This is an important contact field since it can avoid potential situations like the time when Microsoft didn't pay the $35 Network Solutions fee and millions of Hotmail users were without email until a Linux geek paid it for them. I always got a laugh from this story which made National news during the Christmas holiday season of 1999! You may read about this story at URL: http://www.geek.com/articles/news/microsoft-will-pay-hotmail-hero-19991229/ You should never have the same contact for all three contacts! If you are a one man shop I'd recommend using at least a secondary public free type address like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or such. It is amazing how often someone changes their ISP and loses access to the single email address they used to register a domain! If that happens to you it can be resolved, but with added headache of proving you are the person or company that owns the domain which usually involves faxing corporate records, drivers licenses, and other such documents. I once received an email from the VP of the Tucows Registrar regarding the domain DNS registrar scams by certain unethical companies to get you to renew their domains with them. You may read my comments (since I didn't agree with the domain cloaking issue since this is also associated with spam and porn web operations) and his recommended steps to take to prevent this at URL: http://www.config.com/2008020860/newsflash/take-steps-to-prevent-domain-name-renewal-scams.html Domain Name Service (DNS) On-line Tools: Both of the following sites I use for DNS server analysis have a combination of free and for pay services: http://whois.domaintools.com/config.com http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ A "paid service" test I like to run to determine the quality of DNS services is at URL: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport/?domain=config.com and frankly, the cost of membership to dnsstuff.com considering the many other tools available to help trouble shoot Internet IP, email, and various domain problems is well worth it! In any regard, dnsstuff.com also offers several free services related to DNS stuff. Upon Google's Search Engine Patent becoming public in March of 2005 at URL, I ran several tests related to the network infrastructure and DNS which were covered in sections [96] through [101] and wrote an article of my personal experiences related to domain prepayment which is available for "registered users only" of the config.com domain at URL: http://www.config.com/2008010745/latest/the-importance-of-domain-pre-payment-in-relationship-to-search-engine-optimization-seo.html Googles Patent application became public information according to United States Patent Application 20050071741 on March 31, 2005 Serial No.: 748664 Filed: December 31, 2003. For the Record I'd like to quote sections [96 -101] of the Google Patent specific to DNS and highlight sections that caught my attention : [0096] Domain-Related Information [0097] According to an implementation consistent with the principles of the invention, information relating to a domain associated with a document may be used to generate (or alter) a score associated with the document. For example, search engine 125 may monitor information relating to how a document is hosted within a computer network (e.g., the Internet, an intranet or other network or database of documents) and use this information to score the document. [0098] Individuals who attempt to deceive (spam) search engines often use throwaway or "doorway" domains and attempt to obtain as much traffic as possible before being caught. Information regarding the legitimacy of the domains may be used by search engine 125 when scoring the documents associated with these domains. [0099] Certain signals may be used to distinguish between illegitimate and legitimate domains. For example, domains can be renewed up to a period of 10 years. Valuable (legitimate) domains are often paid for several years in advance, while doorway (illegitimate) domains rarely are used for more than a year. Therefore, the date when a domain expires in the future can be used as a factor in predicting the legitimacy of a domain and, thus, the documents associated therewith. [0100] Also, or alternatively, the domain name server (DNS) record for a domain may be monitored to predict whether a domain is legitimate. The DNS record contains details of who registered the domain, administrative and technical addresses, and the addresses of name servers (i.e., servers that resolve the domain name into an IP address). By analyzing this data over time for a domain, illegitimate domains may be identified. For instance, search engine 125 may monitor whether physically correct address information exists over a period of time, whether contact information for the domain changes relatively often, whether there is a relatively high number of changes between different name servers and hosting companies, etc. In one implementation, a list of known-bad contact information, name servers, and/or IP addresses may be identified, stored, and used in predicting the legitimacy of a domain and, thus, the documents associated therewith. [0101] Also, or alternatively, the age, or other information, regarding a name server associated with a domain may be used to predict the legitimacy of the domain. A "good" name server may have a mix of different domains from different registrars and have a history of hosting those domains, while a "bad" name server might host mainly pornography or doorway domains, domains with commercial words (a common indicator of spam), or primarily bulk domains from a single registrar, or might be brand new. The newness of a name server might not automatically be a negative factor in determining the legitimacy of the associated domain, but in combination with other factors, such as ones described herein, it could be. You get what you pay for! Sure you can get hosting for free somewhere in cyber space, but if millions of other sites are using the same servers, it only takes one to cause harm to all the rest... think about it! :( The bottom line is you must first have your own domain services house in order before you can effectively compete with those that do, as SEO is not only about getting links back to your site or limited to social networking! If you should have any questions regarding Domain Name Service and it's importance toward the quality of network infrastructure for successful Search Engine Optimization please feel free to contact me on my cell 330.389.1192 anytime. Best 'net regards, Joe Rinehart, Hostmaster |
