What is SSL? SSL is a concept little understood by most people. Many people ask us, what are the benefits of SSL? How secure is SSL? In this post we try to answer all your questions. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, an encryption technology originally developed by Netscape.  It lets private information to be transmitted [...]

In March and April this year, Google Adwords customers received an email which appeared to be a genuine email from Google requesting the username and password for their Google Adwords account. This was a clear attempt by individuals or groups, known as phishers, to acquire the usernames and passwords of Google Adwords users.

If you need to get a blog up quickly, WordPress is a great way to launch a fully featured blog that can be easily customised. Most good web hosts offer WordPress as part of their standard hosting packages, so in most cases it’s simply a matter of activating WordPress and starting to communicate what’s on [...]

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Melbourne IT Corporate Brand Services (CBS) announced that it has helped Endemol Nederland B. V., producers of the global Big Brother programme, to secure the bigbrother.com domain name which has been owned by another party since October 2004.

To update your domain name delegation details and set new name servers, you will need to use Melbourne IT’s domain maintenance tools. These tools can be accessed by logging-in to your My Account Console.

Internet news website ZDNET Australia reported this week that an unknown number of web sites owned by Australian users and hosted by US provider RegisterFly have been lost, and attempts to renew or reactivate the web sites have been unsuccessful. Customers have seen their website disappearing off the internet and their domain name going into [...]

New opportunities with .tel .tel was approved by ICANN in May 2006 and is a new Top Level Domain (TLD) due for launch in 2008. .tel is being run by Telnic Limited and the registry back-end is provided by Neustar, Inc. Following the .mobi launch, some clients may wonder if there is a need for [...]