I’d like to share some information about spam filters in connection with an issue that Dale Delph, of The Mayor’s Inn, brought up about e-mail addresses, in response to the article, “Does Your Website Have the Credibility it Needs?”

Spam filters use complicated algorithms when determining whether an e-mail is spam. Most of the time, they are correct, but often, they are not. This is why most spam filters offer the ability to adjust their settings. If you notice a valid e-mail is being held as spam by your spam filter, you should be able to set the filter to always allow e-mail from this address (or even all addresses from that particular domain) to not be filtered. This also works in reverse. When spam gets through the filter, you should also be able to set the filter to block all mail from this address (or from all addresses from this domain). We strongly recommend people who have spam filters to check these filters as least once a week to ensure that no valid e-mails are being caught in the filter, and to make necessary adjustments to the settings.

Greg Yoas – Blizzard Internet Marketing, Inc.

English has always been the standard language for URL’s and many people around the world must struggle not only with a foreign language, but also with unfamiliar letters and symbols when typing URLs. Just imagine yourself trying to type a URL into the address bar in Hebrew or Arabic.

IDN stands for Internationalized Domain Name. Sometimes referred to as multilingual domain names, IDNs are URLs in languages other than English. Firefox users may be familiar with them, but their use will likely explode later this year with Microsoft’s release of the newest version of the world’s most popular browser, Internet Explorer.

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The release of .travel domain names is generating excitement throughout the hospitality and travel industries.  Pre-registration for .travel domains began July 1, 2005.  All pre-registrations will be submitted to the .Travel registry on September 1.

One of the most appealing attributes of these domain names is that businesses using a .travel domain are guaranteed to be in a designated sector of the travel industry.  The domain names will be released only to those businesses, organizations or individuals whose primary activity is within one of eighteen business sectors of the travel industry is eligible to register a name.  Click here to see a list of the approved sectors.  Notably, one can only register a name that is publicly used by, or associated with, the particular organization, and abbreviated names are apparently not allowed. [Read more...]

Virus Alert

Some of our users have been receiving emails that claim to be from “(Your Domain Name) Management”. The body of the email will be similar to the example below:

Dear user, the management of (Your Domain Name) mailing system wants to let you know that, 

Our main mailing server will be temporary unavailable for next two days, to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free auto-forwarding service.  

For details see the attached file. Attached file is protected with the password for security reasons.

These emails are a hoax and potentially contain the W32/Bagle@MM virus or one of its variants. DO NOT OPEN THEM. Any email correspondence you receive from Blizzard Internet Marketing employees will be from the www.blizzardinternet.com or www.blizzardemail.com domains. We will never send you email from your own domain.
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