Posts Tagged ‘DNS’

The Image/File Hosting Problem

By Jonathan Bailey • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues

There are times where content that appears to be on one server is really elsewhere. Here’s how to overcome that problem.



Quarkbase: Almost Everything About a Website

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 17th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Products

Hot on the heels of my review of AbouThiSite, we now take a look at a new service that promises to improve the way you get information about a site and fix many of the issues from the former review.



AbouThiSite: Smart Weasel, Useless Data

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 11th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Products

Mashup site, AbouThiSite, attempts to make the process of getting the information you need about a domain easier than ever, but does it provide the needed tools for us to get by?



WhoIsHostingThis: Easy and Reliable

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 25th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Products

Recent improvements at WhoIsHostingThis promise to make it the go-to resource for finding the host of a site. But are the improvements good enough?



Video: Finding the Host

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 30th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Products, Videos

As a follow-up to my recent updates to the Finding the Host page of the site, I’ve decided to create a short video demonstrating the process of finding a host for a domain Web site.
The video, which lasts about five minutes, takes the user through the process of finding the host for this site, [...]



Updates to “Stopping Internet Plagiarism” Series

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 27th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

I’ve noted for some time that the “Stopping Internet Plagiarism” series on the site has fallen into grave disrepair. For example, the instructions for finding the host referenced a service that has not been operation for almost a year and offered complicated instructions when easier tools were available.
So, I’ve started taking some time to rewrite [...]



Whois Service Comes Under Fire

By Jonathan Bailey • Oct 30th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News

Article Updated
According to a recent AP article, the Whois service, a series of databases with information about the individuals that register domains, has come under fire from privacy advocates and a new proposal seeks to do away with the service altogether.
Such a move would be a tremendous blow to law enforcement, lawyers and researchers that [...]