A lot of people have an idea of what they want for a website and have no idea where to start. In experience one of the worst things however you can do when getting ready to register a domain is to purchase it at the same place that you choose hosting for with a few exceptions. Why?

Most companies that are hosting websites are also in the business of domain registration, and when you decide to get both through the hosting company it can cause issues if you ever decide to leave that company. This is because most of the hosting companies actually have deals with larger registrars like enom. The hosting company purchases the domain for you but has control over it many times. Then when you decide the hosting is cheaper somewhere else or decide that you want to move the domain somewhere else that better suites you the hosting company that you registered the domain with will give you problems.

The best route to go is to register your domain with a company like Godaddy or network solutions or even Enom. Once you do this companies like this generally have no issue in my experience helping you transfer your domain. Once you have your domain purchased then proceed to find the right host for you, that provides great customer service at a great price. One of the best out there is Bluehost.com and they have great uptime.

Most people don’t know why they can’t send emails many times and continue to receive bounce backs. Many timed the issue is what is called blacklisting. Blacklisting can be a horrible nightmare for someone especially that is on a shared server and is at the mercy of a Hosting company to assist in getting them removed. Things can get even worse when a person purchases a dedicated server that may have been previously used and blacklisted. below are some tips that might help with getting you back in the white in th email world.

Many ISP’s give their customers top priority for delisting a blacklist IP. Some such as SBC global can take many weeks to take care of this issue but if you are a customer will many times take care of the problem immediately which may be a quick solution rather than fighting to get unblacklisted. So you could signup for some type of service to have it taken care of faster then cancel once you are white listed.

Below are some of the simple ways you may try to get whitelisted for some of the larger companies out there.

• SBC Global - Send a message to one of their users and you will get a bounce back message telling you how to resolve the issue. Do exactly what the bounce back says and sometimes you can get delisted in a few days. Keep in mind you won’t ever get an email saying you have been removed from the blacklist so don’t give up.

• Earthlink and Netcom - Follow instructions from bounce back also. In this case you will receive a message back once you have been removed.

• Cox - This is a tough one. You may need to become a member to get off this one. Work with your hosting provider to bombard them until your wish is granted.

• At&T - Send an email to abuse_rbl@att.net or post a thread on the At&T forum to inquire about getting off blacklist.

• AOL - This can take a bit of effort but the best way to resolve this is to follow the guidelines set here at the Postmaster page. Another key to getting off blacklisting with AOL if this didn’t work would be to just contact them. You can find this info for all locations international here.

remember a great tool to use is mxtoolbox which can tell you info about your domain as well as blacklisting.

Internet censoring is conducted under an array of laws and administrative regulations in China. More than 60 laws in relation to this have been created under the Peoples republic of China.

Interestingly these are enforced by provincial state owned ISP’s. However at times, mostly special occasions blocks to certain websites may be lifted. Hong Kong and Macau are the only cities which have their own regulation many times being much more lax.

Isps are blocked from being accessed many times and if so on a shared server all other sites will be blocked as well, giving no opportunity for a harmless website that does not go against Chinese rules to even be viewed by China.

One major problem in the enforcement is to determine who has real jurisdiction over the Internet. This causes many bureaucratic turf battles within the PRC government among various ministries and between central and local officials. The State council information office has the mandate to regulate the Internet, but then again other security agencies in mainland China also have a say.

So is there any real organizing of such efforts to block harmful content and doing a good job of it by the Chinese government? Hardly!

And just because this article was written it may very well be on a block list as well.