.INFO Domain owners now have the chance to have their Domain named the best .INFO website at the .INFO Awards 2010 and win up to $7500.

Afilias – the .INFO Registry first launched the .INFO Awards in 2007 in Germany and their popularity has spread worldwide since then.

The 2010 Awards are open to anyone who owns a .INFO Domain from any where in the world. These websites will be judged by a selection of Web Design and Media Experts on the basis of criteria such as presentation of content, functionality of site, design, usability and originality.

So, if you think your .INFO website has what it takes to be adjudged the best .INFO Website of 2010, all you have to do is submit your site at http://www.info-award.info/submit_site before the 10th of September, 2010. The shortlisted websites will be declared on October 5, 2010 followed by a public vote with the results being declared shortly after November 2, 2010.

Before entering your website, you can take a look at the rules and regulations here.

For more information on the .INFO Awards, please visit: http://www.info-award.info

Email authenticity is a major concern for a lot of customers and one of the best ways of addressing this is by adding SPF and DKIM Records. Both these techniques can be used to prevent email spoofing.

So what are SPF and DKIM Records?

SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework and is an open standard to prevent sender address forgery. The way it works is that it stops email forgers from forging the sender address in an email. It does this by authorizing addresses that can send email for a particular Domain Name. You can get a little more info on SPF here.

Similarly, DKIM i.e. Domain Keys Identification Mail is another mechanism used to fight email forgery. It uses encryption technology to verify the authenticity of the sender address. If a message has been verified through Domain Keys, you’ll see a small icon of an envelope and key in the email header. Read more about DKIM here.

Adding these Records:

No changes will be required if you’re using our DNS Services.

However, in case you’re not using our DNS services, you will need to add certain TXT Records in the package being used. These can be viewed under Nameserver Details in the Order Details View of your Email Package.

Maybe it helped you meet your boyfriend/girlfriend/dog walker. Or keep a friendship alive from continents away. Or learn something that protected your health or that of a loved one.

All you have to do is go to HowDoYou.com submit a short video or essay about how .com has changed your life. If your entry wins (by a combination of popular votes and judging), you could win one of ten iPads, $2,500, $5,000, or $10,000.

The deadline is August 31, 2010—don’t wait to tell your story!.

Visit HowDoYou.com for more information and to submit your entry.

This August, we’re going all out with current Promos as well as new ones.

Unlimited Web Hosting @ $1.49 ends on the 13^th of August, 2010. The 40% Discount on Unlimited Web Hosting is only available for another four days.

We’re also restarting two of our previous Promos – .MOBI & .CN.COM @ $8.99.
You can avail of these promos from the 10^th of August, 2010. That’s not all – the .CN.COM Promo will be on till the 31^st of December, 2010.

What can you expect in September?

Mega Bargains Month is going live on the 1^st of September, 2010! We hope you’re ready for an entire month of great discounts and promos on all of our Products and Services and a lot (lot!) more.

Visit us again soon for more information on Mega Bargains Month and everything that we’ve got planned for you this September.

As some of you might be aware, there was a hack attempt on ResellerClub’s website earlier today. At the onset of the attempt, we immediately undertook a flurry of investigative activities from our end to identify and mitigate the issue as soon as possible. We were able to successfully combat the hack attempt and had the website up and running quickly enough.

As always we want to be absolutely transparent about everything that happens at ResellerClub, and share the analysis of the hack attempt with you-

• Firstly, there was an attempt to hack only the ResellerClub website and blog, and no other interfaces.
• The hacker unsuccessfully tried to exploit a vulnerability that exists in the 3^rd party CMS software that we use for our Website – the only effect being a tiny script that altered the index pages of our website, which resulted into the site not resolving to the right homepage.
• Our core products and services (including your Control Panels, SuperSite, etc.) are well insulated against such vulnerabilities and were unaffected by this hack attempt. So were our databases and customer data – they remain untouched too.
• Having said that, you can rest assured that we’re taking every precautionary measure possible to eradicate the possibility of a re-occurrence – existing security measures are being tightened and new ones are being implemented.

We will put up a detailed update sometime next week giving you more insight into this. We completely understand that this hack attempt has been a matter of concern for you, but at ResellerClub, the security of our systems has always been top priority for us. We assure you that we have all measures in place to not let any attempt at compromising the smooth functioning of your business or the security of your Customer data, be successful – just the way we did this time around.