Yesterday night onwards me domains are opened for registration meanwhile GoDaddy played some fraud games to their customers. We registered couple of me domains but today we got a email saying that “Concurrent registration happened for the same domain so we are putting the domains for auction“. I am sure it is a guise, I worry whether such concurrent registration problems occur with godaddy’s database. It’s really a well planned game from the corporate.

If their is such a concurrency problem with database why don’t it happened previously? Is the architects and engineers at godady are too bad to predict and take remedial measures for this type of concurrency issues? If yes shame call us we can deliver you applications that are quiet stable than godaddy .

There is no need for a reputed company like godaddy to play such scam against their valuable customers. I would say it was against company ethics. I don’t know how much bad impression are going to create against goDaddy simply because of this planned game. I feel pity on you goDaddy.

Top level domain name (TLDN), is the last part of domain name ie letters after the final dots of the web address. For example com, in, gov, mobi, org these are some of the extensions. These are handled and managed by the non-profit organization called ICANN. The latest development in this domain suffix is organization can apply for any top level domains. For instance, organization could use brand names such as .intel, .ibm, .ebay etc as their suffix.

Registering a new top level domain name will cost around $100,000 to $500,000, Paul Twomey ICANN’s president and CEO said.

Today there are 160 million websites of which 70 million websites end with .com, 80 million ends with country specific suffixes. ICANN increased the pool of top-level domain in 2001 and 2003 but limited names are available now.ICANN is also making possible to register domains with non-English characters such as Chinese, Arabic etc.

ICANN spent years and around $10 million for this top-level domain. If the proposal come through, organization can able to register top-level domains by April 2009.

Yes that is true the blogcamp kerala is about to happen in houseboat. This is going to be the first unconference to happen on boat. The Event is hosted by Kerala Tourism.

Date and venue are 16th August 2008 and Alappuzha respectively. Open registration is available for 80 participants on first come first serve basis. If you are planning to attend and enjoy blogcamp in backwaters of Kerala confirm your participation now in this link below.

Url : http://www.contactvirus.com/blogcampkerala
Shared Key : godsowncountry

The houseboat is huge one with A/C and big conference hall. Just look at the pictures below to see the facilities of houseboat.

Google maps is getting popular these days. So its a good idea to create your own local business entry in google maps. So whenever some one search about your business you will be appeared on the top level. This will definitely increase your business. In addition google maps include the geographic factors that determine the ranking order in search result.

Creating an entry in local business add more to our business. It will bring visitors to your site and also bring customers directly into your door. Local business center is available for owners who are located in Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Japan, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, the UK, and the U. S.

Signup for the service now and create your own business listing. But make sure that the information is not duplicated that means make sure someone else already listed your business. Search for listing before submitting new data. It can be done by searching [business name, zipcode]. If business is listed “Claim your business” else continue for signup.

Figure above shows new listing.

Search result from google map search.

Yahoo messenger had a cool feature called invisible mode. Sometime people misuse this functionality which so annoying. There are couple of solution to hack whether the invisible one are actually online.

Let me explain few methods to check whether invisible one is actually online or not? One which is very official way that provided by Yahoo itself by checking the profile directory. Suppose your target profile be `xyz`. Open the URL http://profiles.yahoo.com/xyz in your browser. The page entitled with Yahoo status. The page will display the information about the account like name, sex, age, occupation etc.

Another way to check the user is invisible is http://mail.opi.yahoo.com/online?u=username&m=a&t=1

This will show the status of the user, If the status is 00 then user is invisible and 01 if the user is online.

Another way which is not generic one. Lot of providers are giving status message from yahoo. One such provider is Yahoo status checker. You can provide the username on the textfield provided and click on submit button. The application will provide you the status of yahoo messenger.

All of us need to flag some of the important emails, thats why email clients provide the facility for flagging or starring. But what will do if we need to prioritizes the starred emails?

Team gmail recently enabled a feature called superstars, which provide us facility to add priority by assigning different labels accordingly upon our priority. There are 12 icon for assigning priorities. It is enabled as a Lab feature.

How to enable superstars?

As I mentioned that it is enabled as Lab feature. Click on the Setting link on the top right corner of your mailbox. On the setting window click on the Lab tab. On the Lab tab select the Enable radio button labeled Superstars and save the setting.

Flashget

Some of you might be familiar with flashget. Its the coolest download manager every to be created. Recently they have added torrent support also and now Flashget is irresistible. I myself am a flashget user for the last 10 years.

Utorrent

Its the most popular torrent client. It is very small in size (~1mb) and has got all the necessary features. Recently utorrent released their webUI using which users can control their torrent downloads remotely. Its a very cool application and Id suggest that you give this a try before you decide upon your torrent client.

BitLord

A popular tool that has a built-in torrent search engine…you may never need to use a torrent search web site ever again with this product. BitLord is also very light weight. Whenever you download using bitlord, other applications might feel a shortage of bandwidth.

Azureus

Azureus is a java based client and hence it works fine on both Linux and Windows. Its the most extensive Torrent client available and you need to be a real expert to take full advantage of its features. Its a bit heavy to operate and takes time to load or close.

A tracker is a server that aids in communication between peers who download files off the torrent network. For a client to download files from the torrent network, its necessary that it connect to a tracker first. Without a tracker the client cannot initiate the download.

The tracker provides the client with information regarding the peers who has pieces of the file its trying to download. Once a client gets the information it will contact the peers directly and then download pieces from it. The client contacts the server periodically updating its status and getting information about new clients.

Trackers are of two types, public tracker and private tracker. Anyone can connect to a public tracker and get information regarding the files it tracks. But private trackers are password protected. Private torrents are used to maintain the quality of clients. Some private trackers are invitation only. Some have upload ratio that needs to be maintained by the client to be able to be a member.

Downloading files off the torrent network is a 2 step process. First you have to download the index file for the file you want to download. Then you feed the index file to the client and the client starts the original download.

Most of the time people download the index file and says that they downloaded the file, it was very fast and couldn’t open the file.

The index file or the torrent file contains information regarding the servers that track the original file that we want to download. Those servers are called trackers and they track the users who has got particular files. Our download client contacts the server to get a list of the users with the file and then connects directly to the users and downloads the files.

Some advanced technologies are now eliminating the need for centralised trackers. DHT is a technology in which peers communicate with each other propagating the data needed about the availability of the files with out a tracker.

I hope you have understood the basics of torrents from the previous post. If you have not, wait for the coming posts. For the time being lets stop bull shitting and do some practical stuff. Lets install a torrent client.

A torrent client is a like a download manager for torrents. But slightly different in the way it operates and downloads the files. A torrent client uses the bit torrent protocol to download the file. The best torrent client I have ever used is flashget.

Download Flashget from here

Flashget was a normal download manager. Its only recently that they added the bit torrent protocol also to it. Right now its the best download manager available with loads of features.

Download and install the program. We will cover how to download a file from the torrent network in the next post.