Firefox and DNS prefetching – I read about this being a feature in Google Chrome, but I wasn’t sure if it was, yet, a feature of Firefox. It is in Ff 3.5. Here you can find a list of the new features in Firefox 3.5.

What is DNS prefetching? – It is the process of requesting domain name and IP (Internet Protocol or Intellectual Property) address resolution used in links, images, documents and other content linked to from a page a web surfer is currently browsing. Theoretically, by…

I wanted a way to quickly view the record information on a domain, but I did not want anyone tracking domains I look up. Or like some bad registrars, have any possible domain I look up end up as registered thanks to the ICANN grace period and overpriced registrars trying to extort money before selling the domain.

So, I ended up searching for possible WhoIs scripts and how one could query the domain record information and ended up coming across the whois.php script, which is currently utilized on Domain Record Info. Also accessed via WhoIsMesh.com and DomaIndex.Info.

There are few other options/functions I would like to add to the page – ping, dns…

As you have been able to see and read the site was down due to the host company having some problems. I host my e-mail service through a different company, and even though you were not able to access your email accounts for more than a week, none of your incoming emails were lost. Well, 99 % of them. Any inbound emails send on Thursday, 09-08, were not received due to DNS forwarding issues. As I mentioned previously, I moved the site to new servers, so anything in the last 24 horse was most likely routed improperly and probably bounced back to the sender.

I apologize for the inconvenience. I hope I will not have to go through this whole process…