The Register4Less.com Blog

You have registered your domain name now, want to build a website, but are not sure of how to proceed. With Register4Less.com, you have several options, and we’ll lay these out below.

R4L Free Hosting Platform

On most accounts with us, we provide you with 10 MB of space for hosting a site free with your domain registration. The free hosting platform is perfect if you’re building a small personal or business site, and have some experience with HTML and CSS, and potentially Javascript.  The free hosting platform does not support databases like MySQL or server side scripting languages like PHP, Python, or Perl, but does support Javascript.
The best way to connect with the server to publish your site, whether directly from the program you are using or from an FTP program like FileZilla is to use the FTP service.  Please see this page on R4L’s help Wiki for instructions.

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As an ICANN accredited registrar, we take the security on your account very seriously. The measures we take include

• Having any page where sensitive information you provide is SSL encrypted and behind a login session.
• Optional two factor authentication, where an app on your smart phone or tablet provides 6 digit code you add to your regular password. A new code is generated every thirty seconds.
• A strength indicator rates your password when you create or update a new password on our system.

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If you’re an R4L customer using one of our combined web and email hosting packages, BoxTrapper is an aggressive spam filtering service that can help defeat spammers.

How it Works

When we receive new email for your account from an address you have not whitelisted, BoxTrapper will hold the email in a pending list.  For the email to make it to your inbox, one of two things needs to happen:

1. The sender confirms they are a human sending email and not a spam bot.  This is done via an email that is sent back to the sender with a link to a page on your website to confirm.
2. You review your list of “trapped” mail, select the email and click the option to Whitelist and Deliver.

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Every registered domain name has a Whois record which will contain contact for the registrant (owner), administrator, billing and technical contact.  For each of these contact positions (they can be the same), the Whois record will contain:

• individual’s first and last name
• organization’s name
• postal address
• phone number and optional fax number
• email address

Additionally, the Whois record will contact contact information for the domain’s registrar, and the domain’s creation date, expiry date, name server names and IP addresses, the domain’s status and the date the record was last updated.

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TFA – Two Factor Authentication

The development team at R4L has added a new security feature for account login called Two Factor Authentication (TFA).  Once configured, TFA will automatically generate a new 6 digit code every 30 seconds, and this is required with your current login password in order to access your account.

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The face of the Internet is changing with the introduction of new generic extensions (also called gTLDs or generic top level domains). Instead of having a domain name with a .com extension and the part coming before the .com describing the purpose of the site, you can now register domains with extensions that are part of the meaning of the site.

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Spam, unsolicited commercial email, is something that pretty much anyone with an email account has become familiar with. Most Internet Service Providers have strict acceptable usage policies (AUPs, the link goes to ours), and will monitor and disable accounts if they see them sending spam, however not all do.

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If you’re reading this, you’re likely (hopefully) a customer of Register4Less, Inc., and have received news from the R4L Team about our new hosting and domain renewal reminders.
The purpose of this blog post is to add a little background to how and why the renewal reminders have changed. This is all a part of the process we have undergone for moving as a reseller for another ICANN Accredited registrar to being directly accredited ourselves.

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For those of you who watch the R4L Blog, great news. The new advanced hosting services are now live! This is literally the biggest undertaking we have taken in terms of adding new services for our customers, and one that our entire team is very excited about.

Hosting on R4L Dedicated Servers

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