We are pleased to announce that XDnet have  now officially partnered with CloudFlare.

As a certified partner we can provide users with easy integration with CloudFlare direct from cPanel with the click of a button!

Enabling your site to use CloudFlare is easy and brings huge benefits to both you and your users, on average sites using CloudFlare:

• Load 40% faster
• Uses 60% less bandwidth
• Sees 65% fewer requests
• Is vastly more secure!

.XXX is a brand new Sponsored TLD which, after much debate and controversy has recently been approved by ICANN on 18th March 2011, and became operational in April this year. The sTLD is managed, and sponsored by the ICM Registry.

The .XXX (aka “dot tripple-X”) is intended as a voluntary option for the pornographic industry as a means to more easily identify it’s contents. It’s intended this will make identification and filtering easier for those who do not wish to view the contents.

The launch for the .XXX TLD is a coming soon as the industry prepares to support the new TLD, and rights holders and members of the adult industry need to be ready.

The launch phases for .XXX are:

Sunrise A – Trademark Holders (“AT”) – 7th Sept – 28th Oct:

This sunrise period provides an opportunity for members of the Adult Entertainment industry to submit applications for trademarks they hold pre-launch of the .XXX TLD.

Sunrise A – Domain Holders (“AD”) – 7th Sept – 28th Oct:

This sunrise period provides an opportunity for members of Sponsored Community (the Adult Entertainment industry) to submit applications for domains where they already hold registered domains in another IANA-recognised TLD – for example if you already operate an Adult website on a .com domain – pre-launch of the .XXX TLD.

Sunrise B – Non-community Trademark Holders (“B”) – 7th Sept – 28th Oct:

This sunrise period provides a pre-launch opportunity for those who are not part of the Sponsored Community to submit Reservation Requests for domains they hold registered trademarks for. Unlike standard .XXX registrations this kind of reservation will resolve to a standard informational page indicating the reserved status of the domain. This is not a typical registration and conveys no other rights for successful Sunrise B Applicants.

Landrush – 8th Nov – 25th Nov:

This is the final pre-launch opportunity for members of the Sponsored Community to submit Registration Requests for their chosen .XXX domain name. Domains are not allocated on the standard first-come, first-served basis; competing requests will be allocated based on a closed auction.

General Availability – 6th Dec:

Members of the Sponsored Community can register .XXX domains freely on a first-come, first served basis from this point on.

Non-members can apply on a first-come, first-served basis to register non-resolving .XXX names where they can show a legitimate interest, such as personal name.

Want to protect your .XXX domain?

Parties wishing to register or protect their trademarks and names .XXX can do so by contacting XDnet Sales who will be able to help you with the application process.

The .XXX TLD has and is a hotly debated topic, but what do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below! – Don’t forget to Tweet, Like and G+ this post if you liked it!

XDnet Web Services are pleased to launch even more domains bringing out current total to 151 domain TLDs available!

We now provide one of the widest selection of domain types available, with more than 30% of ALL TLDs available, and we are working hard with registries to provide even more! We are aiming to increase our selection further in the coming months and are aiming to support more than 45% of all available TLDs by 2012.

We of course want to celebrate this with a great 20% off most* domains when using promotional coupon “151tlds” at checkout! What are you waiting for? Get your domain now!

New Domain TLDs include:

As well as many others, check the out and grab yours today!

* Excluded TLDs include: .travel, .tm, .md, .jobs, .cm, .co.at, .ag, .af, .com.af, .net.af, .org.af

XDnet are always striving to provide more for our clients, and one of the ways we are doing this is through increasing our range of domain tlds to providing one of the largest ranges of domains, at some of the best prices around! We will be expanding our current offering of 54 tlds, to a whopping 150!

We are still working hard and negotiating the best prices and ensuring we have everything in place to fully support the huge selection of new TLDs and when there are 96 new TLDs it’s no easy challenge!

We will of course be offering some fantastic launch offers to help you make the most of these exciting new domains. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @xdnet and Like us on Facebook.com/xdnet to stay up to date with the latest on XDnet and be the first to hear about new and exclusive offers and discounts.

Popular TLDs we will soon be launching include:

We are pleased to be launching our all new VPS offering!

Our new VPS range is based on our excellent VPS Platform, which boasts:

• High-availability
• Redundant iSCSI SAN Storage
• Instant Node Fail-over
• Green Nodes
• strict No Overselling policy
• And much more…

No longer put up with overcrowded, oversold and unreliable VPS servers!

We are offering 2 types of VPS package, a fixed package such as the Starter, Pro and Business or a Custom package which allows you to select how many resource blocks you need and all the added extras in an easy order form with a huge variety of OS Templates, including CentOS 5.5 with cPanel, Gentoo and a selection of Windows Server flavours the choice is yours. So why not build-your-own VPS today?

Each Resource Block Includes:

• 256MB RAM
• 8GB Disk
• 200GB Transfer (Bandwidth)

Get started today from as little as £5.00!

To launch our new VPS Range we are offering a fantastic 50% off the first 3 months! Simply use coupon “VPSWelcome” on checkout to save! – http://xdnet.co.uk/vps/

We are pleased to announce 3 new domain gTlds are now available from XDnet! We are pleased to now be offering .CA (Canada), .DE (Germany) and .ES (Spain).

We are also running some fantastic domain promotions and introductory offers.

Get .DE and .ES for just £7.50!

Get .IN for just £3.50! (Save over £11!)

Get .Mobi for just £9.00! (Save over £11!)

Get your domains now!

We are also offer huge 20% off all domain names using promo code “Save20″ on checkout – See Terms and conditions

Don’t forget to checkout our April Newsletter for other great deals on SSL Certificates too!

We have recently changed the way we deal with Spam management on our web servers.

Now under cPanel you can find an icon for “MailScanner” this has replaced SpamAssassin and enable our system administrators, and you, to more effectively manage and prevent Spam.

This system utilises many virus scanners and spam detection techniques, and will enable us to achieve a much higher spam and virus detection rates and easily manage and tag spam.

If you have any questions or comments regarding these changes please do not hesitate to contact support who will happily answer any queries you may have.

Some FAQ about MailScanner:

• Will spam be deleted before I retrieve my email?No email is deleted from your mailbox, unless you configure it to do so through the cPanel control panel. Any email reported by the system as spam will have the subject line modified and header records added (tagged) to indicate them so that you can automatically filter them from your inbox and place them in a separate folder so that you can check them at a later time. You can configure MailScanner to delete email marked as Spam and/or Definitely Spam for you, but beware of the issues in the following answers to spam related questions.
• Should I tell you about incorrectly tagged spam?Not unless it is an email from someone you regularly receive email from. The simplest thing to do would be to add an extra inbox rule in your email client to keep email from them in your inbox. Alternatively, you can add them to your whitelist in the cPanel MailScanner configuration.
• Will all spam be detected?
  
  No. All the email is scanned and assigned a score based on the likelihood that an email is spam. Thresholds (low scoring and high scoring spam) are used to determine whether an email should be tagged as spam: it is important that this is done to help avoid false-positives and false-negatives.
• Is all email tagged as spam, spam?
  
  Not necessarily. The system is not foolproof and there will be instances where legitimate email is tagged as spam and where spam is not tagged as such. This is why all email is delivered by default, so you can filter them email in your email client and check through the spam to ensure there is no email that you actually need.
• I don’t need (spam/virus) checking, can I only have email scanned for one?
  
  Yes, you can configure the service to either scan for viruses, spam or both.
• Will viruses be deleted before I retrieve my email?
  
  Yes, if you set Virus Scanning to yes in the MailScanner Front-end. All emails and file attachments will be scanned for viruses. If one is found, the virus is removed from the email before it is delivered to your mailbox, a text file attachment will be added to the email notifying you of the virus infection. Removed viruses and dangerous file attachments removed from email may be stored in a quarantine area on the server for 30 days. You can request the file from quarantine as described in the text file attachments, or , preferably ask the sender to resend the file in a zip archive.
• Will all viruses be detected?No system can guarantee 100% detection, though nearly all infected files and dangerous file attachments should be detected using this service. The service scans all email received and sent through the server to help ensure that you do not accidentally start spreading a virus yourself.
• Do I still need a virus scanner on my computer?
  
  Yes! Not only can the service not guarantee that all email viruses will be detected, there are many other ways that your computer can become infected. You should always install an anti-virus solution on every computer and ensure that it is constantly kept up to date.
• How do I know whether and email has a virus or is a spam?There are two methods used to identify these emails to you. Firstly, the subject line of the affected email will be prefixed with one of the following:
  • {Disarmed} – indicates that the email contained html tags that are considered dangerous, e.g. iframe and form tags
  • {Virus?} – indicates that the email contained a virus and has had the attachment removed.
  • {Filename?} – indicates that the email contained a dangerous file attachment which has been removed.
  • {Spam?} – indicates that the email is likely to be spam – you should filter these emails into a separate folder in your email client.
  • {Definitely Spam?} – indicates that the email is almost definitely spam because it got a very high detection score – you should filter these emails into a separate folder in your email client.

  Secondly, additional headers are added to the email:

  • X-___________-VirusCheck: Found to be clean – indicates that the email passed the virus scanning tests.
  • X-___________-VirusCheck: Found to be infected – indicates that email email contained a virus which has been removed.
  • X-___________-SpamCheck: spam – indicates that the email is likely to be spam and contains information on how the score was reached.
  • X-___________-SpamScore: ssssss – indicates the spam score for the email. Each s represents 1 point, so sssss indicates a score of 5. The service has a default threshold of 5 for {Spam?} and 20 for {Definitely Spam?}
• Can the system simply delete all email marked as spam?
  
  We advise against this as it is possible that legitimate email will be deleted and the sender will never know that you didn’t receive it. We recommend filteringthe email in your email client and placing it in a separate folder so that you can check through it in your own time.If you’re happy that email marked as {Spam?}, and/or more suitably {Definitely Spam?} you can then configure MailScanner to delete that email.

  Another alternative is to have all email marked as {Spam?}, and/or more suitably {Definitely Spam?} delivered to a specific email address. For example, spam@mydomain.com.

• How do I configure my email software to filter spam into a separate folder?You should create a separate folder in your email client called Spam. You should then create an inbox rule to place any email containing the strings {Spam?} or {Definitely Spam?} into that folder.

  We have instructions on how to do this with Outlook Express and Outlook here.

• What can I do to prevent receiving spam?Have a look at the self-help checklist here.

As per scheduled we have been busy migrating clients from our Monty Server to a new, and much more powerful server.

We have now migrated client accounts to the new server, however until DNS has completed propagating your site may still be served from the old server.

Any changes made, such as settings of file changes, may only be changed on the old server, and once propagation has completed will not be reflected on the new server.

For this reason we advise you make no changes to your account for a few hours to avoid this problem.

For advanced users, check your domains are resolving to the new (Camelot) server 178.239.161.90 BEFORE making changes.

We will update the Network Notice as we progress through the migration process.

We will begin moving NS1 to the new server shortly.

If you have any questions or comments please don’t hesitate to get in contact with us by emailing support@xdnet.co.uk, or via Live Chat.

We are very excited to launch our new website which we hope will help both new and existing customers find what they need faster and easier.

With the new site, we are offering some fantastic promotions on many of our new and existing products.

New Products:

SSL Certificates

We have now officially launched our range of GlobalSign SSL Certificates starting at just £20 per year!

Order your SSL certificate before April 30th and Save £5 using promo code “CheapSSL” on checkout – We will also install your SSL certificate absolutely free on any XDnet Web Hosting Package or Server!

Unlimited Shoutcast Streaming

As well as a completely new Shoutcast Streaming page we are also launching Unlimited Shoutcast Streaming.

Unlimited shoutcast streaming enables premium online radio stations and shoutcast resellers to stream without limits, you can choose any bitrate and any slots enabling you to stream to thousands of listeners without worrying about limits – For just £245 per month (Save £490 when ordering yearly!).

As a special introductory offer we are offering a fantastic deal on our Unlimited Streaming package – We will double whatever you buy! – Buy 1 month get one free! Buy a year, get a year free!

New Look:

We have also reformed the vast majority of our site to make it easier for our clients, including a new Support Area with all the details and information you need to get the help you need, fast.

We have reformed pricing on many of our products to help us provide a high-quality service as well as making prices clearer, particularly with domain names, clients can find details and full and easy pricing tables for all domains.

Don’t forget, we include FREE Privacy Protection, FREE Domain Theft Protection and reduced transfer-in fees as well as  many other benefits – Get 10% off your domain name now using “CheapDomains” at checkout.

What do you think?

So, take a look around the new site and why not share your thoughts on what we did right, and what we can improve on – All who complete the survey will be entered into a random prize draw to win £20 account credit!

Click here to complete the XDnet Site Survey!

For a limited time only XDnet are slashing the price of .CO domain names to just £10!

Register your .CO domain now for just £10 and get the hottest domain on the market now.