Welcome to the first post in my UK-Namespace category. This category will be used to look at the current state of the .UK domain space and provide statistics on the .UK space from a private database.

I wanted to start by looking at the confusion surrounding .me.uk domains.

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As many of you know, I’ve been involved in the link development business for quite some years.

I’ve compiled a report of the paid links for 5 bluechip companies. Outlining the page, cost, placement style, PR and such like.

Download: Link report

If you’re on a shared hosting server, you should be extremely careful to apply the correct permissions to your configuration files. Failure to do so, can leave them open to viewing by other users on the server. It’s then a trivial matter for the user to connect to the database server and modify posts. steal customer data and so on.

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Keep-Dead DoS

I spent some time reading through the HTTP protocol, for another project. After playing around, I discovered that even with very limited bandwidth, you can perform an effective denial of service(DoS) attack against a web server.

Back in the day, when botnets were a rarity and bandwidth came at a premium, most DoS attacks relied on tying up services (e.g Apache) with fake requests. It didn’t take long for software makers to adapt to these attacks and come up with effective filters.

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In this article, I’ll explain a way that you can auto-hide (kinda) the bookmark toolbar in Google Chrome on Mac OS X. I personally like to use as few toolbars as possible in my browsers, since they eat up valuable screen real-estate. I’ve never really been a fan of the Bookmarks toolbar, but with my increased preference to use the HTTPS version of the sites I login to, I’ve began relying on the bookmarks toolbar to avoid accidentally visiting the non-HTTP version of a site.

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