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This innovative web hosting Control Panel is now translated and available in Dutch. Starting today, all clients from the Netherlands will be able to use it in their native language.

The addition of the Dutch language is a result of our commitment to offer excellent customer support. You can change the language of the web hosting control panel through the drop-down menu at the top right of the control panel as well as through the Customize Control Panel section of the My Account drop-down menu at the top of the control panel or through the Customize Control Panel icon at the bottom of the home page of the web hosting control panel.

The hosting Control Panel has been equipped with another tool, designed to give you more control over your domain’s sender policy.

As you may already know, domains use public records (DNS) to direct requests for different services (web, e-mail, etc.) to the computers that perform those services. All domains have e-mail (MX) records to tell the world what computers receive mail for the domain.

SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework, and is an extension of SMTP that stops e-mail spammers from forging the “From” fields in an e-mail. As SMTP itself does not carry an authenticating mechanism, the SPF extension provides the authentication scheme by specifying which computers are authorized to send e-mail from a specific domain. In order to use SPF, the domain sending e-mails must establish an SPF record that is published in the DNS records.

SPF works by publishing “reverse MX” records to tell the world what machines are authorized to send mail from the domain. When receiving an e-mail message, the recipient can check those records to make sure mail is coming from where it should be coming from. This means that the sender domain is compared to the SPF record for that domain to determine if the e-mail sender is indeed authorized to transmit e-mails from that particular address. If the e-mail comes from a domain that is not authorized, the DNS server will disregard the e-mail request. In other words, SPF prevents people from stealing your e-mail addresses and pretending that it is you who send junk/spam e-mail to other people.

Please note that these settings are for advanced users only!

For more detailed information, you may check the Show/Hide Help in the SPF section itself.

You can now perform variuos operations with one or more of your domain names simultaneously. Depending on the current domain status, you can renew registration, edit WHOIS information, edit DNS settings, lock/unlock at the registrar, register name servers and obtain EPP authorization key. Simply use the checkboxes on the left to select domain names and then perform a desired action by clicking on the corresponding button.

The registrar-lock feature is quite useful when you would like to secure your domain name and prevent it from being stolen. To check the current status of the lock, simply click on the icon beside a domain name. You can then lock or unlock it prior to a domain transfer. However, you should always keep your domain names locked.

Most of the top domain registrars now require that each domain name has its own EPP key. The EPP Authorization Key represents a code, which is required when authorizing domain transfers. If you would like to obtain the EPP key for a specific domain name, simply click on the EPP icon. An EPP key is available only for domain names registered with us and with status OK.

We are happy to announce that the entire Domain Registration section of the hosting Control Panel has been updated to accomodate the new bulk domain registrations and transfers.

From now on, you will be able to register up to 50 domain names at once. For every single domain name search query you put, you will get a result showing you whether the particular domain is available for registration or transfer.

If you’d like to register or transfer the .com, .org, .net, .us, .info, .biz SLD of a domain name, simply take advantage of the multiple domain registrations and transfers we are now offering!

We would like to announce that all domain registrations and transfers will be temporary unavailable on Saturday. Our domain registrar is adding a new data center in order to improve the quality of the services.

The migration will cause a short service outage from 01:00 AM GMT to 11:00 AM GMT on Saturday, August 5, so that these changes take effect. For our US customers, the outage will start on Friday, August 4, at 5:00 PM PDT, and will end on Saturday, August 5, at 3:00 AM PDT.

All domain registrations and transfers will be pending until the registration system is back online. Our Sales department will approve your account orders but the domain registrations and transfers will be delayed while the changes are taking effect. Existing domain names will operate without interruptions.

Thank you in advance for your understanding!

Hello,

We are happy to announce that we have just added some tweaks and new features into our great hosting Control Panel. The quick and easy help tooltips now show over all icons on the Home page when you point your mouse over them. A RSS news generator has been added to the Elefante tools section. You are now able to modify the MX records of your subdomain names.

If you are not sure what a certain section of the Control Panel does, simpy point your mouse over its icon and learn more from the easy-to-understand tooltip. It’s really quick to receive help this way, isn’t it?

The Elefante Tools sections now offers an additional feature – the RSS News. It allows you to add free news content onto your website. Specify the news category and paste the code, that’s all you need to do in order to present up-to-date information on your website.

And even more, you are now able to edit the MX records for your subdomain names that you have created in your hosting account. This is done in the Custom DNS Records section.

We hope these improvements will be a great value for you!