Have you received an "Urgent Domain Notice" letter from DROA - Domain Registry of Australia, Domain Registry of America, Domain Names Australia Pty Ltd or similar? Watch out for unscrupulous companies trying to deceive you into losing your domain name. Please be warned to watch out for a scam which could see them switch your domain name registrar, charge you higher renewal fees and take control of your domain name. This type of misleading and deceptive conduct as well as "domain slamming" has been going on for a number years. Please be warned.

If you have received such a notice and wish to renew your domain name, we advise that you contact us as soon as possible. Please do not follow the How To Renew instructions contained within the notice without first speaking to us. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Vendhost directly on (07) 5514 0492.

If your domain name is registered through Vendhost you will not receive a renewal notice in the post. All renewal notices from Vendhost are sent via email. Please ensure that your email contact details with Vendhost are up-to-date. We email out domain name renewal notices at 60-days, 30-days and Final days to the expiration date. All emails come from our Sales department "Vendhost - Sales" and include your domain name in the subject line: "Renewal Notice For DOMAIN - ....."

NOTE: Recently we came upon an unfortunate fact that spam filtering systems of some major free email service providers (e.g.: gmail, hotmail, yahoo and MSN) identify our emails as spam. Please take a look in your SPAM folder and unblacklist the vendhost.com domain to receive notifications from us in the future.

All Vendhost hosting packages have an interface for maintaining and monitoring your website. Our interface is a web-based control panel called cPanel. cPanel has been designed to make administration of hosting accounts easy by you the end-user. The most common tasks our customers perform help them maintain their accounts. These tasks include:

• Visitor statistics using web log analysis software
• Details of available and used webspace and bandwidth
• Web based file manager
• Email account configuration and maintanance
• Managing databases
• Maintaining FTP users accounts
• Access to server logs

While not everyone uses their cPanel it is a good idea to at least perform the following maintanance each month:

• Check disk usage or webspace usage
• Delete old emails sitting within email accounts on the server

Other important things you can do using your cPanel:

• Prevent SPAM on your hosting account
• Enable SpamAssassin on your Email Account
• Create an Email Filter

I hope that you find Vendmail of interest. To ensure that you do not miss an issue please confirm your subscription now. Click on the confirm link at the top of this email or within the Subscribe box in the left-hand column.

Collaborating your ideas and input with our experience and expertise we can design your website from the beginning or redesign your existing site. We work within any budget and deliver great results. For more information please visit our web design site, contact us or request a quote today.