It is essential that users reach the right website, which may require redirecting a domain. Essentially, domain redirects can be carried out on both the server side as well as the client side. These are divided into two categories. The first one consists of redirects via…
Internationalised domain names (IDNs) significantly increase the number of potential combinations for domains. With this system, Spanish speakers can use accents in words like ‘México’ or ‘Bogotá’. And in the German-speaking world, umlauts and the ‘ß’ can finally be used. IDNs,…
If you own a website, you should know that it needs to be continually maintained and adjusted. But in addition to normal tasks such as administration, maintaining content, and web design, sometimes radical, fundamental changes need to be made. These are especially necessary if…
Have you tried to register your brand’s domain, only to find it’s already taken? You might be dealing with cybersquatting, a malicious practice that violates name or trademark rights, often leading to legal disputes. We’ll explain cybersquatters’ tactics, discuss cybersquatting…
If well-ranked sites suddenly disappear from the search engine index, it can be for a number of different reasons. One possible reason is that the crawler could no longer check the pages in question, or it could have identified duplicate content. Another reason, often unknown to…
For years, a successor to the domain query protocol Whois has been in development. For several reasons the protocol, developed at the same time as the internet predecessor ARPANET, is no longer regarded as modern or up to date. But now the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP)…
Since the introduction of internationalised domain names in 2003, Punycode can be seen everywhere on the internet. While internet addresses like 'xn--mller-brombel-rmb4fg.de' look peculiar they fulfill an important function. They encode non-ASCII characters into ASCII-compatible…
When a website suddenly stops responding and you realise you’ve lost domain control, you’re faced with a critical situation. Is it just a technical bug or have cyber criminals possibly hijacked the website? It is important to quickly determine the cause. In this article, we show…