November 2005

In This Months Issue:

Adhost Spotlight

INTERFACE 2005

Is it cool? Afterschool…

School's Out Washington is a statewide non-profit that has been providing training, advocacy and leadership to improve the quality and availability of afterschool programs since 1987. As their reach and services expanded, they outgrew the architecture of their first web site. After acquiring a grant, they came to Adhost with a finite budget and timeline looking for the tools to radically increase the ways in which their web site could support their work and serve as a resource for the afterschool field nationwide. Adhost delivered a fully content-managed website - on time and on budget - that allows School's Out staff to easily manage their content. They tell us we earned a gold star...
http://schoolsoutwashington.org

INTERFACE 2005 Invitation

Come learn about technology solutions for your company and visit Adhost's booth at the INTERFACE 2005 IT trade show, coming to the Washington State Convention and Trade Center on December 1. Interface is a one-day educational conference focusing on the challenges most critical to today's private sector and government organizations:

* Network & Information Security
* Business Continuance / Disaster Recovery
* Regulatory Compliance

Pre-registration is required to attend the conference and closes on Monday, Nov. 28th. To register, visit: http://www.f2fevents.com/register_seattle.htm
(When registering, please indicate that Adhost referred you to INTERFACE.)

Domain Name Servers (DNS) Reminder

We are working on phasing out our old Domain Name Servers (DNS), NS1.ADHOST.COM and NS2.ADHOST.COM. Instead all domain names which are registered to be controlled by Adhost should now list NS.ADHOST.COM and NS0.ADHOST.COM as the "Domain Servers" for the domain name. If you are registering a domain yourself, you should no longer use the old NS1.ADHOST.COM and NS2.ADHOST.COM name servers. Instead, please use these:

NS.ADHOST.COM	216.211.128.11

NS0.ADHOST.COM	66.119.192.10

In the near future, we will be turning off the old domain name servers. We expect this to occur on or about December 1, 2005. After that time, Adhost DNS servers will no longer authoritatively resolve your domain unless it is set to use NS.ADHOST.COM and NS0.ADHOST.COM, so it is very important that you make this change, if it is needed for your domain(s). To check the DNS for your domain name, go to http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/. Enter your domain name. At the bottom of the "whois record" you will see the DNS servers listed under "Domain servers in listed order." Should you have any questions about these changes, please send an email to support@adhost.com.

Search Engine Marketing Tips

1) Whether you're a search engine marketing expert or novice, you'll find useful information in iProspect's library of white papers, webinars and other tools: iProspect Search Engine Marketing Webinars, White Papers and Tools.

2) MSN is in the process of rolling out its own pay-per-click (PPC) auction called adCenter. Until now, MSN used Yahoo! Search PPC results, but in the next few months, those will be phased out and replaced with adCenter ones. If you want your sponsored ads to appear in MSN searches, you'll need to set up an adCenter account. For more information: http://www.clickz.com/experts/search/strat/article.php/3559371