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Last week, .myDomainregistry upgraded their registration and modification system to enhance the overall performance. Certain addresses and URLs have been changed to reflect the new system. If you need to modify your domain name (.my extensions only) kindly follow this link

The new system also require you to log in using handle. If you could not remember your handle, you can conduct whois to check the correct Admin/billing or technical handle. You can conduct whois here or at the registry’s web site.

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SEOUL: The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names – or addresses – that can be written in languages other than English, an official said Monday.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN – the non-profit group that oversees domain names – is holding a meeting this week in Seoul.

Domain names are the monikers behind every website, e-mail address and Twitter post, such as “.com” and other suffixes.

One of the key issues to be taken up by ICANN’s board at this week’s gathering is whether to allow for the first time entire Internet addresses to be in scripts that are not based on Latin letters. That could potentially open up the Web to more people around the world as addresses could be in characters as diverse as Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Hindi and Cyrillic – in which Russian is written.

“This is the biggest change technically to the Internet since it was invented 40 years ago,” Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of the ICANN board, told reporters, calling it a “fantastically complicated technical feature.” He said he expects the board to grant approval on Friday, the conference’s final day.

The Internet’s roots are traced to experiments at a US university in 1969 but it wasn’t until the early 1990s that its use began expanding beyond academia and research institutions to the general public.

Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s new president and CEO, said that if the change is approved, ICANN would begin accepting applications for non-English domain names and that the first entries into the system would likely come sometime in mid-2010.

Enabling the change, Thrush said, is the creation of a translation system that allows multiple scripts to be converted to the right address.

“We’re confident that it works because we’ve been testing it now for a couple of years,” he said. “And so we’re really ready to start rolling it out.”

Of the 1.6 billion Internet users worldwide, Beckstrom – a former chief of US cybersecurity – said that more than half use languages that have scripts based on alphabets other than Latin.

“So this change is very much necessary for not only half the world’s Internet users today, but more than half of probably the future users as the use of the Internet continues to spread,” he said.

Beckstrom, in earlier remarks to conference participants, recalled that many people had said just three to five years ago that using non-Latin scripts for domain names would be impossible to achieve.

“But you the community and the policy groups and staff and board have worked through them, which is absolutely incredible,” he said.

ICANN is headquartered in the United States in Marina del Rey, California. – AP

Source TheStar

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By MAZWIN NIK ANIS
mazwin@thestar.com.my

CYBERJAYA: The Government has directed the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM) to study the reasons behind the high cost of providing Information Technology (IT) services in the country.

Information, Communications, Culture and Arts Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said there were numerous complaints on how expensive it was to obtain IT services here, while the quality — particularly connection availability and speed — was not up to expectation.

“The Government would also like to know why the cost for IT services is high in Malaysia. Consumers’ main grouse is that they are charged more compared with users in other countries but the quality of service is not up to mark.

“We want to know how it (the cost) can be brought down and at the same time improve on the quality,” he told reporters after a briefing at the SKMM on Wednesday.

Rais said SKMM must also see to it that providers deliver what they promised consumers, adding that if a provider promised Internet surfing speeds of 10Mb (megabits) per second, the public should not be experiencing a “slow as tortoise service at one or two megabits.”

He said providers whose services failed to meet expectation must be dealt with, adding this was where the Commission, as the enforcement authority, should play its role to ensure the public was not shortchaged,

Rais said efforts must be taken to close the digital gap between rural and urban areas, adding that fixed telephone line providers must expedite the laying of optical fibre cables so that people in districts and kampungs (villages) could also enjoy Internet service.

On another matter, the minister said 11 cases related to violations committed in cyberspace had been to court, adding the nature of cases included sending lewd and vulgar SMSes and e-mail, and comments insulting the Sultan of Perak.

He said there were a “good number of cases” that had been brought to the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the Commission would leave it to the A-G to decide whether or not prosecute the offenders.

Rais reminded the Commission of its responsibility to ensure that all cyberspace users in the country follow laws and regulations, adding it should not hesitate to take action against violators.

“I must however stress that we are not practising censorship but there are laws that need to be respected and adhered to.

“The public’s interest and safety, as well as the country’s security, need to be looked after and that is why the Commission must do its job to see to it that users follow guidelines,” he said.

Source : TheStar

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This month we are very busy upgrading our servers to suPHP. The task is near completion and most sites are now running with suPHP.
Php is now running as user and all files will be owned by the user. So say goodbye to “nobody” owned files. You will no longer have to deal with operation not permitted when attempting to delete nobody owned files.

Hardware wise, we are also converting our servers to RAID1 setup. This will be done by stages. This will increase our server reliability and speed.

Raid 1 Setup

We will also use third drive as Cpanel backup that keep daily, weekly and monthly backup in case you need to revert. We will put up a notice in the client area in case your web site will be relocated to the new server.

We would like to thank our customers and resellers, thanks for your support, sorry do not give out free calendars or movie tickets just to show our appreciation to. We say by upgrading our network, servers and service.

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Step 1 – Backing up using phpMyAdmin
1. Login to phpMyAdmin.

2. Select the database you wish to use.

3. On the navigation bar on the top, select “Export” (besides SQL, Structure, Search, Query… etc.)

4. You should now be presented with a nifty little page which shows all the tables in the database, SQL Options and Save Types. *

5. To backup the whole database, click “Select All” under the list of tables in the page.

6. To backup a selected few, just hold down CTRL on your keyboard and select the tables you wish to backup (release the key when all selecting is done).

7. SQL Options can be left as default, but I suggest ticking the “Add DROP TABLE” option as if you are restoring a backup on a database that already exists and has the table in it – you will get a lot of errors! This way, by ticking the “Add DROP TABLE” option you will avoid the errors. For more information on the options just click the little “?” icon after SQL Options.

8. If you want to save the backup as a file (recommended) then tick “Save as file” – Leave file name as is or edit for your needs. Select “gzipped” as compression. Now click “Go”. If asked, choose “Save to disk” and save it wherever on your computer (it may take sometime depending on the size).

9. If you want to show the whole backup SQL on your browser window, don’t tick “Save as file” – once you have selected the tables you wish to backup (explained in step 5/6) click “Go”. The page will now change and should show the SQL information (it may take sometime depending on the size). Copy and paste it to a text file or do whatever you want with it!

Note: Yes, the tables of the database will be shown to the far left in a frame, but they will also be displayed in a different form on this new page to the right in phpMyAdmin.

Congratulations! You have successfully backed up your database / selected tables!
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