On many occasions I have found people posting on forums asking ‘what affect does having my UK domain hosted in the US have on my search engine traffic?’. On most of the occasions, I have given people a list of SEO articles, including some by Mat Cutts. In my opinion, a UK domain should always be hosted in the UK, it is more precise and you will always get a good traffic ranking in UK search engines, it will also help you target your UK audience in a better way.

Looking into this further, it is my personal view that Google wants to list sites are are of different interests to people in their target country, so it’s better to prioritize results on google.co.uk, as well as other local search engines that would be able to accurately determine the ‘local search’ listing. If you have a UK domain which is not hosted in the UK, I highly suggest that you find a UK host for your domain as soon as you can; it is from my own personal experience that after doing this I had better results in local search listings, as well gaining a better sales conversion.

However, it is most important that you get a stable and reliable UK hosting company that ensure a robust level of support and maintenance on the server, backed by quality guarantees and so on; their network & infrastructure is tuned with latest technology & infrastructure with fast and effective service & support. You need to be able to retain your peace of mind as well as your time and efforts by avoiding changing from host to host in pursuit of a better deal.
In this case I would like to thank the eUKhost team in this post for their professionalism and great service, bost of which have always been the best. They are one of the only UK web hosts which you can trust, and their customer services sets them apart from the rest.
-Adam Taylor

Understanding the Registry :

The registry is the complete repository of the system.
The Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP Registry is a complex, unified, system wide database, used for storing, locating, editing and administering the system, hardware, software which follows a hierarchical structure.
It was introduced to replace the text/ASCII based MS-DOS configuration (.BAT, .SYS) and MS Windows initialization (.INI) files.

Registry Structure :

The registry is divided into five separate structures that represent the registry database completely. These five groups are known as keys and they are as below given ;

1) HKEY_CURRENT_USER
This registry key contains the configuration information for the user that is currently logged in. The users folders, screen colors, and control panel settings are stored here. This information is known as a User Profile.

2) HKEY_USERS
In windowsNT 3.5x, user profiles were stored locally (by default) in the systemroot\system32\config directory. In NT4.0, they are stored in the systemroot\profiles directory. User-Specific information is kept there, as well as common, system wide user information.

3) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
This key contains configuration information particular to the computer. This information is stored in the systemroot\system32\config directory as persistent operating system files, with the exception of the volatile hardware key.

4) HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
The information stored here is used to open the correct application when a file is opened by using Explorer and for Object Linking and Embedding. It is actually a window that reflects information from the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software subkey.

5) HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
The information contained in this key is to configure settings such as the software and device drivers to load or the display resolution to use. This key has a software and system subkeys, which keep track of configuration information.

Each of these keys is divided into subkeys, which may contain further subkeys, and so on. Any key may contain entries with various types of values. The values of these entries can be ;

- String Value
- Binary Value (0 or 1)
- DWORD Value, a 32 bit unsigned integer
- Multi-String Value
- Expandable String Value

Editing Registry :

Always make sure that you know what you are doing when changing the registry or else just one little mistake can crash the whole system. That’s why it’s always good to back it up !
To view the registry (or to back it up), you need to use the Registry Editor tool. There are two versions of Registry Editor ;

To modify the Registry, you need to use a Registry Editor as :

- Start
- Run
- Regedit.exe (Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP) = located in %WinBootDir% (%SystemRoot%) has the most menu items and more choices for the menu items. You can search for keys and subkeys in the registry.
- Regedt32.exe (Windows NT/2000/XP) = located in %SystemRoot%\System32,enables you to search for strings, values, keys, and subkeys. This feature is useful if you want to find specific data.

What is REG Files ?

.reg file, which can be in the for of ;
- Plain text/ASCII format in Windows 95/98/ME and NT/2000/XP or
- Binary format in Windows 2000/XP

Text .REG files can be easily viewed/created/edited by hand using any text/ASCII editor, like Notepad.

Their purpose is to add, modify or delete Registry (Sub) Keys and/or Values.

Hello Friends,

If you are getting following error with email while receiving emails

2007-01-03 14:14:33 1H2BZ9-0007EK-HY => supp0rt_test@yahoo.com R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp

H=d.mx.mail.yahoo.com [216.39.53.2]
2007-01-03 14:15:05 H=web32905.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.69.82] F= rejected RCPT : web32905.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.69.82] is currently not permitted to relay through this server. Perhaps you have not logged into the pop/imap server in the last 30 minutes or do not have SMTP Authentication turned on in your email client.
For the above error please check the entry of domain in /etc/localdomains of the server.

#grep domain.com /etc/localdomains

If the entry is missing then you get such an error. The domain must be in ‘/etc/localdomains’, once it has been placed there the error should disappear.
Tuks…..