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Did you know that more than 90% of all email traffic is spam? As a hosting provider, VEVIDA deals with a lot of spam every day. We block a large portion of all spam by using blacklists. Blacklists are lists of IP addresses that are known to be sources of spam.

As of 12 January, significantly less personal data is shown in the public whois of a .nl domain. The whois allows you to see who holds the domain, and their contact information.

The promotion that VEVIDA ran in December 2009 for its regular customers was a great success. Many people took advantage of the €10 discount and registered an extra domain name or extension. The result was that the number of registrations in December was almost twice as high as in a normal month.

There is a very simple technology that allows visitors to your website to email you via your website, for instance to place an order, ask a question or to keep you updated.

In November, Vevida was awarded the status of Gold Certified Partner in the Microsoft Partner Program. The granting of this certificate is a recognition of our expertise by Microsoft. Vevida was rewarded for its competence in ‘Hosting Solutions’ and ‘Networking Infrastructure Solutions’.

On 1 December, VEVIDA will start accepting advance registrations of the new .eu domains with non-Roman characters (IDNs).

VEVIDA has been one of the best hosting providers in Holland and Belgium for more than 10 years. We are proud of our company and proud to have you as a customer for our services.

SIDN, the body responsible for the registration of .nl domains, is changing on 17 February 2010 to a new domain registration system (DRS5).

EURid, the registry of .eu-domains, will support so-called IDNs as of 10 December 2009. IDN stands for “Internationalised Domain Names”. For the first time, residents of the European Union can register a .eu-domain with symbols that are not in the “standard” alphabet. Examples of these include the Swedish å, the German ü, the Romanian ş and the full Bulgarian and Greek alphabets.

You already have a free MySQL database with your hosting package. This is used to store data from free software for websites, such as weblogs (for example WordPress and Joomla) and web shops (osCommerce and ZenChart). In this way, you can use these kinds of tools for your website immediately. Microsoft SQL Server is a good choice for more professional applications.