No-IP.com is proud to announce support for Private Registration for domain registration.

For those of you that are not familiar with this, private registration allows you to retain your privacy after purchasing a domain. Instead of having your information and contact email address published to the WHOIS database, an alternate set of information will be used. When someone looks up your domain in the WHOIS database they will see the private registration contact information, not yours. The private registration provider will then act as an in between or third party to keep people from directly contacting you or seeing your information. This is most useful to keep your contact information away from spammers, scammers, stalkers or any other un-wanted person. To find out more about No-IP.com’s private registration take a look over here.

We recently added a few more common router setup guides to our support section. These new guides cover the task of setting up port forwarding on your home cable/dsl common router. For a lot of people, setting up port forwarding can be a daunting task if they have never done it before. With our new guides, you can easily walk yourself through the setup process with easy to follow screen shots and instructions.

We currently have a guide certain common routers including DLink, Linksys and NetGear routers. View the router tips in our Tips & Guides section.

Check back soon as we will be adding many more common routers to the port forwarding guide!

Today the No-IP Mac OS X Dynamic Update client (DUC) version 3.1.1 was added to Apple’s download repository. You can find our client in their downloads section under “Networking and Security” or directly by following this link. With our service becoming ever more popular among Mac users, there is no better way to get the word out about our service. Remember you can still grab the latest versions of our dynamic update client for Mac OS X and Classic from our Mac Downloads section.

No-IP.com would like to announce two new third party update clients that support our services. For the Unix and Linux crowd, RunDNS is a versatile client that runs on just about every flavor of Unix. For the Windows users, Rcon Software has developed myDynIPPro version 2.8.5 to support No-IP.com’s services and can be found at this link.

Keep in mind due to the number of third party update clients,  No-IP does not provide support for third party update clients and software.

Version 3.1.1 of the Mac OSX No-IP DUC (Dynamic Update Client) has been released today.  This is a recommended update for all Mac OSX users.  The DUC is now stable under Mac OSX Tiger. It also corrects issues with the daemon feature.

Visit our Mac downloads page to grab the latest version.

Like many of you this weekend I woke up to hundreds of German spam messages in my Junk mail box. This is due to a very fast spreading variant of the Sober worm (Sober.Q).

Check out this article over at Yahoo news:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/120846

If you are using the No-IP POP3 service. A spam hit level of about 7 seems to block out the majority of these. A lower number will insure that most of them reach your junk folder.

Today we added a new guide to our Support section of our site. The new guide discusses using Microsoft’s Remote Desktop (RDP) application with No-IP.com’s services. We also re-vamped our Alternate Port SMTP setup guide for Microsoft Exchange. The changes to the Alternate Port SMTP guide address configuration changes when using the Small Business Server edition of Exchange. You can view both of the guides here.

We love to receive feedback from our users. If you have any suggestions for new guides that should be added to our knowledge base or have a contribution of your own drop us a line by commenting on this blog or opening a support trouble ticket.

In case you missed the article in PC Magazine, No-IP.com was mentioned in an article on how to remotely access your computer over the Internet.   The PC magazine article can be found over at ABC news by clicking here.  Accessing your computer using remote access software such as VNC, PCAnywhere or Remote Desktop is a common use for No-IP.com’s services, especially when most ISP’s use hard to remember dynamic IP addresses.

The article explains how to access one computer remotely with our No-IP Free service, but also keep in mind that you can remotely manage and access multiple computers using No-IP’s  Enhanced and Plus Managed DNS services.

No-IP RSS 2.0 feeds are now available!  Today RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds for our “Support FAQ” and  “Tips & Guides” sections were released.  Now you can add them to a news agergator of your choosing and get the latest support information or save it for offline reading.

A complete list of RSS feeds is located at:
http://www.no-ip.com/support/rss

If you do not already have a RSS news aggregator here is a list of a few.  Firefox users should also checkout the Sage 1.3 extension.