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Digital Security: Domain Ransom at Computerbright.com

Another scam hits my inbox! Developer's wouldn't find this one particularly interesting, but it's exactly the kind of e-mail I expect my clients would follow up on. Also, cool twist: it involves Nazis. The premise is simple: we own a version of your domain, and unless you pay us for it your brand will suffer. If you're a business owner and you've received an e-mail from computerbright.com, know that nothing about them seems legit.

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Here's what it looks like; I get an e-mail from "Nathan" at computerbright.com explaining that his company owns the .NET version of my domain. Obviously, if I care about branding, I'll want to buy the domain from them. Since benevolence is a pillar of their core beliefs, computerbright.com is willing to part with the domain for a mere $599 dollars.

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How to Kill your Drupal Site: Billing

Part 1 in an ongoing series of blog posts discussing how you can bring your site down. Part 1 looks at an easily neglected element of development opperations: billing for things like SSL certificates and domain names.

Today I'd like to look at one of the most obvious, but least thought of, reasons for why sites stop working. Plain and simple--it's billing. Drupal may be free* (with an asterisk), but even with an open source CMS, you'll likely be signing up for any number of products and services in order to run your site. Your server, your domain, your SSL Certificate--these are all fundamental in your site's operations. What happens if you don't pay for them? 

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