Girish Gangadharan

How the hell did they get all this info? Half of it is outdated but still…domain privacy anyone?

Well… i guess the following lines as stated on the aboutus.org site should explain everything.

In addition to this site, if you would like to prevent your information from showing up anywhere, you may wish to contact your domain name registrar and purchase a privacy service which most of the majors domain name registrars have. That doesn’t deal with historical information which may already be out there, but at least it deals with it on a go forward basis.

For people that are not serious about spending those extra couple of bucks for private registration, here are a few tips that might help.

The information listed on your domain name has to be made publicly available per your Registrar�s agreement with ICANN, the international governing body of domain names. Providing false information will violate the registration agreement and could lead to the cancellation of your registration.

Most of the major registrars out there offer a solution to help protect your privacy. They offer something called private domain name registration service (usually for a relatively insignificant cost) which will list them as your proxy and thus it is their information (name, address and phone number) that is displayed in the public domains out there, for example, WHO-IS directory. Remember, you still are the real owner of your domain.

A small price to pay for peace of mind. Hope this helps someone.

Heyy…..that’s Sonu! Oh my God…look how little she was a few months back. She weighs 60 lbs now – 10 months old.

WOW!

I know if i really wanted to, i could have spared 15 minutes a day to blog about something interesting. But oh well…i’ll try to post more often. Does anybody care? NO! I don’t care either….whatever!

So anyways…this time i have something interesting (at least to me) to talk about. Firefox released it’s latest version 2.0 and my extension would not work with this. So i decided to upgrade it and then in the process of wondering if i could add any new features to it, came up with a couple of new ideas.

For those that are not sure what i’m talking about, Select Search is a Firefox extension that i wrote a while back that will enhance your right click. You can select any text on any page (frames not supported) and search for that text in Google, Yahoo, MSN, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, WebMD, CNET, IMDB and A WHOLE BUNCH of other sites. You can even search for directions (assuming the text you selected is a valid US address) in Google Maps and Yahoo Maps. Works with multiline addresses as well.

In the latest version (2.0), i have added the following features.

1. Open URL – Ever come across a URL on a page that is plain text (not actually displayed as a hyperlink) and thus you can’t click on it? Now you can highlight such text and use Select Search’s “Open URL” feature to open the URL in a new tab.

2. New search sites added:

• - Flickr.com [Images category]
• - YouTube and Google Videos [Videos category]
• - Google and Yahoo Groups [Groups category]
• - SimplyHired.com [Jobs category]

NOTE: I know there are waaaayyyyy too many options and search sites cramped in the menu and i have selected them all by default. But you can obviously go to Options for Select Search and disable any/all features you don’t need.

Ladies and Gentleman, I present Select Search 2.0.