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Anybody can utilize their unused domain(s) to create some nice profit-generating opportunities with the help of a free blogging platform called WordPress. WordPress essentially allows you to quickly develop a fully-functioning blog-style website within a couple minutes, and create/manage content using a simplistic interface. Regardless of your previous experience using this particular platform, you can learn to navigate it and be up-and-running in no time at all!
Initially, your main focus with your WordPress blog should be to provide informative or useful content which readers can benefit from. In other words, you are using your domain as a direct source of information which others can access, and that you can profit from in the future. So remember that first and foremost, content is king. Creating highly-useful and reader-friendly content is the first step into creating your niche profit machine.

After establishing a good amount of useful content on your WordPress site on a regular basis, search engines will start to take notice of the great information you’re providing. This will allow you to get “indexed” and eventually “ranked” within their search systems. This is the main way that you’ll be receiving visitor traffic to your website in the future to generate profit from.

Once the ball is rolling and traffic is coming through to the website, it’s time to start monetizing your content. One of the easiest ways to do this is through Google’s AdSense contextual advertising solution. Using AdSense, you’ll be able to place advertisements on your website and around your content. Anytime a visitor clicks on one of these links, you will make some money!
While it may take you a while to start generating revenue which you consider significant, it IS possible. Every little bit adds up. Besides, it is far better to create some revenue (even a tiny bit) using your unused domain(s), than none at all. So take advantage of this opportunity, instead of letting your domain names rot in their accounts!

To help you get started in profiting from your unused domains, here are a few key points you’ll need to understand to begin:

If you already have a domain name registered with us we’ve made it easier than ever to get started. You can now upgrade your registered domain to a full hosting package in just a few easy clicks.

After you log in to your Control Panel, select which domain you would like to upgrade from the list and click the upgrade button.

On this pop-up screen you can select your hosting package. Select from Professional or Small Business and then hit next. You’ll see one final screen confirming your purchase and then the transaction will be completed. Congratulations! You have just upgraded your domain to have web hosting. The next step is getting WordPress up and running and you are on your way to monetizing your domain!

Again, Once you are in the customer care center just select the domain you wish to get WordPress running on and then click on the “One Click Installer” link.

Here you will see the screen that gives you a couple simple options for your WordPress installation. Unless you know why you would want to run it in a sub directory feel free to ignore this. Please double check that you are installing it on the right domain name, so be sure you have selected the right one from the list. After you click ‘install’ you are almost done. Just allow a minute for the WordPress installer to run and then visit your domain to complete the installation by filling out the title and continue to receive your login. If you check out the website, you should see something like this:

This is the default theme that your new WordPress site will use. It is fairly plain but very functional and you can customize it pretty easily with some pictures and of course – your amazing articles. If you would like to explore some more possibilities for the look and functionality of your WordPress site this is a great place to start: http://wordpress.org/extend/. You’ll find thousands of themes and plugins to customize your site and to help you start making money with your domain.

Questions or comments for the author? Please use the feedback form below!

A subdomain is for example “blog” in the URL blog.example.org

I personally use subdomains mainly to do the webdevelopment for a new website, for example I would develop the new website on www2.example.org (note the “2″) – It would allow development on the same server as where I will deploy the new website and allows other people to check on the progress. Consider adding a .htaccess that restricts access to it, so it’s not available to search engines and other people that don’t have the password.

Other use would be for example be a blog, that you did not want to host on the same domain because you already have a website on it. I would consider running it on the regular www or in a subdirectory if possible, since it would add (search engine) “value/rank” to the domain. In essence a subdomain is a separate entity.

To add a subdomain:

1. Login to the customer panel.

2. Select a domain from your list

3. Select subdomains from the main menu:

4. Enter the name of the subdomain in the textbox and click “Install”

5. Please allow a minute or less for the installation to finish… And then you’ll see it in the list at the bottom with status “Finished”

6. You are done!

If you want, you can go to the WordPress One-Click-Installer in the main menu to install a WordPress blog on the subdomain you have just created, simply select the subdomain from the dropdown list (as seen below).

As many of you know, you could always ask our support to create a subdomain for you, but now you can do it within a minute. It was the most requested feature, so we hope you like it!

If you want to request another feature, please log in to the customer panel and click the red feedback tab on the side. As always, we highly appreciate your feedback!!

FTP password
You can reset your FTP password via the Customer Care Center. Login, then click on the domain, then choose FTP in the main menu.

MySQL password
We will reset the MySQL wachtwoord on request (send us an e-mail on support@hensel.nl). Please be aware that after changing a database password, all sites using that login, will not work anymore! If you know that it is in use, it’s better to check any config files via FTP. Common names for it are config.php or /config/config.php , settings.php etc. For WordPress wp_config.php is in use.

Username lost
If you lost the username for your Customer Care Center you can request it via the link at the bottom of the login page on http://www.managedomain.nl/

We will still support the standard unsecure FTP connections. To use FTPES/Explicit TLS you will probably have to make some changes to the profile settings of your website in your FTP client. Please look below for a video manual on how to do this in a popular FTP client “FileZilla”:

and another popular FTP client “Transmit” (Mac OS X):

Any feedback is welcome!

Step 1) Log in to the Customer Care Center and choose the domain your want to install WordPress on (note: this has to be a hosting package, otherwise you have to upgrade first).

Step 2) Click on “One Click Installer”.

Step 3) In this screen you can simply press “Install” to put WordPress on your website (e.g. www.examplehh.com). You can also type in the name of a sub-folder if you don’t want WordPress to be the main websote (for example if  you want to use a subsection with weblog articles you could install it on www.example.com/weblog/).

Step 4) Wait for the installation to complete (this can take up to 5 minutes) and visit your website to finish installing WordPress.

Video manual One Click Installer

PS: all the clients that are subscribed to the WordPress update service have been upgraded to WP 3.0 recently. If you are not using our service, please upgrade your WordPress installation now, to make sure your version is secure from vulnerabilities and get the new features. If you don’t have time to upgrade, subscribe to our service and we’ll do it for you.

Ben Ramsey, Cal Evans and Jason Mauer will each be doing a short presentation.

We are proud to sponsor the pizza and beer. And Coworking Fullerton will be hosting the event.

Some cool books will be raffled: Essential PHP Security (O’Reilly) – Securing PHP Web Applications (Addison Wesley) – Professional PHP 5 (Wrox) – Dojo (Addison Wesley)

I have personally met Cal Evans 2 years ago at a PHP conference in Amsterdam (RAI) where he was one of the speakers. He’ll probably not remember me but he’s an awesome speaker. I haven’t seen the others speak, but from what I heard and read, they’re good! This will be one awesome night of PHP, just one week from now!

The Speakers

BEN RAMSEY

Ben Ramsey is a Software Architect at Schematic, where he is a leader in the Open Source Platforms Group, designing and developing software and setting and enforcing best practices. Ben is a leader in the PHP community–the founder of the Atlanta PHP user group, the founder of the PHP Groups user group network, a founding member of PHPCommunity.org, and a speaker at industry conferences worldwide. He has written forphp|architect, International PHP Magazine, and Zend Developer Zone and has contributed to several books, including php|architect’s Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide (php|architect) and PHP 5 Unleashed (Sams).

Blog: http://benramsey.com/

CAL EVANS

For the past 8 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux OSX, and when necessary, Windows. He has built a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications. When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of “management by wandering around.”

Cal is currently based in Utrecht, Netherlands. He is a professional member of the PHP community and attends more conferences in a year than most people get to go to in a lifetime. He fills his spare time as the Director of the PCE for Ibuildings. Cal is responsible for coordinating the awesome Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam. In Cal’s past life, he was the Editor in Chief of Zend’s DevZone, host of the podcast PHP Abstract and responsible for coordinating ZendCon. Cal is the author of php|architect’s Guide to Programming with Zend Framework.

Blog: http://blog.calevans.com/

JASON MAUER

Jason Mauer is a Senior Developer Evangelist with Microsoft based in Portland, Oregon. He has over fifteen years of application development experience on a variety of platforms. His job is to make developers happy, which he strives to accomplish by providing training, participating in community events, and talking with customers about emerging technologies. Jason can be found online at jasonmauer.com and as @jasonmauer on Twitter.

Blog: http://jasonmauer.com/

A BIG THANKS, to William Estrada, for organising the speakers and the OC-PHP meetup in general.

RSVP for this awesome PHP event

For SIDN, 2009 will be dominated by the development of an EPP interface for the DRS. With this major project now in full swing, we want to keep you updated on its progress. We will be making use of various channels to do so, including this ‘DRS-EPP Weblog’.

The weblog is a public resource. You can access it via http://weblog-en.sidn.nl/.

The weblog features:

1 EPP-related decisions and choices made by SIDN
2 Reports on Taskforce meetings and decisions
3 News about the progress of the DRS-EPP project
4 Links to relevant documentation and tools to help you make a smooth migration to EPP

Naturally, you can respond to the information we publish if you wish.

This week, we shall start publishing details of the discussions held at the first meeting of the EPP Taskforce. Earlier decisions on the relevant issues are also being made available and we will be providing more detail regarding the processes within the DRS-EPP.

To make sure you don’t miss any news, you can subscribe to the RSS feed or to the e-mail newsletter. You will then be informed automatically whenever there is an update.

How does it work?
Gumblar is an example of this malware. You get this malware by visiting a website that is already infected. This website will use a leak in Adobe Reader or Adobe Flash to infect your PC.

After your pc is infected, this software looks (among other things) for passwords that you stored in FTP programs.

These stolen FTP passwords are then used to secretly alter files hosted on your website. For example, it will alter HTML or PHP files to add javascript code or a iframe that in turn infects your website’s visitors.

What can you do to prevent this?

1. Keep all your software up-to-date. This can be a daunting task, but a good (and free) tool is available to help you; Secunia Software Inspector. Be sure to at least download the most recent versions of Adobe Reader en Flash, and update your browser.
2. Browse safe; don’t just click on any link (especially from spam mail). If you really want to make an effort you should consider using Firefox together with the NoScript plugin.
3. Even if you already use a virusscanner (highly recommended), it’s wise to scan your PC frequently using different malware detection software such as Malwarebytes.
4. Don’t store your FTP password in your FTP program, and use a third-party application to keep your passwords safe.
5. Be careful with outsourcing or giving other people your website passwords. Even if you trust the person or company that you give them to, they can also be infected (and developing countries tend to have higher infection rates).

What to do when I’m infected
The first thing to do is to change all passwords you stored on your PC (do this from a clean PC of course). Next, determine what kind of virus you have. Use for example the Malwarebytes scanner we mentioned earlier, or install a recent anti-virus program and follow the directions given. Unfortunately, the only way to make really sure that you PC is secure again, is to reinstall it from scratch. Our best advice is to back up all your files, and reinstall or restore your installation. Yes; we realize this is a lot of work but you make sure that no backdoors or rootkits remain behind that could make your PC vulnerable to the same attack all over again, or worse!

What we do to protect you
We are now scanning all files uploaded via FTP for malware. In case we detect any suspicous files, these are cleaned or removed, your FTP password will be reset, and you will be notified. Although this doesn’t guarantee that your website is 100% safe, this will catch most of the common malware before it can do more harm.

Log in to the Customer Care Center on http://www.managedomain.nl. Next, choose the domain that you want to use the database for and select “Database management”->”View database(s)”

A new window will open, asking for a username and password. Enter the login details for your MySQL database (sent to you by email when your domain was first created with us).

Once you’re logged in, you can view and manage your databases. Choose one of the available databases on the left side of your screen, for example the first one.

After selecting one of the databases, on the right side click on “Import”. You can now browse for the database backup file on your computer.

After doing this, scroll down and select “start”. After some time (depending on the size of your database), all imported tables will appear on the left side. If you encounter any error messages, perhaps your database is too big to import via your browser, or your user might not have enough privileges. In that case, contact us and we’ll be happy to help!