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Volume 5
What's New 
Warning! Sneaky Domain Renewal Notices
News Item: Several Registrar's (Companies that offer and register domain names, ie., .com, .net, etc.) have been recognized as using deceptive practices to lure domain name owners in to transferring their domain name to another registrar.
Unsuspecting users who transferred their domains often paid a much higher price, lost their virtual domains, erased their e-mail forwarding rules and POP3 accounts, and consequently had to take their web sites offline.
Some Registrar's are mining WHOIS (by performing a whois search on the internet it is possible to find out who the owner of any domain is) data and sending deceptive and predatory expiration notices to owners of domains that are not registered with them.
Some of these notices are sent via e-mail others are sent using traditional or snail mail.
If you registered your domain through PPP Design we will contact you before the domain will expire. If your domain name was purchased through another company they should contact you regarding renewal.
Some of these notices even come as a bill suggesting that if they aren't paid they will be turned over for collections.
If you receive a domain renewal notice and have questions, please contact us and we will be glad to look it over.
$ Marketing Your Site $
One of the many advantages of having your own web site is the ability to place things on the internet. O.K., for all of you who just went, "duh, I already knew that", bear with me to find out more.
If you have a web site you can place e-mail signatures on line that can be used in your e-mail to promote your site. If you use html based e-mail, these signatures can be embedded in every e-mail you send. The signature can be a company logo, your name, a graphic, etc. Sounds can be attached, such as an advertisement or some other cute noise that draws attention to your site or your mail. A link to your website can be embedded in the signature, so, when clicked, your e-mail recipient will be directed to your site.
You can even create an html page and e-mail it to your customers (that is how this newsletter is done) and all of the functionality of the web page will be included in your e-mail. Of course the e-mail recipient must be online to see all of the interactivity, but most people connect to the internet to check their e-mail anyway.
To check out a very simple example of an e-mail signature hover over the green rectangle that says PPP Design on the left margin of the newsletter. Careful, if you click the signature you will be whisked away to www.pppdesign.net in a new window.
You can create your own signature or PPP Design can create a custom signature for you, and upload it to your site. E-mail signatures can be a fun, effective, and inexpensive way to promote your business and your site.
