February, 2010

Three letters domains cif.com is being hold on for pending detelted. It has been dropped twice in the last five years.
I have checked both whoise information and archive bookmarks. The following are the results.

ICANN Registrar:ANSWERABLE.COM (I) PVT. LTD.
Created:1997-12-12
Expires:2009-12-11
Updated:2010-02-20
Registrar Status:pending
Delete Name Server:DNS.PARKPAGE.FOUNDATIONAPI.COM (has 119,719 domains) DNS2.PARKPAGE.FOUNDATIONAPI.COM (has 119,719 domains)
Whois Server:whois.answerable.com
General TLDs:
cIf.com (on-hold (pending delete))
cIf.net (registered and active website)
cIf.org (registered and active website)
cIf.biz (registered and active website)
cIf.info (registered and no website)
cIf.us (registered and active website)

Of course, cif is a hot words as it’s short enough. And the most popular TLDs are registered and have active website already.
And cif.com has website since 1998 based upon the archive.com:) Then, let’s see what the word CIF short for at wikipedia.org.
BTW, there was an typo domain noika.com is being hold as well as.
I will updated the post once I got the acquisition prices for both domains.
[updated - 03/05/2009] CIF.COM – $17,001 and noika.com – $2,989

As one of the security tips – we should remove the generator information from the header if we are using wordpress for the blog.
It’s simple to do, just remove the following line from the header.php in your theme.

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->

If you are seeking tips for wordpress security. Then the following are bonus if your blog is being run under APACHE.
1: Keep your wp-admin folder safely: just create an .htaccess file.

AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName “Access Control”
AuthType Basic
order deny,allow
deny from all
# whitelist home IP address
allow from 66.234.165.99
allow from 67.148.115.25
allow from 191.58.54.6*

2: Don’t expose your plugin:) Just add the blank file into the root of your wordpress plugin file.

As many wordpress users known, the comment off tag always be showed once you close the comment function. Many users would like to turn off the comment of the wordpress after an given days of the post release. It can be archived via the section DISCUSSION of the wordpress admin. So how can we remove the boring words Comment Off. There are three ways as following.

Modified the function comments_popup_link in the template file of the comment

Find the file named comment-template.php located at wp-icludes. There has the words “Comment Off’ as the value of the variable $none (in the comments_popup_link). – tip credits

The disadvantage of the way: we need to modify the code once we decide to update the wordpress to newer. It’s one of methods to keep safely. Please always update your blog to the newest wordpress version. On the other hands, it will remove the empty HTML tag in your page. It doesn’t help the in-page SEO.

In fact, we change the default value of the last parameters of the function comments_popup_link. So, we can just set its value to instead of the modification of the default value.

Change your theme files – three places

Open index.php and remove this:<span class="add_comment">

Open single.php and remove this:<?php comments_template(); ?>

Open archive.php and remove this:<?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments');?>

The second tip is taken from the blog wphackr.com. Compared with the first one, you shouldn't modify the code any more once you have remove those lines. However the wordpress lost the comments tag on all pages for ever:)