2005 to 2006 round up.

This period has marked a new level of development within mad-den and reslted in new developments. Many of these new development have focused on the personal blog of the Adullam Limited MD Matt at his blog Lord Matt. The aim being to develop new technology for use with NucleusCMS.

It is likely that this news will move to that paltform at some stage.

However, in the mean time we are still experimenting with it for mad-den.net which is enjoying active development while the uk version of the site enjoys only decay due to loss of the central CMS due to an error that the code base developers (xoops) refuse to help fix.

So that is what has been going on arround here.

DNS servers--an Internet Achilles' heel | CNET News.com

DNS servers--an Internet Achilles' heel | CNET News.com: "There are about 9 million DNS servers on the Internet, Kaminsky said. Using a high-bandwidth connection provided by Prolexic Technologies, he examined 2.5 million. Of those, 230,000 were identified as potentially vulnerable, 60,000 are very likely to be open to this specific type of attack, and 13,000 have a cache that can definitely be poisoned. "

UK DOMAIN - Hosting issues.

Although the Mad-Den UK domain has suffered a hosting issue after the darn domain hijack by namesco it should now be soon live again.

News on the Mad-Den UK domain sabotage

As has been mentioned already the Mad-Den.co.uk domain was detagged by the Namesco in response to allegations of professional misconduct. We had written to them saying that if they could see their way to simply releasing our domains we could see our way to no longer wishing to complain. They have not acted (in our opinion) in good faith and we intend to complain.

We have been actively campaigning to have the domains which are ours by rights re-instated and I can announce that the due process has now been completed for now.

On Friday 8th April a letter containing photocopied proofs of identity and a signed declaration form were sent to Nominet the UK Registry. We expect that this will be received by close of business on the 11th April and processed soon after*. As payment has already been made I fully expect the new registrar to activate the DNS settings this week soon after the domains are manually re-tagged. With luck the full services of Mad-Den UK will be back on line by Friday 15th April.

*Mad-Den Traffic has announced a little differently to this

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Mad-Den UK, the PHP development site for the Mad-Den collective went down three days ago and has not been seen since.

The cause was the immoral actions of a company called Namesco who resell for MelbourneIT (who caused the panix domain name blunder). Namesco were able to place themselves in a possition to attack the Mad-Den collective after purchasing the registrar Simply.com that held the domain names.