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A: PKNIC, under a program called Directregister, has down-delegated the domain registration authority to "Trusted Agent", most of whom are Internet service providers. The name of these ISPs appears on the PKNIC Web site under this program. ISPs are are assigned individual access codes that they use while registering.If a registration request contains this access code, the request is immediately processed. However PIKNIC says that they reseve the right to cancel the domain if it conflicts with any of their rules and regulation. Also, using this program, your ISP cannot register a gov.pk domain. For more information on DirectRegister program, you can visit PIKNIC's Web site.

A: Unlike most of the modern mail servers (like Post.Office, Sendmail, Qmailetc.) netscape Mail servers strangly donot attempt to detect and deny what is reffered to as"third party relaying". Third party relaying refers to the phenomenon of a user of say' ISP A, sending mail to a user of ISP B through the mail server of ISP C. This is typically followed by spammers (senders of junk, unsolicited, often commercial, hate or abusive e-mail). Modern network design highly recommends that this should be deniedby the mail server. Post.office, Sendmail, Qmailetc all deny third party relaying by default. For Netscape Mail server, there is little or no official support on their Web site to help users flight spam and spammers on this front. However, a very good script has been floating on the Internet to secure your Netscape Mail Server to some extent. Be very careful in entering this Script as it makes exensive uses of the infamous regular expressions.

A: While Hotmail's Web site(www.hotmail.com) doesnot provide any facility to delete your account, if you donot log into the system for over 120 days to your Hotmail email account, the system is supposed to delete your account.

If you can live with the advertisement features that are present in most of the free Web hosting services on the Internet (or you canafford to pay them for the service and get the advertisement removed from your web site),it is adviseable to choose a well-known web hosting service such as Geocities.your localISP cannot (almost always) match the bandwidth, expertise and resources that these sites boast. If you require seriousweb hosting services, you you are best advised to contact speacialized companies on the Internet for whom it is a core business. Exodus.com,Verio.com,and PSL.net are amongst the top names.  Also you can easily find local web hosting companies that retail the services of these big companies in Pakistan(and you get the ease of paying in rupees). The only reason you would  want your web site to be hosted on a local ISP is if you want a token Internet presence for your business in the country.