Our DNS Servers are on the Move! To increase our global coverage and offer enhanced DNS resolution for domains, we have relocated 2 of our 4 servers to Europe.   more »

The start of a new year can bring new demands on your Internet needs. LaneChange.Net helps you meet these challenges with services such as our new Virtual & Dedicated Servers and upgraded Web Hosting and Email Hosting packages. We call it Hosting 2.0, you'll call it amazing!   more »

Clients using POP or IMap access to mail stores on virgin.lanechange.net take note: We have made a change to the way our system accepts your login information from your mail program, like Outlook.   more »

Server Maintenance Tonight Due to continued hardware maintenance, customers using our web hosting server Virgin, will experience a short outage tonight.   more »

In this issue: - How to protect your brand using domain names - LaneChange.Net launches presence in Europe   more »

Early this afternoon (eastern time) our Toronto based supplier of network services reported sporadic network connectivity issues. Impact of this outage is delayed email and sporadic network connectivity to services hosted within this data center.   more »

Do you do business in Europe? Do you have a registered business or are a resident within the European Community? Then you need a .EU domain name from LaneChange.Net!   more »

Our data center provider will be upgrading the power supply system in our Vancouver data center. We anticipate servers to be down for a maximum of 2 hours as this work completes. The outage will begin Saturday, February 4 starting at 0300 EST (0800 GMT) until 0500 EST (1000 GMT).   more »

Welcome to 2006! We want to start the year off right, so we're having a Sale! Get our lowest price ever on Domain Name registrations from now until the end of January. If you are an Email Defense customer, we have a new filter you can optionally add to your service.    more »

Do you do business in Europe? Are you a European Public Body or hold a European country trademark? Then you need a .EU domain name from LaneChange.Net!   more »

LaneChange.net will be upgrading its Web & FTP hosting platform on Thursday, November 24 starting at 10 PM EST (0300 GMT) until approximately 1 AM EST (0600 GMT)   more »

A new Sober worm going around disguised as an email from the FBI that contains a dangerous file attachment.   more »

LaneSnap.com provides self-serve Internet services at entry-level pricing. Offerings include full-featured domain name registrations, domain name backordering, web and email hosting, as well as virtual and dedicated servers.   more »

In this issue...

1. PayPal as a Payment Option?
2. Your Ad Here!

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In this issue...
1. Keep your site up during the storm
2. Used domain names, come and get'em

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In this issue...

1. Email Marketing Made Easy
2. Domain Name's & Google
3. Domain Name Snagging

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LaneChange.net Customer News - June 28, 2005

In this issue...

1. New, Bigger Email Boxes - Same Great Price!
2. Whois Privacy Service Now Available
3. Happy Canada Day! - .CA Domain Name Price Drops July 1
4. How to Get Cheaper DNS Hosting


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New, Bigger Email Boxes - Same Great Price!

Effective June 28, our stand alone Email Hosting Service customers will enjoy a free upgrade to their service: Bigger Email Boxes! These size increases come at no additional cost. If you are subscribed to one of the plans in the table below, your mailbox size will automatically increase to the new size indicated at no additional charge.

Here is a summary of the size increase:

Old Size: New Size:
 10MB       250MB
 25MB      1000MB
 50MB      2000MB
100MB      5000MB

If you are not subscribed to our Email Hosting Service and would like to find out how you can get a huge mailbox attached to your own domain name, with virus scanning and webmail access, visit:

http://www.lanechange.net/html/email_hosting.shtml


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Whois Privacy Service Now Available

Every time ...   more »

New Whois Privacy Service protects contact information and provides alerts of legitimate contact requests

Ottawa, Ontario (PRWEB) June 2, 2005 -- LaneChange.Net, a complete Internet services solutions provider, announces a new privacy service that protects the identity of domain name owners by replacing publicly accessible registrant data with generic contact information thereby making it more difficult for Spammers, telemarketers and other undesirable third parties to capture private domain owner information.

The Whois Privacy Service replaces existing owner contact information with generic information that directs inquiries to a special web site which then captures legitimate contact requests and forwards them to the real domain owner. Owners retain full control over their domains at all times, avoid exposure to excessive Spam, telephone or letter mail marketing and are alerted to contact requests.

"When someone registers a domain name, sensitive information such as the owner's name, address, phone number and email address are placed in a publicly accessible database known as the Whois Database," said Robert Schwartz, President of LaneChange.net. "This information is often accessed by Spammers, telemarketers ...   more »

LaneChange.net Customer News - May 4, 2005

In this issue...

1. New Sober Worm Making the Rounds
2. How To Run Your Own Mail Server: Cost Effective Filtering
3. Domain Name Whois Privacy Coming Soon
4. Special of the Month - 10% to 15% Off Bulk Domain Name Renewals
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UPDATE: At 13:25 EDT (16:25 UTC) all services have returned to normal. ========== At 11:51 am EDT (14:51 UTC) network connectivity issues have been reported at our Vancouver data center. Our provider has been contacted and are currently working on the issue.   more »

Email Service Maintenance Window - Feb. 13, 2005 04:00UTC (11pm EST - Feb. 12)

A 90 minute maintenance window has been scheduled for 13 February, 2005 at 04:00 UTC that will effect clients of our stand alone email hosting service. This maintenance window does not affect the Email Defense Service or Web Hosting clients.

Date: 13 February 2005
UTC Time: 04:00UTC - 05:30UTC
Duration: 90 minutes

During this maintenance window, customer impact will be:

- End users will be unable to connect to WebMail, POP, IMAP or SMTP services.
- Inbound and outbound mail will be temporarily delayed. No mail will be lost.
- Provisioning will continue to function normally, although delays may occur in the availability of new mailboxes and any upgrades or downgrades.
- Email administrator interface will be offline.

We regret in advance any inconvenience this may cause.

Thanks,

-Rob

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Webmaster clients might be interested in a little side project our founder, Robert Schwartz has started up: MySEOLab.com is a website dedicated to Search Engine Optimization, a topic dear to most web site developers.

The site offers tips and ideas to help you design a site that is friendly to the search engines, helping you get indexed with the goal of having a well ranked web site. Real world example sites are used, with webmasters reporting on what worked for them and what failed.

Volunteers Needed!

If you have a website you are working to optimize and would like to contribute to this project, visit the site and submit your name!



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When disaster strikes, offsite hosting offers low cost business continuity option

Ottawa, Ontario (PRWEB) September 24, 2004 -- Small and medium sized businesses do not always have the budget or personnel to implement costly disaster recovery plans, but short term, on-demand offsite hosting combined with economical backup services provides a viable option. "This was not your typical Friday before a long Labor Day weekend!" said Robert Schwartz, president of LaneChange.net. "Hurricane Frances was spinning through the Bahamas and our phones were ringing off the hook with requests from some quick thinking Floridians looking for offsite hosting and backup email services to support their operations through the weekend."

"So many variables come into play when a large natural disaster like a hurricane hits. Un-interruptable power supplies and generators can provide endless amounts of power, but high winds, lightning and even flooding can knock out telecom lines that connect your servers to the Internet." Schwartz said. "Most employees were sent home to wait out the storm. Streets blocked with debris and travel restrictions imposed by local officials ...   more »

We have implemented some changes to our reporting tool for our Virus Filtering Gateway Service. As of today, you will notice extremely fast reporting results when accessing the traffic reports for your domain.

These speed increases are mostly due in part to database optimizations that also required us to delete some old historic data. Some low volume domains may notice some detailed  historic information missing in the reports. Any new data from today onward however will be displayed as expected.




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Due to popular demand, we are now happy to accept the American Express card! Amex is one of the more popular corporate use cards and has been requested by many of our corporate clients. We are now able to accept 'The Card' on any of our payment screens.

If you are a client who is on a recurring billing program and would like to switch your automatic payments to the American Express card, please contact us.

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Bloggin is finally here! Although our marketing pages and on-line order process is not yet complete, our back end servers are redy to go! Demand is so high, we decided to announce the general availability of LaneChange.net's latest and greatest offing, weBlogs!

Now you can run your own website, publish and manage content, complete with pictures, folders category's and more with virtually NO programming skills required!

You are reading our weBlog right now! You too can operate a site just like this one, all controlled by you, through a web browser.

Our weblog's come in 2 sizes:

Basic Blog: 1GB storage with 1GB monthly bandwidth
Price: $59 USD per year

Plus Blog: 2GB storage with 2GB monthly bandwidth
Price: $99USD per year

Larger size custom blogs packages also available.

If your ready to try Blogging, contact us now and we'll tell you how to get started, now!


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LaneChange.net Launches Service to Protect Businesses from Spam and Viruses

Cost effective solution offers real-time server threat protection against Spam, worms and computer viruses without up-front hardware costs.
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The registry operator for .com, .net, cc and .tv has announced an extended maintenance window for 15 May 2004.

This maintenance window will affect:

.com, .net, .name, .cc and .tv domain transactions, including new registrations, renewals and transfers.

Date: 15 May 2004
Time: 1300 UTC - 0100 UTC
Duration: 12 hours

The registry maintenance windows will affect all registrars equally. We apologize for any inconvenience these outages may cause you.

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What the heck is a blog!?

Blog's are great for rapidly publishing news, information, actually any content that you want others to read.

No programming skills are required to use the LaneChange.net web based blogging tool, ease of use, rapid content deployment and a user friendly, feature rich interface allows you to get your message and ideas onto the net fast.   more »

LaneChange.net Web Hosting Clients Now Virus Protected

Clients subscribed to our Web Hosting service are now protected behind our Virus ...   more »

Vancouver Data Center Maintenance Window - April 14

Our Vancouver Date Center provider will be performing network maintenance overnight April 13-14. This maintenance will effect 2 of our servers that host DNS, Virus Scanning Gateway (including email to our Web Hosted clients) and Backup Email Server Services. The outage will occur overnight (in North America) to minimize impact.

Date: April 14, 2004
Time: 0600 - 1000 UTC (2am-6am EDT)
Duration: 4 hours   more »