.eu domains now available
The .eu top-level domain gives a new Internet space to European companies and citizens, providing a common Internet identity for the European Community.

The .eu is the first top-level domain directed exclusively to the European Community and can be registered by any individual, organisation or company resident in the EU.

You can register your .eu domains for just £10+VAT per domain year at www.simpledomainnames.co.uk

The .eu registry will begin accepting registrations for new domains on 7th April at 8am. We are currently accepting orders for new registrations and placing them in a queue on a first come, first served basis. This queue will be sent to the registry when it opens for general availability on 7th April.

Please note that there is no guarantee of a successful registration as the domain may have been registered successfully during sunrise, is currently in the process of being reviewed due to a sunrise application or has been previously registered during the landrush on 07 April.

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Why you should use :fail: (geeky info)
There are sound technical reasons that you should only use :fail: and not :blackhole: on our cPanel servers. We have conducted quite extensive testing to establish this configuration is best and outline the reasons here.

In general the two different settings both discard email not destined for a POP3 account, an alias or a catchall alias. However, using :fail: the email is never accepted into the server. During the initial SMTP negotiation when the senders SMTP server connects to your SMTP server, the sending SMTP server issues a RCPT command notifying your server which email address the email to follow is intended for. Your server then checks whether the recipient email actually exists on your server (a POP3 account, an alias or a catchall alias) and if it does not, it issues an SMTP DENY which terminates the attempt to deliver the email.

• This saves bandwidth as the email data is never received into your server
• This saves server resources as the email never has to be processed
• This complies with the SMTP RFC's because the sending SMTP server receives the DENY command
• Your server does not send a bounce message (just the DENY command)
• Your server does not send anything to the sender of the email (i.e. the address in the From: line)
• The sending SMTP server is responsible for notifying the original sender

So, if you're currently using :blackhole: or :discard: to get rid of unwanted mail, switch to :fail: instead.