Juried Show
Be Original Art Gallery was at the Miami Circle through out
the month of October
Bill Fortney Inspired us in January
 
Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar
Daemon Baizan, Co-President of Atlanta/Southeast Chapter, talks with one of the attendees at the seminar.
Check out the slide show from the conference.
This does take a while to download, but worth the wait.
John Slemp coordinated a slide show for the Atlanta/Southeast Chapter's booth at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. There were 119 images in the show from 39 photographers. The images showed the variety of our membership and drew people over who asked questions of the many volunteers we had at the booth.
Nikon and Canon were doing free clean and checks for anyone attending. So the traffic in the room with the booth was very heavy.
Protect Your Domain From Hijacking (Posted 11-17-04)
New ICANN Policy Makes this More Important than Ever - see below
ASMP recommends that all members who have a web site should take immediate action to protect their domains from hijackings. It is simple to do, but it has suddenly become quite important.
1. See how your domain is listed in the master registry: Do a WHOIS inquiry, which is available through most registrars, as well as through web sites such as InterNIC http://www.internic.net/whois.html.
In the query result, pay attention to the
* Expiration Date (expired domains are easy targets)
* Sponsoring Registrar
* Status (you want to see "lock" or "transfer prohibited")
* all of the Registrant info (is it up to date?)
* all of the Admin info (be sure it's right)
Double-check the Registrant Email and the Admin Email info, because if someone is trying to steal your domain, that's where the change notice will be sent.
2. If the Status is "active," ask your hosting service or your Sponsoring Registrar to lock the domain.
3. Make sure that email from your Sponsoring Registrar can get through your spam filter. Pay attention to all emails that talk about transfer of your domain. If you get one unexpectedly, immediately contact your hosting service to see what action you should take.
4. If you haven't already done so, renew your domain registration for several years. It's cheap insurance for a major asset (and you'll have to do it eventually anyway).
In addition, if you are the owner or the maintainer of an ASMP Chapter domain, please contact Mike Zornek [mailto:zornek@asmp.org] / 215.451.2767 x1202 as soon as possible.
THE WHAT AND WHY
There have always been two ways an outsider could gain control of your domain name. First, if you failed to pay your renewal fees, the registration would expire and, after a short interval, another person could register as if you had never existed. Second, a hijacker could subvert the existing registration. But until this year, that was hard to do. Before anyone could make a change to the master name registry, your registrar had to email you a request for approval. Unless you replied with an affirmative message, nothing would be changed.
However, last July, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) issued a new policy, which took effect in mid-October and is now being adopted by most web hosting companies. Under the new policy, if you ignore a change request, it will automatically be approved.
Change requests have to come through authorized Internet registrars, who stand to lose their accreditation if they are careless. But mistakes can happen, and criminals can use forged credentials to convince a registrar that the change is legitimate. It's up to you to defend yourself.
but here's the part to notice:
Failure by the Registrar of Record to respond within
five (5) calendar days to a notification from the
Registry regarding a transfer request will result
in a default "approval" of the transfer.
There are reasons why ICANN made this change, of course, and some advisors are saying there's really not much to worry about. Maybe not. But this is a case where an ounce of prevention will be worthwhile.
Peter Dyson
Director of Communication
American Society of Media Photographers
150 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-1912
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