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The Point Black Friday 50% Sale

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Starting right now, anyone who upgrades to a Point premium subscription will automatically receive a 50% discount on their first year’s subscription – you’ll pay £24 rather than the normal £48!

The Point premium subscription allows you to create upto 75 domains (rather than the usual 10), no advertising and telephone support should you have any issues. Plus, you’ll also have the warm fuzzy feeling that you’re supporting us!

In order to take advantage of this great offer, just click the “Upgrade Now” button within your point account and the system will automatically apply the discount when you pay.

This offer is only valid until 09:30am on Sunday 27th November – act fast!

Point goes premium!

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Yesterday we launched the first phase of some big updates for the Point system. Most importantly, we have introduced our new paid plan, Point Premium. The biggest change is that we are now limiting the number of free domains to 10 per user and if you require more domains you will need to upgrade to our premium service which allows up to 75.

If you currently host more than 10, don’t worry we won’t be turning anything off – you are free to keep these for as long as you want but you won’t be able to add any additional domains unless you upgrade.

The premium subscription costs £48/year plus VAT if located within the EC or United Kingdom. You can pay using your credit/debit card or Paypal by logging into your Point account.

The key feature you will unlock when upgrading is the ability to add more than 10 domains although we also offer telephone & email support to all premium subscribers.

We have also just finished phasing out the VPS.NET sponsored DNS servers (dns1, dns2 & dns3) and these have been replaced by services from Linode for DNS2 (NJ, USA) and DNS3 (CA, USA) as well as XtraHost for DNS1 (London, UK). These new services should provide greater reliability for these nameservers.

SRV records now supported in Point

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We are happy to announce that Point, our DNS hosting platform now supports SRV records. We had a number of requests for this, particularly from users wishing to integrate with Google Talk. These records can now be added in the same way as other records.

The ‘data’ field is comprised of three parts separated by spaces: weight port target, for example 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com. for Google’s primary Jabber server.

We have also updated the wizard to enable Google Talk records to be automatically added in the same way as Google Mail MX records. The records will be magically added as follows: