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We know from experience that some customers forget to renew their Mr Site services no matter how many reminders we send. Yet that can mean your website going offline. Worse, if your domain name expires without you realising, it could be snapped up by domain name speculators planning to make a quick profit by selling it back to you. It happens to all sorts - even big name companies like Emirates and Hamleys have slipped up.

Avoid the expiry trap:

We offer an auto-renewal service to make sure you don't fall into this trap. When auto-renewal is switched on, we take payment when it's due to keep your Mr Site services running as normal.

To ensure your Mr Site services do get renewed automatically, please ensure that you don't turn off the auto recurring payment option in your account. To control the recurring option, login to your Mr Site account and from the main options on the right hand side click on 'My Account', then 'Manage my package'.

Personal data collected by Google's UK Street View cars has been deleted.

The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which has been criticised for not taking a more hardline stance against Google, confirmed the deletion.

The first batch of wi-fi data, which included snippets of e-mails, URLs and passwords, was deleted in November.

But legal wrangles in other countries meant that the remaining data, all of which the firm said was collected in error, took more time to erase.

"We can confirm that the UK data has now been deleted, and that this has been independently certified," said Google.

The deletion was carried out by US forensics firm Stroz Friedberg.

The ICO welcomed the announcement and said that it had been sent a copy of the report confirming the deletion.

"This is inline with the requirements of the undertaking issued by the ICO and signed by Google last month," said a spokesperson.

The ICO has come under fire for not taking action against the firm, which first admitted to collecting information from unsecured wireless networks in more than 30 countries in May 2010.

For more on this please click on here which you will be directed to the BBC news website.

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You may have heard of the term ‘domain alias’ but never really known what it means. A domain alias (or tandem, as it’s sometimes also called) is when more than one domain name leads to the same website.

For example, if the domain ‘www.test1.com’ is your chosen Takeaway Website name and you then add the domain alias of ‘www.test2.com’ to your account as well, both addresses would take your visitor to ‘www.test1.com’.

With Mr Site you can add up to six additional domain aliases – these can be names you have purchased from Mr Site or if you have bought domains with other providers, you can either move the domain for Mr Site to host or keep the name with its current registrar and ask them to ‘point’ it at your Takeaway Website.

If you’d like to buy your new domain from Mr Site, click on the ‘Buy’ button from the Main Options pages. Then from the drop down list next to ‘What purchase would you like?’ select ‘Purchase a new domain’. Now, type in your new domain into the box when prompted and if it’s available to purchase, Mr Site will ask you what you’d like to do with it – choose ‘Work in tandem’ and this will place the domain name as an alias alongside your Takeaway Website domain name.

If you have purchased the domain name from another registrar, you will need to contact the Mr Site support team so they can place the domain name as an alias on your account – you can talk to them on Live Chat (just click on the Live Chat icon in the top right hand corner of the Main Options page) or email support@mrsite.co.uk 

Having watched a few very unsuccessful pitches on The Apprentice recently, I thought this might be a good topic of conversation for today! If you want a sales pitch that wows...you must be prepared to work on it extensivley before your present it to prospective clients. You need to ensure that you know your product inside out and (very importantly) know your numbers. Tell them what sets you over and above your competition by picking 3 or 4 things that gives your business the edge, andbase your sales story around these points.

The best way to pitch your clients is to understand each client and what they need - this way you will be able to position your productservice much better. For more useful advice click here

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