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Amazing Photos of Saturns Moon, Enceladus by Cassini

Cassini EnceladusThe Cassini spacecraft was sent to dive through an ice geyser on Saturn’s moon Enceladus last night. Pictures were radioed back to Earth late last night and NASA personnel were able to process and upload the raw images to their website early this morning.

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Domain Registry of America (droa.com)

Whatever you do, I would recommend staying away from this company.

If you have them host your DNS, you can not make simple changes such as modifying the TTL of your domain.

I just had a conversation with a tech, “Alex”.  He was adamant that TTL settings are set across the board to 1 day (86400), and that it is their policy that this can not be changed.  They run Linux Bind DNS systems, which means this is about as simple of a DNS change as can be made.

It seems they just resell godaddy domains, so if nothing else just get your domains through godaddy and use thier DNS management interface.

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