If ex-Vietnam vet and GoDaddy CEO Bob Parson’s egomaniacal slaying of an elephant in Zimbabwe isn’t a classic example of shooting oneself in the kneecap I don’t know what is.

Worldwide community backlash is mounting upon him and GoDaddy over a self-made and blogged video of Parson’s attempting to express concern at a local farmer’s loss of crop but more transparently, his eagerness to pull the trigger on some ‘big game’.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/godaddy-ceo-shoots-elephant-injures-brand-20110401-1co0o.html

Clients are pulling their accounts left, right and centre with good cause. Most notably PETA (https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3643) an organization for the ethical treatment of animals.

Quite simply people are voting with their feet and pulling accounts even at their own expense to make a statement. We are not going to finance your lifestyle of chest beating and butchery.

Here’s an amazing, harmonious and clever alternative we discovered taking place in Sri Lanka that could be adopted in Zimbabwe’s clash between elephant and human needs. In Sri Lanka after bitter land battles between farmer and elephant, they are now allowing elephants to come and go as they please and collecting and processing the elephant’s dung. From this highly fibrous dung comes a beautiful handmade and dyed (odour-free!) paper product. A product that earns them a profitable, honest, ethical living!  http://eco-ideas.net/story/id/16/

Now THAT’S outside the box thinking that benefits everyone.

Adding 3rd Name Server to your domain name

Addition of Global DNS server:

VH engineers have created a global redundant DNS (Domain Name Service) server located in the US as a failover server outside of our own infrastructure to keep DNS live when and if unplanned service outages occur.

Benefits of external DNS server

• Failover & Redundancy to our current DNS servers
• Keep Mail, Domain Names, Server IP addresses etc alive on the internet for extended periods of time while server interruptions are being resolved
• Help with mail queuing and resolution

Adding ns3.velocityhost.com.au to a domain registered elsewhere

NEW DNS Server: ns3.velocityhost.com.au

To use the new DNS Server with a domain registered with another service provider, log into the registrar of your domain/s and navigate to DNS Delegation section and add an additional name server, your entries should look like this:

ns1.velocityhost.com.au
ns2.velocityhost.com.au
ns3.velocityhost.com.au (NEW! Name Server Entry)

Adding ns3.velocityhost.com.au to domains registered with VH

NEW DNS Server: ns3.velocityhost.com.au

Step 1.

Where domains are registered with Velocity Host please start by logging into your CP - Control Panel https://svr11.velocityhost.com.au/cp enter your username (email address) & password to login.

Step 2.

Navagete to the system tab

Step 3.

Select “All My Domains” icon

Step 4.

Select the appropriate domain

Step 5.

Select the “Name Servers” tab then click “Edit” to change the settings

Step 6.

Select the “Name Servers” tab then click “Edit” to change the settings

Step 7.

Click on the “Save” button to update the pre populated settings

Finished.

When completed the screen will look like this

For adding ns3 to multiple domains please repeat steps 4 - 7

If you have nay questions or comments please email support@velocityhost.com.au with “FEED BACK” in the subject field

The upstream service provider has resolved any issues pertaining to network connectivity.

All services are operating as normal.

Please contact support@velocityhost.com.au if you have any further queries.

Thank you VH Support Team

There are currently upstream network connectivity issues intermittently disrupting the network. Our upstream providers are working on the problem, we will update as soon as we have more information.