I just got an email from XavierMail.com notifying me of a new service they have implemented in their email service. It's called registered email and lets you send email in a similar way to registered letters. This service will let you find out if the email you just sent reached the recipient.

Here's the email I got from XavierMail.com:

Critical Messaging Services

Do you ever wonder if your emails reached the intended recipient? Are there times when you need legal and verifiable proof that an email did in fact reach the recipient?

Everyone.net understands the importance of messaging and has partnered with RPost to deliver Registered E-mail services.

Registered E-mail provides a high-value outbound messaging tool that is built into your Web Mail interface. The service is used by a broad range of individuals and organizations including agencies within the U.S. Government.

What is Registered E-mail?

Unlike the common 'read receipt', Registered E-mail provides legal and verifiable evidence of the content and time an email was sent and received by anyone, anywhere in the world. The service is designed to protect you when the delivery, content or time of an email is disputed, in addition to enhancing efficiency and cost-savings. Save time, money, and headaches - all for about the cost of a postage stamp per email!

Free Trial

Registered E-mail is a value-added messaging service that will be available in your Web Mail over the course of the next 30 days. Once available, you will automatically receive a free, no-obligation, 10-unit trial. Simply check the "Send Registered" check box on the Compose Page of Web Mail to use. Additional units can be purchased in various configurations.

Visit XavierMail.com to sign up for your own email address.

How do you do to win this weeks contest? Since you're allowed to ask for recommendations in your blog like Problogger did according to an email from EntreCard, we're going to randomly select a winner among all recommendations for our blog.

Email from EntreCard:
This is alright. What we were upset about was people using the message system to spam people asking to exchange recommendations. It's ok if its through your own blog, because its marketed towards your own readers who would likely recommend you anyway. I probably should have drawn that distinction in the post.

So on the 1st of February I'm selecting one lucky winner of 700 EntreCard credits among all recommendations for Xavier Media blog over at EntreCard. Just follow this link to write your recommendation for this blog.

The winner in last weeks contest

The winner in last weeks contest is Wogan May. Congratulations and good luck with your forum

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eXavier.com has added the ability to register domain names with international characters. This now gives people using non-Latin languages like Arabic of Greek or languages with diacritics the chance to register a domain using their native alphabet.

Registrations with international characters are made possible thanks to a system called Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). IDNA provides compatibility by converting the domains with international characters into a series of ASCII characters that the current DNS system understands. IDNA works on all of the current major browsers with one exception. A domain using IDNA is not compatible with Internet Explorer 6 without a browser plugin.

By allowing users the ability to access a site using their own language and alphabet the IDNA system has opened up a variety of website possibilities. These new domain options are a great benefit for people who arent used to using English or struggle with English syntax. It would be a great solution for any country or culturally specific web site because it creates an instant connection between the site and its users through the language used in the domain.

This is also a great opportunity to get common word domains that are no longer available using the current English alphabet. Expect a small rush as the foreign equivalents of popular English words are snapped up as fast as possible.

On the flip side, by allowing internationalized domains the Internet has become more susceptible to phishing attacks and security hazards. A combination of international characters and those from the Latin alphabet can be used to create domains similar enough to pre-existing domains to confuse users.

If an internationalized domain is something youd be interested in youll want to check them out at eXaviers new international domain registration site. You can get a .com or .net domain name in over 100 different languages.