I have officially migrated all the domains I own including the gaming community I manage away from GoDaddy whom supports SOPA. Although they stated they took back their support of it, it was found later that wasn't really true. Henceforth I'm now with namecheap.com whom openly apposes SOPA.

For those that do not know what SOPA is, know that its a very draconian act that gives too much power against websites into the wrong hands. Google for more information and google information about NDAA too Obama has just signed into law.

I have released a new mod for fluxbb forums that will check guest's IP addresses against DNSBL online if they are attempting to register on your forums. If any match is found, it'll deny registration which becomes an effective way to stop spam accounts from being created.

I made this out of frustration that image captcha's, question & answer forms, etc. never seeming to stop enough of those spam accounts from being created. This caused me to have to manually approve each account until I discovered a PHP checkdnsrr function that can be used to check against DNS Black Lists online. To my surprise, in my testing most of those spam accounts were indeed listed in one list or another. So the creation of this modification began.

The first release is shown in my projects page and will soon be ported to other web services if not already (i.e. ip.boards, wordpress, etc.).

I've disabled forum signups due to bots. They're everywhere man. Anyway, if you're a friend of mine and would like an account just send me email. Sorry for any inconvenience.

UPDATE: I think I found an efficient way to deal with the forum spam registrations and will be experimenting with it here. For now I've enabled signing up again.