Don't jump at the first reasonable host for your Web domain.

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The legislation would give the Justice Department authority to seek court orders to block domain names or search results for sites that are alleged to host pirate content.

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TweakDUN: Improve the speed of your dial-up connection by adjusting the Windows 95 MTU. TweakDUN also lets you create and edit a host file, which can dramatically speed up Web browsing: Instead of contacting a domain name server to look up every IP address, your browser will cache them on your hard drive.

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