DNSreport.com is a great tool for quickly analyzing a domain name registration and setup.
I have personally used it for many years, and still use it almost daily to check various domain names etc.

However about a year ago DNSreport.com became a paid service.
I perfectly understand that they need to finance their servers etc. and I am happy to pay the membership fee, especially since I use it as much as I do.
But a lot of people were unhappy about this because they didn't use the service enough to justify paying for a membership, and there weren't any good alternatives around.

Simple DNS Plus users have often asked us to provide a similar service or tool - or if we knew of any alternatives.
We do provide several free on-line DNS diagnostics tools - see http://www.simpledns.com/addons.aspx#online
But nothing as comprehensive as DNSreport.com.

Today I stumbled on a web-site called "intoDNS.com" which provides a free domain name report very similar to DNSreport.com.
The site is still in beta but looks very promising.

So if you can't justify paying for DNSreport.com - check out http://www.intoDNS.com

Just noticed that my favorite add-in for VS2005, Smart Paster by Alex Papadimoulis, is now also available for VS2008.

With this add-in you can paste text from the Windows clipboard into the Visual Studio source code editor formatted as a comment, quoted string, or string builder code just by right-clicking and selecting "Paste As..." from the pop-up menu:

This is just a fantastic time saver.

However the VS2008 version of the add-in only came as source code and had no instructions for installing it.
So for anyone else looking for this wonderful add-in, here's the compiled version:
SmartPaster2008bin.zip (27.13 kb)

To install it, un-zip above to:
Vista/2008: C:\Users\<user-name>\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Addins
Earlier Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Addins

Then restart Visual Studio 2008 and update settings for the Add-In in the Tools menu / Add-In Manager.