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I previously blogged about displaying your email address as an image to prevent comment spam on your blog. The downside with that popular utility was that it only displayed your email address from a known ISP such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo etc. But how about something that you would like to use for your own blog such as ryan at techcounter.com Well, I first thought I could code it up but why reinvent the wheel. I had Google search pretty hard for it though to find a good source. Turns out there exists an email image button generator or rather a text to image generator.

Using this Email Image Generator, you can display any email address as an image for you to use on your blog or website and help reduce comment spam greatly.

You can choose your font, font size, the color of the text as well as the image background to generate images that match the theme of your blog. You can see it in action in my contact page.

To generate an Email Image for your blog

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One of the biggest issues having a blog is dealing with comment spam. Email harvesters crawl your blog like search engines and find and extract email addresses from web pages. An Email address always contains an @ symbol. These email harvesters do a pattern search for a combination that looks like abc@xyz.com in the HTML source of your web pages. So how to keep your email address visible to humans and your blog visitors but keep them invisible to email spiders.

One of the best methods I find is replacing the email message from text to an image. This results in your email being visible to your blog visitors but invisible to spam bots. There are many other ways which you can use to prevent your email from being spammed and how to hide your email address from spammers.

For now, I will share with you an E-Mail Icon generator which creates an Image Icon of your Email Address. You can use this email image for displaying your email address in your blog.

Some of the example email icons

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I just noticed this while researching for another article. I looked up whois information on Microsoft at whois.net and guess what I see

[whois.crsnic.net]

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZ.MORE.DETAILS.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZ.IS.0WNED.AND.HAX0RED.BY.SUB7.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.SLAPPED.IN.THE.FACE.BY.MY.BLUE.VEINED.SPANNER.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.WAREZ.AT.TOPLIST.GULLI.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.TOTALLY.SUCKS.S3U.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.SMELLS.SIMPLECODES.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.RAWKZ.MUH.WERLD.MENTALFLOSS.CA
MICROSOFT.COM.OHMYGODITBURNS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.LOVES.ME.KOSMAL.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.LIVES.AT.SHAUNEWING.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.YEPPA.ORG
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.AS.COOL.AS.SIMPLECODES.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.IN.BED.WITH.CURTYV.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.GOD.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.STEAMING.HEAP.OF.FUCKING-BULLSHIT.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.MESS.TIMPORTER.CO.UK
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.ITS.OWN.CRACKLAB.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.A.PRESENT.COMING.FROM.HUGHESMISSILES.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.DRINKS.LISTERINE.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.CAN.GO.FUCK.ITSELF.AT.SECZY.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.ARE.GODDAMN.PIGFUCKERS.NET.NS-NOT-IN-SERVICE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.AND.MINDSUCK.BOTH.SUCK.HUGE.ONES.AT.EXEGETE.NET
MICROSOFT.COM

To single out one record, look it up with “xxx”, where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with “=xxx” to receive a full display for each record.
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 31 May 2007 10:17:25 UTC <<<

Popularity: 17% [?]