The Google DNS servers can resolve it (and seem to be much faster than OpenDNS lately). Should be possible set up your machine to use alternative or additional DNS servers despite your network.

The instructions for Mac and the other OSs are here. Mac instructions are for 10.5 but 10.6 is the same and it works again.

This is an alternative to messing about with hosts files.

Thanks! Good alternative, didnt think of it. 

Many sites change hosts but this is the only one which can not get DNS resolved for over a month. Imagine if IS or SS changes to this server? LOL.

Leaf, perhaps it's time change to another server again?

lol yeah i thought the same... but remember SS, IS, etc pay lots and lots of money for their servers and continuous presence and so on, and this is a free site with a small web hosting and so we may not complain. leaf is the best! 

I can open Text Edit and edit the file, I just don't know where to find the file.

According to the descriptions I have read it is in /etc/hosts or /private/etc/hosts.

I'm happy if I can help you. Sorry that I am not a mac guy (girl  ).

Question. What do I open it with and what do I save it as once it is edited?

If you are on Windows, here is how to open the file:

1) First of all make a backup of the file, which means copy it and save it as HOSTS.bak or similar.

2) You can open the file with Notepad (in Windows) or any other simple text editor.

Win XP:
Open Notepad when you are an administrative user on the computer.

Win Vista / Win 7:
Open Notepad with Administrative privileges by clicking Start, All Programs, Accessories, and then right-click Notepad and select to open as Administrator.
 
3) In Notepad, choose File-Open and navigate to the path of the hosts file at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and open the file.

4) Add the lines as in the description.

5) Click save.

6) Reboot Windows.

I think I'll add this to the other description I made. :-)

Simone

I am just a newbie. But I'd suggest more exposure to get the light-weight look that all the stock pictures have in common. When you look at it it must pop out and feel good immediately. Turn up exposure a bit and don't stay on the cold side of colors, and turn up vibrance a bit (don't exagerate...). something like this: https://secure.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-10784480-stuffed-pork-tenderloin-roast-with-asparagus.php (even if this is just a bad example).
i can't tell much for the shadows and stuff because I am on an uncalibrated monitor at the moment.
Also I think the others are right, the plate is better white or some uniform color, maybe even a colorful plate like yellow could make it work but i dont know.
I find that the background things are a bit disturbing, but that's maybe just my taste.
Then you can also think about variations that make the picture interesting, such as a few cut slices with some red meat shown, or show a hand in the picture with the knife while cutting, a fork that takes one slice, someone taking it with heat-resistant gloves out of the oven, a hand adding a small piece of parsil as decoration on top or at a side as a final touch, and so on and on and on. These small details sometimes make the picture dynamic and interesting and not just plain and one-dimensional. The more dynamic pictures can tell a story and relate to a concept such in this case cooking, gourmet-stuff, but possibly also living at home, family, etc. When you take a picture, think of who might buy it, and in which ways it might be used, and you will find the story it must tell. :-)
you can type roastbeef into istock and see what others have done for example.
well i am just a beginner so don't consider too much what i am saying.
Good luck, I like your picture. :-)
Just have fun, try it, don't look at money, just enjoy and learn from this experience.

Simone

EDIT:
I forgot to say that most of these pictures are made with good lightning, such as strobe lights or off-camera speedlights. In the link i sent here you can see that there is a light source from the left, and one from the right/front and maybe others. These lights make a lot of difference in the pictures. If you have an off-camera flash you can do a lot of things with that. If not you can still use as first tries some lights you have around in the house (but don't mix warm and cool lights...). I am not a lighting expert (not at all!!), it was to tell you what makes a big part of the difference for those great popping pictures we find in magazines and websites. Experimenting with light is for me one of the most exciting aspects of photography.

PhD. studies, music (guitar, voice, etc), nature, national parks, camping, computers, books, travelling

I just wrote a more detailed procedure how to solve this problem.
http://www.microstockgroup.com/site-related/isp-can't-find-site-since-changeover/
Hope it helps! :-)

OK so I thought I'd make a small summary of the hosts procedure. If you are interested in what is happening, read this paragraph - otherwise just skip it and go directly to the procedure below.  

Explanation:

Essentially the problem here is the DNS (Domain Name Service). It is usually used to map internet domain name addresses (such as google.com) to IPs (such as 192.168.1.0). So whenever you type www.google.com into your browser, the DNS looks for the IP, and only then can the webpage be opened, because the computers and machines only understand numbers, but for us users it would be kind of hard to remember all those IP addresses instead of memorizable words.
Now there is not only one such DNS server/lookup table in the whole internet, because it would be very slow if all the time for any user it would look in the same table on the same server. Poor server. That's why there are copies all around the world in different DNS servers.
So when you move a site, it means that you keep your same domain name but want to point it to another IP address. This is first stored in only one DNS server, the one of your hosting service, and only with time the new information propagates to all other DNS servers all over the world. Usually it takes about 24-72 hours, but it can also take longer.
It seems that in our particular case there is something like this going on, so that sometimes when you open www.microstockgroup.com, you open the old IP address and get sent to the old address.

So, essentially what you can do is entering the IP numeric address of the microstockgroup site into your own computer, so that the computer doesn't even ask the DNS servers for the IP address but directly takes this information from a file in your computer. This file is called hosts file, and when you enter the correspondence of the microstockgroup website's domain name and its IP into this file, it should theoretically always take you to the right page.


Procedure:

Windows:

1) Navigate to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. First of all make a backup of the HOSTS file, which means copy it and save it as HOSTS.bak or similar.

2) You can open the file with Notepad (in Windows) or any other simple text editor.

• Win XP:
  Open Notepad when you are an administrative user on the computer.
  
  
• Win Vista / Win 7:
  Open Notepad with Administrative privileges by clicking Start, All Programs, Accessories, and then right-click Notepad and select to open as Administrator.

 
3) In Notepad, choose File-Open and navigate to the path of the hosts file at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and open the file.

4) Add the following lines:

205.134.239.191 microstockgroup.com
205.134.239.191 blog.microstockgroup.com
205.134.239.191 www.microstockgroup.com

5) Click save.

6) Reboot.


Linux:

Open /etc/hosts as root:
sudo gedit /etc/hosts in Ubuntu for example

and insert the following:

205.134.239.191 microstockgroup.com
205.134.239.191 blog.microstockgroup.com
205.134.239.191 www.microstockgroup.com

No need to reboot usually.


Mac:

Mac OS X 10.2 or later:

On OS 10.5.8 Leopard:
Log on with admin rights.
At the top menu bar, use the Go menu.
Go > go to folder > type      /private/etc
Find the hosts file (there are a couple, you only want just plain hosts) Drag it to your desktop. Double click to open (will open in TextEdit)
Add microstock groups IP addresses:

205.134.239.191 microstockgroup.com
205.134.239.191 blog.microstockgroup.com
205.134.239.191 www.microstockgroup.com

Save your file on the desktop with no extension
Drag file back to etc folder
It will say it can't be overwritten, but there is an Authenticate button. Click that. Enter your password. Done.

A detailed different description for OS X 10.5 is given here: http://rag.nu/2008/07/06/edit-hosts-file-in-mac-os-x-105-leopard/

Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.1.5:
follow description in http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27291

I am also quite new and with a few agencies now. I'd recommend Dreamstime. There is no entry exam, and you learn a lot. Fotolia doesn't have an exam either but the feedback and all other things there are not so explicative.

Dear everyone,

I am sorry for this message. But all this tax thing has made me thoroughly confused, and so I would like to ask you guys for what I have to do in my simple case with all these forms and ITIN and so on.
I live in Canada, currently I have stated Canada in my Fotolia account. I am Austrian, so I could also switch it to Austria.
What is better, where do I have to do what and pay which taxes...? Which is the better choice?

Sorry to ask so boldly but I just can't see through it :-(.

Simone

Are they really of no use? It really takes a loooong time to categorize all those pictures. If at least categories were the same for all agencies and we could store it with the IPTC data...

I guess most people just type keywords and use categories only in special cases were too many nonsense results show up that fall into another category, or when one concept may mean two different things so that it can be filtered with categories.

123RF has no categories.

Hi Race,

I am like you more a canoer than a kayaker. i have tried kayak twice or so and the ones i had (rental kayaks) were stable. we were on lakes, we didn't dip, in the worst case you might just not get forward because of bad technique or running in a circle. lol.... but there was no problem of stability. but i don't know which canoe it was, probably a very much beginner one as it was a rental canoe in a national park in Canada.

sorry for the non-technical answer, i just thought maybe you like to hear it. 

Simone