February 10, 2012 — In the week ending February 10, 2012, there were a few promotions carried over from last week as well as one love-themed promotion just in time for Valentine’s Day. Action Web Group launched its Sweetheart Special, Asphosting.com.au is offering a 20 percent discount on its reseller hosting plans, WestHost is continuing to offer .CO domains at a discounted rate and A2 Hosting offers its Core VPS Hosting package for $1.

February 10, 2012 — Bandwidth connectivity solutions provider AboveNet announced on Tuesday it has named Michael Tighe its new vice president of marketing. AboveNet’s private optical network delivers network and IP services in and among some of the largest hosting providers and data center operators in the US and European markets.

February 10, 2012 — – Open source web content management provider DotNetNuke announced on Friday it has launched its newly redesigned DotNetNuke Store, intended for developers to purchase modules, skins, and application extensions for the DotNetNuke platform.

February 10, 2012 — Managed web server provider SevenL Networks has attained the 7L.com domain name for an undisclosed amount from a private owner to rebrand its company. According to the press release, negotiations were prolonged as it was hard to reach an agreement on the price of the domain with the previous owner.

February 10, 2012 — – IT services firm Verne Global announced this week it has officially opened its first data center in Reykjanesbær, formerly a US Naval Air Station, just west of Reykjavik, Iceland. The 1,640 square foot data center, whose cost is estimated at $700 million, sits on 45 acres of land.

February 10, 2012 — Cloud and managed hosting provider iomart announced on Thursday that it has carried out a group-wide virtualization for UK government office supply provider office2office. According to the press release, prior to this, o2o’s IT was focused on a single set of offices and one server room in Norwich.

February 10, 2012 — Data center operator Telx announced has announced new details about its upcoming flagship 215,000-square-foot, three-story data center at 2 Peekay Drive in Clifton, New Jersey, which is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2012.

February 10, 2012 — Web hosting provider ZNet Technologies announced on Friday that it has released a new website WHMCSExtras to offer web hosts WHMCS addons. ZNet says WHMCSExtras focuses on enhancing the WHMCS billing platform with four Admin area addons, including a renewal addon, upsell addon, partner addon and client profile addon.

February 10, 2012 — An Iowa state economic development official said Thursday that the state is competing with Nebraska for a $1.2 billion data center project dubbed “Project Edge”. The company hopes to break ground in May, with an initial first phase investment of $500 million.

February 10, 2012 — Telecommunications provider Cincinnati Bell announced on Friday its plans to restructure or acquire financing for its data center division, operated by colocation firm CyrusOne. Cincinnati Bell acquired CyrusOne in June 2010 for $525 million to bolster its data center and colocation business. In 2011, CyrusOne generated revenues of approximately $185 million.

February 10, 2012 — Cloud and managed hosting provider iomart announced on Thursday that it has carried out a group-wide virtualization for UK government office supply provider office2office. According to the press release, prior to this, o2o’s IT was focused on a single set of offices and one server room in Norwich.

February 8, 2012 — Email security provider eleven announced on Wednesday that it has seen explosive growth of phishing email in December and January. According to the report, phishing email’s share surged by 194 percent in December, and by a further 214 percent in January.

February 8, 2012 — Data center operator Digital Realty Trust announced on Wednesday it has acquired a 10-acre development site in Dublin, Ireland. The move follows last month’s acquisitions of data centers in San Franciso and Atlanta. Located 9.3 miles outside of Dublin, the data center is located in Profile Park. It will have 11.5 MW of power across four buildings spanning about 193,000 square feet of space.

February 6, 2012 — UK web hosting provider Eukhost announced on Monday it is now offering SSL certificates on a monthly billing term with free malware monitoring. Eukhost said its SSL certificates are designed for a wide scope of users ranging from SME’s to large incorporations that have an ecommerce business.

February 3, 2012 — Web hosting provider iomart has asked the UK government to enforce the purchase of software products that protect children for public sector organizations responsible for childcare.iomart suggests that organizations implement software products that have been awarded the BSI Kitemark for Child Online Saftey, which its web security software Netintelligence has received, and is the “first and only such software” to do so.

February 3, 2012 — UK web hosting provider Attenda announced on Friday the details of its cloud security strategy, which is to play a key role in the delivery of innovative and market leading cloud services to clients. To support this new strategy, the company has appointed a director of security.

February 3, 2012 — Luxembourg-based domain name registrar KeyDrive S.A. announced on Friday it has acquired the Moniker and SnapNames business units of online marketing firm Oversee. The terms of the deal were not disclosed in the press release.

February 2, 2012 — loud hosting provider Host Virtual announced on Wednesday it is expanding its Cloud Service in London, UK. Located in the London Docklands, the expansion into Telecity Sovereign House provides a premier, Tier 3 carrier class hotel as the basis for the Host Virtual service.

February 2, 2012 — Irish-based European web hosting provider Blacknight announced on Wednesday that 40,000 of its customers may have been affected in a security breach on Tuesday. In a press release, Blacknight says no financial data was exposed in Tuesday’s breach, but client contact details including email addresses and telephone numbers were leaked. Overall, Blacknight calls the damage minimal.

January 30, 2012 — Email security provider SpamExperts announced on Monday that web host and domain name registrar Hostnet has implemented its inbound and outbound email filtering service on its network. This announcement comes a week after SpamExperts launched its new website in five languages: English, Dutch, German, Portuguese and Spanish.