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Best Practices for CC TLDs in your Product Strategy, with epag

March 18, 2010 -- In a bit of an extension of what was covered in the day’s last keynote – presented by InternetX – this somewhat more intimate hosting session covered business practices for hosting providers selling country-code domains, presented by Alexander Schwertner of epag, a domain registrar based in Germany.

Generating New Business through Domain Registration with InterNetX

March 18, 2010 -- In the last keynote presentation of WebhostingDay 2010, Daniel Eisenhut, head of international business development for InterNetX discussed the opportunity of "Generating new business through innovative domain registration".

Integrating Domain Management into Hosting with PartnerGate

March 17, 2010 -- In his presentation, "Make easy domain management an integrated part of your web hosting" held at the Wang Wei room, Christoph Donnemiller, key account director of PartnerGate discussed his company's domain management services and how they can help web hosts sell and manage their domain portfolio.

ICANN Nairobi Wraps With Key Decisions on .XXX and New TLDs

Posted on 2010-03-16

The 37th international ICANN meeting wrapped up last week in Nairboi, Kenya, and some interesting, polarizing decisions were made.

ICANN Formalizes Relationship with the Domain Manager for Papua New Guinea's .PG ccTLD

March 15, 2010 -- The nonprofit body responsible for the assignment of domain names and IP addresses has signed an agreement with the Papua New Guinea University of Technology, which manages the .PG country code top level domain, to formalize its commitment and responsibilities as a domain manager.

VeriSign Plans $300M in Tech Upgrades over 10 Years

March 12, 2010 -- Internet security vendor and domain registry operator VeriSign is planning to spend more than $300 million over the next ten years to upgrade the technology supporting its platform, according to a report published Friday by the Associated Press.

Sex.com Domain up for Auction Next Week

March 12, 2010 -- According to reports issued this week, the domain name Sex.com will be put up for auction next week by its owners, with the bidding set to start at $1 million.

Group NBT Sees Web Hosting and Domain Revenue Growth Over Past Fiscal Half

March 11, 2010 -- Despite a continuing slowdown in new customer acquisition and slower growth in the existing customer base, UK-based domain name and Internet-related services provider Group NBT has reported that its half-year revenue for the period ending December 31, 2009 was £21.69 million ($32.6 million) -- up 13 percent from the same period last year.

eNom Selected as a Registrar for .CO Domain Names

March 10, 2010 -- Domain name wholesaler eNom has become one of only a handful of registrars for .CO domain names.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - Mar. 5, 2010

March 5, 2010 -- There were a handful of web hosting sales and promotions in the first week of March, including free Miva Merchant store skins from WebNet, VPS.NET's upgrade of all its virtual private server clients, and LCN.com's 50-percent-off domains offer.

Netcraft February 2010 Web Server Survey Sees Apache Grow by 1.6M Hostnames

February 25, 2010 -- Having sifted through responses from more than 207 million sites, UK-based Internet services firm Netcraft released the results of its February 2010 web server survey, which found that Apache saw the biggest change with a 1.6 million increase in hostnames, closely followed by Microsoft, which saw a growth of 1.1 million.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - Feb 19, 2010

February 19, 2010 -- With Valentines Day and Presidents Day but a memory, there were only a handful of sales and promo announcements complimenting a great deal of continuing promotions in the week ending February 2010, including SingleHop's unlimited free SSL certificates to resellers, and Virpus Networks' $7 per month VPS promotion.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - Feb 12, 2010

February 12, 2010 -- As both Presidents Day and Valentines Day approach, there have been many sales and promotions to report for the week ending February 12, including Codero's free cPanel promo, Spiral Hosting's .IE domain price cut, a $100 one-time discount from Exabytes, and a free year of hosting from Webhostuk. And as final proof that romance is not dead, LCN.com is offering .ME domain and hosting discounts.

Afilias Acquires .Mobi Domain Registry dotMobi

February 11, 2010 -- Internet infrastructure services provider Afilias has acquired the sponsoring organization and registry operator for the .mobi top-level domain, mTLD Top-Level Domain Ltd., known publicly as dotMobi.

Russian Registrars ISPREG and SBNames Lose ICANN Accreditation

February 10, 2010 -- The not-for-profit body responsible for the assignment of domain names and IP addresses has terminated its Registrar Accreditation Agreements with both ISPREG Ltd and SBNames Ltd for failure to comply with the requirements of the agreement.

Interview with Alex Berry of Neustar.

February 10, 2010 -- WHIR tv had a chance to sit down with Alex Berry, senior vice president and general manager of Neustar's Internet Infrastructure Services group. Check out what he has to say about the company and some of their products in this WHIR tv

DNGLOBE LLC Loses ICANN Accreditation For Failure to Pay Outstanding Fees

February 8, 2010 -- The not-for-profit body responsible for the assignment of domain names and IP addresses has terminated its  Registrar Accreditation Agreement with registrar DNGLOBE LLC for failure to comply with the requirements of the agreement.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - Feb 5, 2010

February 5, 2010 -- Several web hosting sales and promos were announced in the first week of February including a domain discount from Spiral Hosting, a bundle of February promotions from Exabytes, and Webhost.uk.net announced some discounts to go along with its new hosting plan.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - Jan 29, 2010

January 29, 2010 -- As January draws to a close, there were a handful of sales and promos to announce in the web hosting industry. Gogax has cut prices on its dedicated servers, LCN.com has discounted its domains, and WebNet has continued to offer many freebies to new customers.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - Jan 22, 2010

January 22, 2010 -- There were a number of web hosting sales and promos in the week ending January 22, including discounted domains from Webfusion, free domains from LCN.com, and discounted web hosting tutorials from Demowolf.com.

First IDN ccTLD Requests Pass String Evaluation Phase

January 22, 2010 -- In a major step forward for the use of non-Latin-based characters for entire Internet addresses, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has completed its "Fast Track" string evaluation" of four proposed Internationalised Domain Names.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - Jan 15, 2010

January 15, 2010 -- There was a handful of announcements to report in the second Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup as marketing departments get back to business after the winter holidays. Sprial Hosting relaunched its popular free-for-life domain registration, LCN.com said it would give away a free, complimentary .UK domain with the purchase of another, and Exabytes continued its free hosting package upgrade offer.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - Jan 8, 2010

January 8, 2010 -- There were a handful of web host industry sales and promotions in the first full week of 2010, including a shared hosting discount from WebspaceHosting, extended savings on web hosting demos from DemoWolf, and Exabytes offering free upgrades and other discounts.

New Video on WHIR tv - Interview with HostGator.com

Posted on 2010-01-08

Today's video features Lance Custen and Chad Bean from HostGator.com.

CNNIC Suspends New Foreign .CN Registrations Indefinitely

January 6, 2010 -- In its latest attempt to save the reputation of China's domains, the administrative agency responsible for China's Internet affairs, CNNIC, has announced an indefinite suspension all ".CN" registrations from overseas registrars.

ICANN Announces Fellowship Program Selection for Nairobi Meeting

December 18, 2009 -- In an effort to include worldwide input and ideas to create a truly global forum, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will be selecting a handful of bright minds from the developing world to attend its 37th International Public Meeting.

Domain Market Sedo.com Launches Revamped Website

December 14, 2009 -- Domain marketplace and monetization system Sedo announced last week that it had launched a revamped version of its website, the product of an extensive study of employees, community members, focus groups and consultants.

Neustar, OpenDNS Working to Enhance Domain Name System

December 11, 2009 -- Neustar, the organization that operates the UltraDNS product, announced on Thursday that it has collaborated with recursive DNS provider OpenDNS on creating a system that will allow the updating of the domain name system in near real time, using Neustar’s databases to create what the announcement calls the DNS Real-time Directory.

In the Shadow of the Big Brands

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