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Lawyers for Repurposed Righthaven Discuss the “Spineful” Hosting Idea

by Liam Eagle - Tuesday, January 31, 2012

January 31, 2012 — Having acquired the domain name of the notoriously litigious Righthaven, the operators of Swiss web hosting company OrtCloud enlisted several notable US copyright and first amendment lawyers in its efforts to create a new hosting business with a “spineful” mandate to treat take-down notices and other legal threats with healthy skepticism.

GlobalOne CEO David Northington Discusses Weblinc Acquisition

by Nicole Henderson - Wednesday, January 25, 2012

January 24, 2011 — Two out of the three past acquisitions by cloud services firm GlobalOne have been of Australia-based companies, signaling an opportunity for growth in the Asia Pacific region for cloud providers, a market that CEO David Northington says is hungry for cloud services.

Q&A: Rackspace’s Suaad Sait Discusses His New Role as Chief Marketing Officer

by Justin Lee - Friday, January 20, 2012

January 20, 2012 — Earlier this month, cloud and web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting appointed Suaad Sait in the company’s newly created position of chief marketing officer. Suaad is a technology marketing veteran of more than 20 years, serving in various marketing roles at Reachforce, Pervasive, Ventix, Liaison Technology and DAZEL.

A Look Inside DreamHost’s Email-Focused Technical Support

by Nicole Henderson - Thursday, January 19, 2012

January 19, 2012 — In an interview with the WHIR, technical support manager for DreamHost Brian Hill says email support has proved to be the most effective for DreamHost’s customer base, and that transparency is critical to keeping its customers happy.

Q&A: ServInt’s Christian Dawson on SOPA, PIPA and the Hosting Industry

by Nicole Henderson - Tuesday, January 17, 2012

January 17, 2012 — The WHIR caught up with Save Hosting co-founder and ServInt chief operating officer Christian Dawson to talk about progress on SOPA and PIPA. In an email interview, Dawson talks about a web host’s role in politics and outlines the next steps in the anti-SOPA/anti-PIPA movement.

Q&A: Afilias SVP and CMO Roland LaPlante on New gTLDs

by Justin Lee - Monday, January 16, 2012

January 16, 2012 — After more than seven years of planning, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will finally expand the domain name server beyond its current 22 available generic top-level domains when it begins accepting applications for new gTLDs on April 12. Last week, ICANN kicked off the long-awaited application process by opening registration via the TLD Application System. Applicants who correctly answer the 50 questions detailed in the Applicant Guidebook and pay the $185,000 fee will be able to register a gTLD of their choice.

OpenSRS’ Michael Goldstein on Reselling Premium Domains

by Justin Lee - Friday, January 13, 2012

January 13, 2012 — or many resellers, the domain aftermarket is a surprisingly untapped market from which they could earn additional revenue. Perhaps one of the leading reasons why some resellers do not include listings for premium domains among their standard domain search results is because they have doubts that any customer would be willing to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars to register a single domain.

Q&A: GlobalSign’s Steve Waite on its SSL Certificate Security Breach Incident

by Nicole Henderson - Wednesday, January 11, 2012

January 11, 2012 — About 24 hours after a hacker claimed to have access to its system, GlobalSign temporarily stopped issuing certificates on September 6, 2011. GlobalSign wasted no time investigating the claims with help from external security investigation firm Fox-IT.

ScienceLogic CTO Antonio Piraino Predicts Web Host Industry Trends for 2012

by Nicole Henderson - Tuesday, January 3, 2012

January 3, 2012 — With a new year comes the desire to make change, and when it comes to web hosting, former VP of research at Tier1 Research and CTO of monitoring firm ScienceLogic Antonio Piraino says that hosting providers will need to make some serious improvements to keep up with where the industry is headed in 2012.

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