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February 25, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy (godaddy.com) announced on Monday that its network of registrars have become one of the first to back-up all of their customer information with an outside data storage firm under new regulations set forth by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (icann.org).
The Registrar Data Escrow program is an ICANN initiative designed to protect consumers from losing control of their domain names in the off change their registrars lose their accreditation or go defunct. It requires all registrars to deposit a copy of their registration databases each week, with high-volume registrars depositing incremental updates daily, says the organization.
Go Daddy says that although it had already been actively backing up its domain customers' data, escrowing with ICANN provides an additional layer of security, while also setting a good example for the registrar community.
"By getting industry leaders, such as Go Daddy, on board early in the process, our testing with large volumes of data is streamlined," says John Boruvka, vice president of Iron Mountain's Intellectual Property Management services. "Go Daddy's participation has been key to ICANN's rollout of the Registrar Data Escrow program."
Go Daddy's headquarters were also recently visited by Prince Andrew as part of a trip designed to improve economic ties between Britain and the US.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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