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.Mobi Sunrise Sees Big Demand
June 19, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet statistics provider Ipwalk (ipwalk.com) announced on Friday that the new .mobi top-level domain saw a significant number of registrations in the first 48 hours of its sunrise period.
The sunrise period began June 12 and within the first two days a large and diverse number of big brands had secured their trademarks, including Virgin, Target, eBay and Ferrari. According to the .mobi registry, approximately 5,000 domain names were registered during the first two days of the sunrise period, which will last for 70 days.
There was also a short limited industry sunrise period in May where mobile companies and mobile content providers, as well as film and TV companies, like CNN, Fox and Warner Brothers, registered domain names. According to the registry, roughly 2,000 domain names were registered during this period.
"There is a trend among companies to go directly to the consumer," said Alexa Raad, Dotmobi's VP of marketing and business development. "They are opening up the gates, reaching consumers more efficiently. It's all about channel building. These companies want to build their brands beyond the PC or the newspapers."
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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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