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April 29, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Managed Web hosting provider The Planet Internet Services (theplanet.com) announced on Thursday that it had recently been accredited as a domain registrar by ICANN (icann.org), the body that oversees the domain name system.
"Receiving ICANN accreditation shows that the industry knows it can expect best in class solutions from The Planet," says Sam Fleitman, vice president of information systems for The Planet. "It extends our offerings to cover even more of customers' end-to-end hosting needs."
The Planet is currently offering .com and .net domains for $5.99 per year and will soon offer additional top-level domains such as .org, .biz, .info and .us.
The company says it is making the services available today through Orbit, its customer portal, where customers can manage their domains, and access domain-related services. Unlimited e-mail forwarding, forwarding to any Web site and URL masking for redirecting domain names will soon be added, the company says.
EV1Servers (ev1servers.net) recently received ICANN accreditation. In recent months, some of the industry's largest players have become ICANN-accredited registrars.
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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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