Domain marketplace Sedo has acquired a domain parking service RevenueDirect, previously owned by Dotster. This acquisition increases Sedo’s North American market share of domain services due to RevenueDirect’s large inventory and registrar presence. In exchange, RevenueDirect customers will be able to use Sedo’s monetization features.
In these challenging times for our world economy, some web hosts are choosing to honor their customers and some are choosing to honor their bottom line. A great example of this is the comparison of Fasthosts to Webfusion. Both of these UK-based web hosts are geared toward the economically-minded small business owner. They both offer […]
A new $7 billion initiative to optimize its Nehalem server line has been announced by Intel. The company hopes to revamp a cloud computing motherboard that consumes only 85 watts in idle mode, which could save up to $8 billion in three years if deployed on 50,000 servers.
Teraco has opened a data center in Cape Town, South Africa. It is the first vendor neutral data center in Cape Town and it also the first of its kind in the country. In the past, outsourced data center facilities in South Africa have been supplied by large IT outsourcing companies and ISPs.
According to hosting industry researcher, WebHosting.Info, 1&1 is now the 4th largest web host in the U.S. It has shoved Yahoo! out of the way as the more prolific web host of the two. In my estimation, it’s not a big feat to overtake Yahoo! as a web host. Yahoo! regularly practices bait and switch, […]
Domain registrar Go Daddy has expanded their Science & Technology complex at Scottsdale Airpark by 21,000 square foot. The company rewarded top employees with cash prizes and one-year mortgage payments in their “expansion party” which was attended by local government officials and Candice Michelle (the GoDaddy Girl) who signed autographs at the event.
A new wave of phishing attacks, which initiated on February 10, target eBay members’ websites. The attack steal credentials from victims using a fake login. As of today, the fake eBay login forms can still be accessed on affected wildcard domains. The attack takes advantage of a cross-site scripting vulnerability on sites that use a […]
With the re-entry into the reseller market Hostway has announced “Tango” – a program designed to provide resellers with an all-inclusive reseller platform. Tango is targeted to web design firms, dedicated hosting resellers, and small internet service providers.
Now available, web hosting from the company we all love to hate: Microsoft. Microsoft Office Live Small Business is offering a year of free top level domain registration along with web hosting. When’s the last time Microsoft ever offered anything for free? It’s a miracle! Or is it?
The usa.kaspersky.com domain has been hacked but security solutions provider Kaspersky Lab confirmed that no sensitive sensitive data was compromised. The support section of the site was hacked by several attackers with IP addresses from Romanian ISPs. The attackers notified the company of an executed SQL injection through public email boxes and gave a one […]
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