web-hosting-top.com hosting news - Jan 2000

European Web hosting and network services company Ebone announced today that it been chosen as the European provider of Web hosting and related infrastructure for the Internet's newest Top Level Domain (TLD): .name.The announcement came following an agreement between the GNR (Global Name Registry) and ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number) to license the world's first for personal domain registration. ICANN selected GNR to develop, maintain and ...

StudyJuly 11, 2001 -- An $11 billion growth opportunity in the telecom market exists despite recent negative reports, according to an IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) study by InfoTech (phillips-infotech.com).Enterprises that manage their own data networks consisting of private lines and frame relay virtual circuits, are entering the initial stage of a transformation to IP VPNs managed by service providers. In the U.S., the market for managed IP VPNs is ...

Managed hosting and colocation provider ViaWest (viawest.net) announced on Tuesday that UCN, Inc. would colocate at its Salt Lake City data center.ViaWest says UCN will colocate its back-end and billing support systems, allowing them to take advantage of ViaWest's state-of-the-art facility and technical resources."We decided to colocate with ViaWest rather than to build our own data center due to the benefits of time and cost savings," says Scott Welch, executive ...

Qwest Communications (qwest.com) has entered into talks with XO Communications (xo.com) after coming up short in its attempt to acquire telecommunications giant MCI (mci.com), according to reports.XO sells voice and data services to businesses and has a significant Web hosting portfolio highlighted by the Concentric (concentric.com) shared Web hosting division. Qwest has been determined to acquire a significant telecommunications asset because it is concerned it will have ...

Web hosting provider HostMySite (hostmysite.com) announced on Monday that it had added free WordPress 1.5 Blog software with all its shared hosting plans and integrated Google Sitemaps into their customer control panel. The blogging capabilities will also be available through the hosting control panel. The company says it researched various different blog publishing platforms and settled on open source WordPress for its powerful features and ability to be integrated into a Web interface.  "We ...

Managed DNS service provider UltraDNS (ultradns.com) announced on Monday that social networking site MySpace.com (myspace.com) had selected UltraDNS's Managed DNS service to support the performance of its site in the face of rapidly increasing traffic.UltraDNS says the deployment has strengthened MySpace's infrastructure to help during its rise to the fourth ranked Web domain in terms of page views, according to data from comScore Media Metrix.The MySpace Web ...

ECommerce Solutions Inc. announced on Monday that it had introduced its complete e-commerce solution Business eStore (businessestore.com).Business eStore gives customers a complete set of tools for building an e-commerce store, including a shopping cart with or without store set up, domain registration, hosting, merchant services, Web design, customer support and more.By providing everything in a single package, the company says, small and medium-sized businesses can focus ...

VMware (vmware.com) announced on Monday that Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation had deployed its virtual infrastructure software to reduce the complexity of its server environment and improve the business continuity of its systems. VMware says a virtual infrastructure strategy enables SMBC to reduce the number of physical servers and server racks in its data center by 62 and 66 percent respectively. SMBC has also been able to eliminate the need for same-type hardware, reduce the ...

Web hosting and domain name registration provider Host Department (hostdepartment.com) announced on Monday that it had launched a new Web design and development service. The service is supported by a team of eleven Web consultants, creative designers and programmers both in-house and overseas. "The diverse, close-knit team has been carefully selected to achieve the optimum balance of skill sets and costs in order to cater to all of our client's online needs, both individual ...

Data center operator and managed hosting provider Terremark (terremark.com) said on Thursday that its NAP of the Americas facility in Miami, Florida ran uninterrupted during and after Hurricane Wilma. In recent weeks power outages have hit regions of Florida during an unprecedented hurricane season. Terremark says its facility has and continues to be fully powered and accessible through its peering partners.  "We designed our infrastructure to withstand a Category 5 force ...